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Preorder for that Valdor book is up. https://www.games-workshop.com/en-U...0b818-122958233
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Guyver posted:Rose watered with Blood is about the Conqueror trying to get to Terra for the party but part of the crew want off because it's evil now and they try to get Lotara to help She lets them get off then blows them up in space and sics Kharn on the rest. The fighter pilot in prince of crows was badass.
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Oct 26, 2019 18:21
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Azubah posted:Preorder for that Valdor book is up. Oh, Chris Wraight, sick.
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Oct 26, 2019 18:34
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Jesus 60 bux tho fuckin hell man.
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Oct 26, 2019 18:53
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Zasze posted:The fighter pilot in prince of crows was badass. She was and I like the bit about Sevatar favoring people he thinks might be descended from his family. Like the pilot.
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Oct 26, 2019 19:02
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Waroduce posted:Jesus 60 bux tho fuckin hell man. It's just the limited edition. $60 is pretty good for an LE they are usually $80+. The ebook and regular hardcover will be standard price when they come out in a few months. I managed to snag an LE copy though, since Wraight is my favorite BL author and Valdor is super interesting to me lore wise. I expect it to have some really cool lore given the subject and author.
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Oct 26, 2019 19:35
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After the second eisenhorn novel i dont think ill move on to the 3rd. Its neat swashbuckling but i think the first person perspective really lets the embarassing sci fi author male gaze stuff come to the forefeont and each one just ends so abruptly. Its very fun to imagine dan abnett watching a bunch of like boyz in the hood and friday, notebook in hand, to write all the dialogue for the twist town strip club though.
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Oct 26, 2019 23:24
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So I'm a chapter into 'Honorbound', which got nothing but rave reviews from all the sources I checked. ...This might be the most cliched, 80's dialogue, two dimensional characterization chapter I've read in a 40k novel. Like, every time there's dialogue, internal or external, it's like the author asked "What is the most on-the-nose cliche I can reach for here". Does it get better? Should I keep going, or cut bait and go elsewhere?
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Oct 27, 2019 19:01
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Sharkopath posted:After the second eisenhorn novel i dont think ill move on to the 3rd. Its neat swashbuckling but i think the first person perspective really lets the embarassing sci fi author male gaze stuff come to the forefeont and each one just ends so abruptly. Trust me (and I assume everyone else here) when we say the third is probably the most important book of the trilogy. As individual stories, they don't end very well, but I thought the ending of the trilogy was fantastic.
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Oct 27, 2019 19:49
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hopterque posted:Oh, Chris Wraight, sick. So I'm guessing I should pick up Lords of Silence the next time I'm at the FLGS?
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Oct 27, 2019 21:48
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Dawgstar posted:So I'm guessing I should pick up Lords of Silence the next time I'm at the FLGS? Yes, absolutely. It made me view Nurgle in an entirely different light and they are my favorite chaos faction now.
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Oct 27, 2019 22:14
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Trust me (and I assume everyone else here) when we say the third is probably the most important book of the trilogy. As individual stories, they don't end very well, but I thought the ending of the trilogy was fantastic. Okay, you have charmed me.
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Oct 27, 2019 22:47
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I'm very much in the minority in that I didn't really enjoy it that much but I think what I didn't enjoy about it was part of what everyone else really liked. The accepting, fatalistic aspect of emotions made all the characters come off as flat to me and killed the drama of some pretty solid plot stuff. I'm very much in the minority though and I can recognise what I didn't like at all about it is in large part a stylistic choice a lot of others seem to like
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Oct 27, 2019 23:46
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Dawgstar posted:So I'm guessing I should pick up Lords of Silence the next time I'm at the FLGS?
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Oct 27, 2019 23:58
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Galvanik posted:It was really good, but I realized about halfway through that since the protagonists were villains there was no way for it to have a satisfying ending for my tastes. In a setting where the 'good guys' are xenophobic, religious zealots who use genetically engineered monster soldiers to destroy billions of people and casually lobotomise people to serve them toast - what is a villain, really?
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Oct 29, 2019 19:25
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The baby eating warp daemons?
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Oct 29, 2019 20:21
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Guyver posted:The baby eating warp daemons? That's all a matter of perspective. They were eating baby Hitlers.
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Oct 29, 2019 20:25
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Already enjoying The Lords of Silence. I like calling Nurglings 'Little Lords' and diseases 'Gifts.' Also a Nurgling farted on Vorx and that's funny.
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Oct 30, 2019 02:39
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Guyver posted:The baby eating warp daemons? you mean The Emperor? 
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Oct 30, 2019 10:48
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Dawgstar posted:Already enjoying The Lords of Silence. I like calling Nurglings 'Little Lords' and diseases 'Gifts.' Also a Nurgling farted on Vorx and that's funny. The scene where he takes the injured nurgling to the apothecary is one of my favorite 40k scenes.
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Oct 30, 2019 14:00
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I've been crowing about this book for a while now but don't take my word for it... https://www.trackofwords.com/2019/10/28/rites-of-passage-mike-brooks/ Chetta, the main character, is quite possibly my favorite 40k character out of the whole setting. This thread would love her if everybody would read the book!
