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I'm looking for some more good WH40K reading and was wondering what the opinion on Graham McNeill's Uriel Ventris novels are. Also, I know that Deathwatch was written by C.S. Goto, but is it any good? Or is that just a silly question?

Green Blow Fly wrote:I am a big fan of the Uriel Ventris novels... the fourth one is so so but hopefully the next one will pick up the pace. I find it very funny that a lot of Smurf players totally HATE Uriel.

Why the hate for Uriel from the UM players? I mean, I understand that he went outside the Astartes in one of the novels, but is that the reason for the hate?

Green Blow Fly wrote:The DW novels are so so at best.

I've generally avoided C.S. Goto's stuff because of all the bad reviews I've seen of his stuff. This sounds about the same.

Jazz is for Losers wrote:Ben Counter wrote a great novel for BL called Daemon World (I really liked it anyway), nothing else he's ever written for them comes close. Hell, even the BL forum crew mostly dislike Grey Knights.

Ben Counter's books are another set that I'd be somewhat interested in as I've been a fan of the GK since the RT-era Realm of Chaos books, but similar to Goto, I haven't heard much good about his stuff. Daemonworld's okay, though?

I did a search on Amazon for it and it came up blank - nice to hear that BL is going to be reprinting it. Comparing it to the Eisenhorn Trilogy is certainly high praise (at least in my eyes, though I know others have lower opinions of Abnett's stuff). I'll have to be on the lookout for it.

*EDIT* Huh. Okay, now I want to know more about Golgoth and the mysterious hermit. Interesting stuff. Thanks, HF.