Best 40k Novel, you decide

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**nickmund**

Bonegrinder wrote:Next time you make a hugh poll could you make it into alphabetical order, just for our own convenience.

I have only read the space wolf saga books and A Thousand Sons and A Thousand Sons blew my socks off, loved it!

That would've taken hours, it took me long enough as it is.

**Bonegrinder**

Ordo Dakka wrote:The Grey Knights and Ultramarines were generally terrible IMO.

Can't comment on the Ultramarine books but I agree with you on the Grey Knights, got the omnibus and had to put it down for good only after 5 chapters

could cure insomnia

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nickmund wrote:
Bonegrinder wrote:Next time you make a hugh poll could you make it into alphabetical order, just for our own convenience.

I have only read the space wolf saga books and A Thousand Sons and A Thousand Sons blew my socks off, loved it!

That would've taken hours, it took me long enough as it is.

Fair dues.

**Badgerous One**

Execution Hour, or as i like to think of it The 40k Movie that will never be. It has everything hell i wouldn't mind if hollywood threw in a little side love story for Mister ulanti or Captain Semper... or hell made them into a love story lol

**nickmund**

Bonegrinder wrote:
Ordo Dakka wrote:The Grey Knights and Ultramarines were generally terrible IMO.

Can't comment on the Ultramarine books but I agree with you on the Grey Knights, got the omnibus and had to put it down for good only after 5 chapters could cure insomnia .

The GK omnibus does start off pretty slow, you just have to persevere with it I guess. There are some cool bits in there, but i agree it can be boring at times, especially the beginning which is'nt realy good if you want to sell novels.

**Grey Templar**

man, i really liked the GK omnibus.

course i read LotR when i was 8.

**nickmund**

Grey Templar wrote:man, i really liked the GK omnibus.

course i read LotR when i was 8.

Damn thats good going, 3000 pages or somthing isnt it?

**Grey Templar**

3137 IIRC

then there is the Appendices.

**croggy**

none of them rogue trader is da bestest

**Eyclonus**

Grey Templar wrote:3137 IIRC

then there is the Appendices.

And then to get the right idea regarding the context, there is the Silmarillion.

**nickmund**

They are good books I just dont like how Tolkien goes on and on trying to descirbe a single thing with about ten paragraphs.

I absolutly love the hobbit though. I read that when i was about 8 too, not such a demanding read though.

Funny thing is the Priest at my local church is J.R.R Tolkiens grandson.

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ooh, its a battle between Fulgrim and Magnus at the moment, who will prevail?

**KamikazeCanuck**

Wow that list must have taken a while....

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nickmund wrote:They are good books I just dont like how Tolkien goes on and on trying to descirbe a single thing with about ten paragraphs.

I absolutly love the hobbit though. I read that when i was about 8 too, not such a demanding read though.

Funny thing is the Priest at my local church is J.R.R Tolkiens grandson.

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ooh, its a battle between Fulgrim and Magnus at the moment, who will prevail?

I agree: Love Hobbit hate LOTR.

**Kurgash**

The Dawn of War series is in this poll...why?

**Grey Templar**

because he needed a base line.

you are tracking any votes on that choice right?

**nickmund**

Kurgash wrote:The Dawn of War series is in this poll...why?

Did you actually read it? I bet that was a waste of dosh.

**Monster Rain**

Fulgrim is the best one, in my opinion.

**KamikazeCanuck**

I voted for Brothers of the Snake.

**Grey Templar**

nickmund wrote:
Kurgash wrote:The Dawn of War series is in this poll...why?

Did you actually read it? I bet that was a waste of dosh.

i was at the book store and cracked open the cover and read the first chapter.

Scarred for life. all that jumping back and forth.

**nickmund**

Monster Rain wrote:Fulgrim is the best one, in my opinion.

Its is my favorite HH novel, but I love the Eisenhorn Ravenor novels too much. Thinking about it i should have realy voted Emperors Mercy, I bloody love that book its none stop action.

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Grey Templar wrote:

i was at the book store and cracked open the cover and read the first chapter.

Scarred for life. all that jumping back and forth.

I get funny looks when I do that.

**Monster Rain**

nickmund wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:Fulgrim is the best one, in my opinion.

Its is my favorite HH novel, but I love the Eisenhorn Ravenor novels too much. Thinking about it i should have realy voted Emperors Mercy, I bloody love that book its none stop action.

I like Eisenhorn, but it never really made me care that much about the Characters, you know?

Fulgrim really gave me a sense of the betrayal and loss felt by Ferrus Manus and even by Fulgrim and Horus at the end. I just think it was a better told story.

**nickmund**

Monster Rain wrote:
nickmund wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:Fulgrim is the best one, in my opinion.

Its is my favorite HH novel, but I love the Eisenhorn Ravenor novels too much. Thinking about it i should have realy voted Emperors Mercy, I bloody love that book its none stop action.

I like Eisenhorn, but it never really made me care that much about the Characters, you know?

Fulgrim really gave me a sense of the betrayal and loss felt by Ferrus Manus and even by Fulgrim and Horus at the end. I just think it was a better told story.

