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notaspy posted:I am re-reading the first culture book as I only read the first quarter, and gently caress me I must have been half asleep when I first did. Ban this sick filth
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Biplane posted:Ban this sick filth Haha, I thought I had posted that elsewhere. Explains why I was getting no response.
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Oct 30, 2018 14:45
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notaspy posted:Haha, I thought I had posted that elsewhere. Explains why I was getting no response. Disgusted at ur slandering of Horza
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Oct 30, 2018 14:51
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So far he seems a bit of a self righteous prick. If he was in the imperium he would have been shot by now for xenoloving
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Oct 30, 2018 15:24
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Well for one hes not human. For another yes he is self righteous as gently caress but I feel that is warranted since his species is basically going extinct.
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Oct 30, 2018 16:08
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berzerkmonkey posted:There ain't a lot available. Avoid anything prior to the Nagash book. I'm listening to "Soul Wars" right now, but I'm not impressed. The narrator isn't great, and I keep losing interest. I'm listening to the audiobook of Hammerhal and Other Stories and I'm enjoying it. There's a lot more grey in this setting than in 40k.
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Oct 30, 2018 19:13
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Plavski posted:I'm listening to the audiobook of Hammerhal and Other Stories and I'm enjoying it. There's a lot more grey in this setting than in 40k. Oh, yeah - I forgot to mention that one. It's billed as babby's first AoS, so it's supposed to be alright in terms of the collection. You might enjoy the "original" AoS novels - some of the Hammerhal stories are pulled from those books. I heard they are pretty bad though, and have avoided them.
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Oct 30, 2018 19:16
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I just listened to my very first audio book on a longer drive, and while not the most riveting stories, it was a loving amazing way to pass the time while slogging along the autobahn at a casual 140kmh. It was Dan Abnett's Talon and Thorn, and I still have the 60 minutes of the third story left over for the trip back home. What have I been doing with my life...listening to regular music like a lunatic
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Oct 30, 2018 23:05
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Oh man, you're in for a treat. Anything narrated by Jonathan Keeble that I've heard has been amazing so far. Helsreach, Talon of Horus, Black Legion and Betrayer are all A+ listens.
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Oct 30, 2018 23:15
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For Age of Sigmar books I have heard good things about Shadespire the Mirrored City and the Callis and Toll series (Which stars a Witch Hunter and a FreeGuild Sergent.) Don't know if they are in audio book form however. (But they probably are. ) There is also a New Gotrek and Felix story called Realmslayer coming out that is a full audio Drama. With Brian Blessed as Gotrek. Apparently about Gotrek waking up in the mortal Realms insulting any Elves he runs into, shouting he has not forgotten his oaths, and going off to find Felix. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Oct 31, 2018 |
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Oct 31, 2018 00:09
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Only one of the Callis books is in audiobook, but it's on my list. The selection is small so far but growing, unlike the chronicles stuff unfortunately 
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MonsterEnvy posted:For Age of Sigmar books I have heard good things about Shadespire the Mirrored City and the Callis and Toll series (Which stars a Witch Hunter and a FreeGuild Sergent.) Don't know if they are in audio book form however. (But they probably are. ) Yeah, I got an update from the Black Library about the new Gotrek-story. Too bad it's an audio drama, as I generally don't like those. In other news, I sat down and read the newest Caiaphas Cain book. He's finally fighting a new enemy! Well, mostly. He also meets an old flame again. Two, if you count Amberley. Or would she be a current flame? Anyway, it was fun, basically if you know Caiaphas there aren't many surprises and I can still recommend it. There are also some funny moments when Caiaphas blithely ignores what Aeldari call their own poo poo and Amberley has to correct him in her footnotes. 
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Oct 31, 2018 00:53
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Plavski posted:Only one of the Callis books is in audiobook, but it's on my list. The selection is small so far but growing, unlike the chronicles stuff unfortunately The other one is a short story, not a full novel. At best, there might be an audio drama in the future, but it's not likely.
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Oct 31, 2018 01:31
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Telsa Cola posted:Well for one hes not human. For another yes he is self righteous as gently caress but I feel that is warranted since his species is basically going extinct. Horza sucks
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Oct 31, 2018 17:06
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Who you calling a Horza.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Horza sucks while I do appreciate your username, this is a Horza mockery-free zone
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Oct 31, 2018 17:51
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Old Earth - good/mediocre/bad? Also any of the Primarch books outside of Khan good? (Already read that one).
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The Rat posted:Oh man, you're in for a treat. Anything narrated by Jonathan Keeble that I've heard has been amazing so far. Helsreach, Talon of Horus, Black Legion and Betrayer are all A+ listens. Keeble's voice for Telemachon in Talon of Horus made me slide a full point on the Kinsey scale, not ashamed to tell ya.
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I've mentioned it in this thread before, but he also narrated the Warlord Chronicles by Bernard Cornwell, which is what ADB is basing his Black Legion series off of, in terms of narrative structure. Was on a road trip and had just finished Black Legion and then The Winter King started playing and when I realized it was Jonathan Keeble again I was like AWWWW poo poo YEAH
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The Rat posted:Oh man, you're in for a treat. Anything narrated by Jonathan Keeble that I've heard has been amazing so far. Helsreach, Talon of Horus, Black Legion and Betrayer are all A+ listens. Betrayer in particular. His Angron is 
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Nov 2, 2018 11:35
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He reads some stories in the Hammerhal AoS audiobook I'm listening to and they're just fantastic. Listening to his Skaven bickering with his Nurgle Champions is a treat.
