Like I've mentioned, I'm a big fan of military sci-fi, so Crix Madine, founder of Alliance Special Forces has always been "the dude." And to have him get taken down by some two-bit wannabe villains like a bunch of Hutts thinking they could make a powerplay with a cheap Death Star knock-off built by the lowest bidder?
CUE NERD RAGE.
Then again, most of KJA's novels ended up being stripped down to the same core concepts. Poor villains, half-baked superweapons... I mean, Daala and her Death Star prototype? Then the Sun Crusher? Then the Hutts and the Darksaber? Urk.
And I wasn't a huge fan of Canderous. I respected the man, but then again, pretty much all my KotOR characters were light-siders, so they never really had all that much in common with the Candy-man, and even less when he took on the Mandalore identity.
He seemed too much the thug and not enough the honorable warrior, I guess. At least, he did in the first game. Got better in the second game.