The tradgedy is my favorite part of the HH series, that and the insane action.
Some of the characters from the Eisenhorn series are in the ravenor series too like Harlon Nayl (Dan Abnetts alter-ego) his character develops slowly over the course of the series, hes a pretty cool dude really.

**KamikazeCanuck**

Not sure why Fulgrim is so popular. I thought it was ok. Goes over the Dropsite Massacre too quickly. Would rather they spent less time on Fulgrim's emotional problems and more on what may be the most important event in Human History! Not as good as the first 3 HH novels; the Luna Wolves trilogy if you will IMO.

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btw OP you've got Omnibuses and their individual Novels too. That's redundant.

**Monster Rain**

KamikazeCanuck wrote:Not sure why Fulgrim is so popular. I thought it was ok. Goes over the Dropsite Massacre too quickly. Would rather they spent less time on Fulgrim's emotional problems and more on what may be the most important event in Human History!

Would what is being described at 1:06 have been a little more your speed?

**Battle Brother Lucifer**

nickmund wrote:
NagothDaCleaver wrote:Fulgrim FTW!!!!!!!!!!

Great book, especially the bit where

Spoiler:

Fulgrim punches the crap out of that wraith lord and then does the same to the avatar!

It just made me think, holysht Fulgrim Kicks ass!

You gotta remember, Fulgrim killed two other primarchs as well.

**KamikazeCanuck**

Monster Rain wrote:
KamikazeCanuck wrote:Not sure why Fulgrim is so popular. I thought it was ok. Goes over the Dropsite Massacre too quickly. Would rather they spent less time on Fulgrim's emotional problems and more on what may be the most important event in Human History!

Would what is being described at 1:06 have been a little more your speed?

I don't get it....Seems like you just wanted to use that South Park clip really bad.

**Monster Rain**

KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:
KamikazeCanuck wrote:Not sure why Fulgrim is so popular. I thought it was ok. Goes over the Dropsite Massacre too quickly. Would rather they spent less time on Fulgrim's emotional problems and more on what may be the most important event in Human History!

Would what is being described at 1:06 have been a little more your speed?

I don't get it....Seems like you just wanted to use that South Park clip really bad.

Nope. Your post made me think of that scene, is all.

**ductvader**

Hammer of Daemons...ohhh...I don't even know how others can compare...

**Crushy**

nickmund wrote:
Crushy wrote:
nickmund wrote:"In the event of a hull breach and loss of pressure in space, hold your breath, pinch your nose and make swimming movements, find your way to the nearest airlock."

What's wrong about that?

I will abstain from voting, having only read Mechanicus.

The lack of Pressure would cause all the fluids in your body to boil, your eyes would probably explode and even if you could make swimming motions it would'nt get you anywhere, as space is a vacuum, not water. Its not a pretty image

Well, but it wouldn't be instantly... Also from the description I imagined someone still inside a ship with "artificial gravity" off and rapidly losing air.

See here for a good read (I originally found this out somewhere else, but this seems accurate enough): http://www.slate.com/id/2171522/

**Samus_aran115**

Ordo Dakka wrote:I have a short list I really liked. The Grey Knights and Ultramarines were generally terrible IMO. Most Space Marines series were mediocre, apart from the Soul Drinkers.

Best of the best:

Gaunt's Ghosts series (voted Sabbat Martyr)
A Thousand Sons
Tales of Heresy
Enforcer (a different breed, slow moving but really in depth)
Storm of Iron (my least favorite of the list... if only for lack of a sequel?)

The ultramarine's were great! I've read four of them so far, and I'm patiently waiting for more *drools*

Also...I hate tolkein....He's so boring! I can't believe I actually bothered reading those pieces of junk. He writes like an artist paints..Slowly and with every possible detail crammed in...So dull!

**Guitardian**

Ciaphus Cain is just a funny fun take on an otherwise horrible universe. I think of it as a kind of Hitchhikers Guide to 40k.

**nickmund**

Samus_aran115 wrote:
Ordo Dakka wrote:I have a short list I really liked. The Grey Knights and Ultramarines were generally terrible IMO. Most Space Marines series were mediocre, apart from the Soul Drinkers.

Best of the best:

Gaunt's Ghosts series (voted Sabbat Martyr)
A Thousand Sons
Tales of Heresy,
Enforcer (a different breed, slow moving but really in depth)
Storm of Iron (my least favorite of the list... if only for lack of a sequel?)

The ultramarine's were great! I've read four of them so far, and I'm patiently waiting for more *drools*

Also...I hate tolkein....He's so boring! I can't believe I actually bothered reading those pieces of junk. He writes like an artist paints..Slowly and with every possible detail crammed in...So dull!

Hammer of deamons is by far the best GK novel

Spoiler:

how much better can you get?
Too right Tolkiens books drag on and on, I cant stand it, the hobbit is still ace though.

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Guitardian wrote:Ciaphus Cain is just a funny fun take on an otherwise horrible universe. I think of it as a kind of Hitchhikers Guide to 40k.

I've been recomended Caiphas Cain time and time agian, I regret not reading it. It sounds like an amazing series, Blackadder in space!