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The Rat posted:Oh man, you're in for a treat. Anything narrated by Jonathan Keeble that I've heard has been amazing so far. Helsreach, Talon of Horus, Black Legion and Betrayer are all A+ listens. Finished Thorn wishes Talon on the drive back home today, and what a One thing I've noticed though is that the three audiobook stories I've gone through so far all seem very "easy reading", so not very complex at all, no big plot twists or giant reveals towards the end, which on the one hand, is a bit disappointing, but on the other hand, I guess you need to keep it sortakinda "simple" for the audio format. Amazing narration and really good voice-acting too. Only Thonius had a bit of an odd cast, though I get he needs to be voiced as the inexperienced, nerdy team member in that part of the Ravenor storyline. Couple of odd inconsistencies as well, like the Divine Fratery suddenly having a dreadnought with lascannons out of nowhere, and then later that dreadnought jams up and can't "cycle its cannons" like it suddenly has autocannons and Eisenhorn psi-jams the ammo feed or something. But just a tiny bump that doesn't really matter anyway. This whole 3-part series has been an amazing first experience to audiobooks, and now I'm furiously looking for more stuff to properly fill my two-and-a-half hour trips back home every other weekend.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Finished Thorn wishes Talon on the drive back home today, and what a All the Eisenhorn short stories are in the audible version of Magos. Listen to "The Strange Demise of Titus Endor", it's not quite so simple. Definitely my favorite 40K short so far.
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I'm still trying to figure out what actually happened in that story other than Titus being infected by the worms that presumably ultimately killed him.
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Nov 2, 2018 17:10
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He was mad... but he was also right. He learned to accept it.
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Nov 2, 2018 17:21
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Hapshant gave him brain worms that slowly caused him to go crazy and hallucinate. Pretty sure the whole story was basically "this is all a fever dream by a crazy man."
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Nov 2, 2018 17:23
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Question for history/40k nerds. Is the Dropsite Massacre on Istvaan a reference to the assassination of Istvan Tisza in WW1 when Austria and Hungary severed ties and shattered the Empire?
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The original 40K people were gigantic history nerds so it's almost assured that that's the case but I'm sure it's never been said in any kind of official capacity.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:Hapshant gave him brain worms that slowly caused him to go crazy and hallucinate. Pretty sure the whole story was basically "this is all a fever dream by a crazy man." Most of it, anyway. There are periods of lucidity interspersed in there, though.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Most of it, anyway. There are periods of lucidity interspersed in there, though. True. When his interrogator showed up seemed to be some of those moments. That was a good story.
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Demon Of The Fall posted:Hapshant gave him brain worms that slowly caused him to go crazy and hallucinate. Pretty sure the whole story was basically "this is all a fever dream by a crazy man." I figured it was Titus "reliving" his last case and going through the same motions he did X years ago, while his former-interrogator was trying to get him to knock it off without actually getting him into trouble. The thing that really threw me for a loop was when he visits the dancers flat.
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Brian Blessed is going to be the voice of Gotrek Gurnisson in Realmslayer audio drama. https://twitter.com/brianblessed/status/1041980117231312897
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Vadoc posted:Brian Blessed is going to be the voice of Gotrek Gurnisson in Realmslayer audio drama. That... doesn't actually seem like a good fit to me? Gotrek is taciturn and grumpy and doesn't talk a lot unless i'm not remembering correctly (it has been awhile).
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hopterque posted:That... doesn't actually seem like a good fit to me? Gotrek is taciturn and grumpy and doesn't talk a lot unless i'm not remembering correctly (it has been awhile). Really depends on his mood and state of drunkenness.
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hopterque posted:That... doesn't actually seem like a good fit to me? Gotrek is taciturn and grumpy and doesn't talk a lot unless i'm not remembering correctly (it has been awhile). Gotrek talks a lot actually. Well, he says lots of variations on "This is hosed" and "I'mma kill me a _____" and occasionally he grumbles about various things so I think Brian Blessed would be fine. E: And I think he has an Indiana Jones snake line about trolls? It's been a hot minute. Orv fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Nov 4, 2018 |
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All of the F&G stories are Felix ostensibly writing them down to record Gotrek's demise. He's not necessarily going to remember to write everything Gotrek's says, especially since most of what comes out of the dwarf's mouth are insults and challenges. Also, Gotrek is showing up in an entirely new world, minus Felix, so I assume he's going to be a little more talkative in this story.
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There's a 6 minute sample up on audible now as it has been released: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Realmslayer-Audiobook/1780308825 Blessed is delightful and Keebler is typically his excellent self.
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Plavski posted:There's a 6 minute sample up on audible now as it has been released: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Realmslayer-Audiobook/1780308825 Oh hell yeah, it's going to be gotrek grognarding his way through warhammer planescape looking for his hypeman! I take back everything bad I've ever said about AoS.
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Dikkfor posted:
Woah there, let's not be too hasty. There's been improvements but it still deserves some scorn at how GW did it and the glacial pace they're moving at to introduce everything for it, and 40K.
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