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Nov 1, 2019 05:37
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I have a feeling that my one free book per month on Audible isn't quite gonna cut it anymore. Also, I generally try to go for audiobooks between 12 to 15 hours in length, and some of these Horus Heresy titles are only 8h30 
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Nov 1, 2019 05:44
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D-Pad posted:I've been crowing about this book for a while now but don't take my word for it... I'll read Rites of Passage once it hits Barnes and Noble  Picked up House of Night and Chain as well as The Red Feast for my plane ride reading to and from a conference next week, so interested to see how they go. I'm still sour on David Annandale after what I thought was horrible writing in The Death of Antagonis, so hoping this one goes better.
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Nov 1, 2019 13:40
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D-Pad posted:I've been crowing about this book for a while now but don't take my word for it... Got the audiobook, it was pretty good. Navigator matriarch is definitely a novel 40k protagonist.
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Nov 2, 2019 02:12
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Any guesses as to when the second part of the Gaunt's Ghosts Victory omnibus might come out? Alternatively, if I just buy the two books, how do I find the short stories that always find their way into each omnibus?
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Nov 2, 2019 02:44
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No idea when Victory Part 2 is out but if you want the story right now you need to read Sabbat Crusade, Warmaster and Anarch, in that order. Sabbat Crusade takes place immediately after Salvation's Reach and has important plot information for Warmaster and Anarch.
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Nov 2, 2019 03:00
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D-Pad posted:I've been crowing about this book for a while now but don't take my word for it... She's like the Asavarala from The Expanse and I keep hearing her lines in that husky, cranky old grandma voice.
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Nov 2, 2019 03:46
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Z the IVth posted:She's like the Asavarala from The Expanse and I keep hearing her lines in that husky, cranky old grandma voice. She's all the Golden Girls rolled into one, given a third eye, and born in the 41st millennium. I would love to see more offbeat characters like this in 40k. Despite being nothing like any other character in the universe, she still felt like she belonged to this grimdark future. If Mike Brooks continues to write at this level I fully believe he will end up right up there with Abnett, ADB, and Wraight. It was a great first novel for a new author.
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Nov 2, 2019 03:59
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Finally listening to Helsreach after throwing a spare audible credit at it. Man, cleaning the house while hearing the vivid descriptions of those sea facilities getting blown out and falling into the ocean one by one as they realize whats happening was metal as gently caress. So many good moments - fighting in the presence of the primarch statues, the titan standing back up, the roll call of Templars fallen and seed recovered, hell just the siege prep happening at the beginning - I dig it. A lot. This is my first Spaec Marine-centric book, what's a good follow-up?
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Nov 2, 2019 22:14
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Few things match Helsreach for raw 40K-ness, so I'd recommend watching Richard Boylan's fanfilm adaptation of Helsreach if you haven't already done so.
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Nov 2, 2019 22:27
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mythicknight posted:Finally listening to Helsreach after throwing a spare audible credit at it. I haven't read Helsreach (yet) but from those spoilered bits, Know No Fear would probably be a good choice.
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Nov 3, 2019 01:08
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There’s a huge difference between generic bolter porn and evocative scenes that some authors pull off. I was reading Salvations Reach again the other day and the pages where the thunder hawk breaches the station is massive levels of  It really shows how poorly anything in Dark Imperium that doesn’t involve politics or personal relationships is done.
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Nov 3, 2019 12:04
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Inspector_666 posted:I haven't read Helsreach (yet) but from those spoilered bits, Know No Fear would probably be a good choice. Agreed. It's part of the Horus Heresy series but it's perfectly readable as a stand-alone book.
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Nov 3, 2019 19:02
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mythicknight posted:Finally listening to Helsreach after throwing a spare audible credit at it. A Marine-centric modern book I quite enjoyed was 'Red Tithe', about the Carcharodons and Night Lords on rival recruitment missions on the same planet.
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Nov 3, 2019 20:49
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House of Night and Chain is a pretty good read especially since David Annandale really sells the protagonist having no loving idea what's real and what's not. Definitely much better than what I remember of Death of Antagonis.
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Nov 4, 2019 02:35
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Ugh, my Valdor LE was supposed to be here today and now it says Tuesday.
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Nov 4, 2019 02:49
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Just finished Requiem Infernal and I gotta say this was excellent, A+. It felt like it was both almost not a 40k book and at the same time a very, very 40k book. Warp fuckery that felt like actual warp fuckery in a real horrific sense, rather than just cheap shock value. Not at all the standard bolter porn type, really benefits from a slower read than my usual skim past the combat sections style.
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Nov 4, 2019 05:46
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The Rat posted:Just finished Requiem Infernal and I gotta say this was excellent, A+. It felt like it was both almost not a 40k book and at the same time a very, very 40k book. Warp fuckery that felt like actual warp fuckery in a real horrific sense, rather than just cheap shock value. Not at all the standard bolter porn type, really benefits from a slower read than my usual skim past the combat sections style. All of that author's books are connected in subtle and sometimes bigger ways and they are all pretty good. If you liked Requiem Infernal you will like all his stuff. There is a big graphic floating around somewhere of all the connections between books. I think the name for his body of work is The Dark Coil?
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Nov 4, 2019 06:08
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https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/bdjf4a/to_celebrate_release_of_requiem_infernal_new/ Here's one I found via quick google search, no idea if there's any others lurking about. Spoilers obviously.
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