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Whirling Blade Exarch wrote:Dan Abnett. love his writing. period

If he were to write an eldar novel, I would personally make it a bestseller.

It subscribes to the idea that the Alien mind is unknowable and should remain so. However, the eldar were pretty cool in "Ghostmaker".

I love a lot of these books but my absolute favorite is Necropolis mainly because i freaking love cityfights, Cadian Blood and Gun Heads are a close joint second.

It must be so difficult to write a decent Eldar novel, and as for Orks, well what could you write about? The only thing driving them is their love of fighting. Now that the new DE are out Ive got my fingers crossed for a novel about them, it would be realy cool learning about the port of lost souls. I loved the short story in Tales of Heresy about SW v DE. The Space Wolves absolutly annaiolate them!

Never read that one, Titanicus but it just seems a little drawn out from the story, least from the little skim through. Seems like alot of it takes place inside the titan. Though dont listen to me I've not read it completely. Got a spoiler ?

Read nemesis by any chance ?

I've just finished Nemesis. Its an awsome book, Spear is one scary dude! The Garantine rocks aswell.

Just putting it out there, I tried reading the first HH novel (dont even remember the name) and it made absolutely no sense, it put me off the entire horus heresy series.

Later, I came back, picked up the same book, thinking I might have just been stupid that day, and the book still made no sense.

I gave it one last chance, and skipped to a random chapter, which obviously I would have no idea what it was talking about, but still, the book made no sense, not even grammatical. Idk what everyone else thinks, but that part at the start about the ...space wolf laughing about how "he" killed the emperor or something?! what is that!

It portrays the space marines as some kind of bikey gang / barmen who drink bear, fart, shoot automatic rocket launchers and team kill each other!

Horus Rising is an amazing book! That is a Lunar wolf Tarik toragaddon I think, I can't quite remeber, talking about when he was there when Horus killed the emperor of a World that is under compliance. Its not about killing the actuall Emperor. I don't think you got into the story enough, it doesnt portray the space marines as you say some kind biker gang, they are noble, reserved, honrable and well spoken.


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And the Lunar Wolves ROCK!


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Trust me. It is a Realy good read.

nickmund wrote:Horus Rising is an amazing book! That is a Lunar wolf Tarik toragaddon I think, I can't quite remeber, talking about when he was there when Horus killed the emperor of a World that is under compliance. Its not about killing the actuall Emperor. I don't think you got into the story enough, it doesnt portray the space marines as you say some kind biker gang, they are noble, reserved, honrable and well spoken.


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And the Lunar Wolves ROCK!


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Trust me. It is a Realy good read.

i can secound that i just finished it and it was amazing

such a great read and such a thought producing ending

croggy wrote:

nickmund wrote:Horus Rising is an amazing book! That is a Lunar wolf Tarik toragaddon I think, I can't quite remeber, talking about when he was there when Horus killed the emperor of a World that is under compliance. Its not about killing the actuall Emperor. I don't think you got into the story enough, it doesnt portray the space marines as you say some kind biker gang, they are noble, reserved, honrable and well spoken.


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And the Lunar Wolves ROCK!


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Trust me. It is a Realy good read.

i can secound that i just finished it and it was amazing

such a great read and such a thought producing ending

It is the perfect start to the series, Ive read every book in order, and I recommend reading them that way. Its such an epic saga. Who says Star Wars is the best sci-fi saga going? Its a load of bull compared to the Heresy.

That's cuz you guys read 3 consecutive chapters unlike the guy up there that just read 5 pages gave up and read 5 more pages in the middle of the book. Apparently that makes the book not make sense - whodathunkit?

Yup. Though personally I cant stop reading them ones I've started. I Don't realy think I've ever picked up a bad 40k book, they are all pretty good. The fluff in the Codexis is ace too.

Wow, thats a lot of options! This is definetley a hard chose, but I am going to have to go with the first book in the Eisenhorn trilogy. It was the first black library book I read, and about 15 books later, I think it is still the best.

One of the first I read too, I read Ravenor Returned, first. Both my favorites. If you realy liked Eisenhorn you should read Emperors Mercy, by Henry Zou.

The Eisenhorn omnibus had me captivated from cover to cover. One of the best of books from BL i say. Though ime torn between that and Nemesis from the HH.

Gotta read Mechanicum and A Thousand Sons next.

Though any thoughts on the Grey Knights Omnibus ?

Its pretty good, it starts off quite slowly, but once you get into it, its a good read.

Fulgrim anyone? any good?



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Oh and just for my own curiosity what is the first HH novel ?

There are a few here but i think its more like a random selection .

The first HH novel is Horus Rising, then False Gods, they are in order on the poll.
Fulgrim is my favorite HH novel, its epic and engrossing all the way through.

Gaunt's Ghost in its entirety... is amazing....

voted for the first 40K book i read more than once (The Saint- Gaunt's Ghosts)

Suprisingly, I have never read a Gaunts ghosts novel. I was going to borrow my friends omnibus but he lost it somehow.

Well at least Titanicus got 10 votes. I thought it was excellent.

I've heard mixed reviews about it. Its probably on my list of ones to read, after so many people voted for it.

Seriously, how long did it take you to write all those titles.

I copied and pasted them.



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It still took a long time though.

Could not vote for a single book.I love the Eisenhorn trilogy / Souldrinkers series / Ravenor trilogy,to name but a few.

Hey man you forgot ... actually, no you didn't

I voted Daemon World. Excellent story, excellent characters and a true insight into the feelings of a Slaanesh worshiper.

I see a lot of love for Fulgrim, as an Emperors Children fan I was left really disappointed by this. Didn't seem to do enough justice to their fall. I really preferred the IA, WD and StD take on this over the book.

I don't read any 40k novels. The writing appears a bit dire.

The writing isnt dire compared to somthing like the da vinci code, and everyone seems to love that dribble.


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There are some realy good BL authors, Dan Abnett is realy good, so is Graham McNeil, Henry Zou, Ben Counter.

Phototoxin wrote:I don't read any 40k novels. The writing appears a bit dire.

Thats a shame, nearly all those books are really good and written well enough to create some good imaginations. Such good visuals of the 40K universe.

You should try one, one of the HH series for a start.

You got that right.

Titanicus. A lot of action and gives depth to the mechanicum and titan legions.