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I just finished the Audio book of Flight o the Eisenstien, its great and I love it to pieces

liamnicholson wrote:
Does anyone know if there are any 40k Novels told from the perspective of a Librarian at all? Or where a Librarian is at least a fairly central character?

In Fear To Tread one of the main character's is a former Blood Angels Librarian.

The Horus Heresy is a really good set to read.

The Iron Warriors/ Ultramarine Omnibuses are fantastic too.

They (IW/UM) have to be read together and you have to hop from series to series inbetween books at some point to get the full effect, but I think the Main IW charatcer is prolly the most Metal villain in all of 40k.

Deathwatch by Steve Parker has a librarian as the main character he's a death specter. And the dark angels books from the HH series.

 Huda wrote:
Hey guys,

I'm interested in reading the WH40K novels, particularly about the Horus Heresy.

Which books would you recommend, where do I start?

Are they available as e-books?

Cheers =]

The Authors of the codices and core rulebook (with exceptions like Ward) generally take great care to write in such a fashion that the overall story of WH40k will make sense to you if you read all the codices and the rulebook. While I dislike several of the factions for what I consider to be poor writing (I am arrogant about that and I don't expect that everyone will share my opinions), I think that overall, they contain entertaining stories that will strengthen your understanding of the background and lore.

The Authors of the various Black Library novels take no pains whatsoever to write in the same world as one another. This is not to say that the books are bad, and many of them are strongly written and have many literary merits of their own, but I found that they did nothing but diminish my enjoyment of the hobby overall. They are wildly inconsistent with one another, some being written by accomplished novelist and some being written by what I can only assume are 8 year olds with connections at GW. The Horus Heresy series in particular I found to be quite terrible. Not because it was poorly written or was not consistent, but because it ultimately amounts to providing too much information. Part of the grandeur of 40k is that its history is supposed to be ambiguous. By saying concretely that history went a certain way it robs the story of its mystery, and the robs me of my ability to imagine it in my own way.

That being said, I am certainly not representative of the majority of this forum and fully expect that others will highly praise and encourage that you read certain books. Tread cautiously. If you read things that ruin the story for you, it can't be unread, but protecting yourself from something that would diminish the experience can live it rich...

Decent of Angels and Fallen Angels with Brother-Librarian Zahariel.

 Musashi363 wrote:
Battle of the Abyss(i really liked that one),.

I'm not trying to dog on your specific tastes, more to warn the OP, but that is literally one of the worst books I've read in any genre, lol. I'm not saying there aren't worse books out there. Just none I have ever had the unfortunate luck to have by accident, or having been tricked into reading.

It is so bad I almost never read another Horus Heresy book. There are literally no redeeming qualities to the book. Every single character is a one dimensional card stock character. If you polled somebody on what they thought five traits of an Ultramarine, Space Wolf, or World Eater were, the answers you'd get would be more deep than the characters in the book. The action is cartoonish at best. Space Marines who need to be invincible are invincible. The ones which need to die are made of tissue paper. It's one credit is that it doesn't have magically appearing Primarchs who just so happen to be wherever it is in the galaxy that it would be convenient for them to be at the time.

I have to agree to both sides of the Battle of the Abyss argument. I think the reason I liked it was its placement in the series. The first 5 books were amazing, but then decent of angels was meh and legion was so hard to read that when i got to Battle of the Abyss it felt good. Like watching a cheesy fun action movie after sitting through a Twilight movie.

Jimobofo wrote:
I have to agree to both sides of the Battle of the Abyss argument. I think the reason I liked it was its placement in the series. The first 5 books were amazing, but then decent of angels was meh and legion was so hard to read that when i got to Battle of the Abyss it felt good. Like watching a cheesy fun action movie after sitting through a Twilight movie.

Decent of Angels was meh! HERETIC! But yeah I agree with you on the rest of what you said. Twilight movies.

Was Descent of Angels even a 40K novel?

Yes it was, and if anyone says different then they're a damned liar .

My bad, it was HH