I couldn't have imagined a more pathetic turn for Luke.

Seriously I couldn't have imaged a more uninteresting, stupid outcome for the Luke character. That is what they thought up? That? So many Star Wars novels with new adventures for Luke but they came up with a bitter hermit, sucking space cow milk and never leaving the island again?

They should have just left the old characters out and begun the saga 50-100 years after Jedi.