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Angry Lobster posted:Abnett loved to use this kind of filler phrases back then. How's your humor? How's your humor? How's your humor? How's your humor? How's your humor?
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At least he got better about all that. Robert Jordan went to his grave with his female characters "folding her arms beneath her breasts", "fisting her hips", "clutching her skirts", and "tugging her braid". 
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Apr 12, 2020 19:13
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Listening to the nightlord audiobooks for the first time (read it the first time) and it really stands out how often ADB reminds the reader(listener) that everyone is standing around in growling power armor the color of midnight. Also red eye lenses, skull faced helm, and more! I don't mind it in audiobook format though, really helps paint a picture in my mind. E: I also love that some phrases read like placeholders. "I'll serve you some of whatever passes for fine alcohol in a place like the one you and I both live in" Sextro fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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Apr 12, 2020 19:34
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Wish these authors would stop loving describing things, ugh.
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Apr 12, 2020 19:35
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susan posted:How skippable is 'First Wall'? Like, can one go straight from 'Lost & Damned' to 'Saturnine' without missing a beat, or is there meat in 'Wall' that ought be chewed on first? It sucked and like 2 cool exchanges and one decent set piece. Totally skippable filler. If anyone knows how to get a copy of saturine they should let us know. Just let me give you money black library jesus
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Fellblade posted:Wish these authors would stop loving describing things, ugh.
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Apr 12, 2020 19:53
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Saturnine picks up immediately after first wall and establishes clear and meaningful stakes within the first 2 chapters. First Wall is entirely skippable.
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Apr 12, 2020 20:00
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Syncopated posted:That's not how that works Dan!! You're talking about the author who created Ravenor's voluptuous gymnast sidekick. Logic will not dictate how these women look.
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Apr 12, 2020 20:00
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What's some good Space Marine bolter porn available on Audible? I've already listened to Helsreach. Ideally not Horus Heresy.
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susan posted:How skippable is 'First Wall'? Like, can one go straight from 'Lost & Damned' to 'Saturnine' without missing a beat, or is there meat in 'Wall' that ought be chewed on first? The Wall is great, best Siege book so far easily. Train plotline was great. I haven’t read Saturnine.
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The Iron Rose posted:The Wall is great, best Siege book so far easily. Finally, a kindred spirit.
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peanut- posted:What's some good Space Marine bolter porn available on Audible? I've already listened to Helsreach. Ideally not Horus Heresy. Apocalypse was the best "nothing but bolter porn" book BL has put out in a couple of years. Not sure if the audiobook is worth a poo poo, but the book itself was just really good pulp bolter porn.
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Waroduce posted:It sucked and like 2 cool exchanges and one decent set piece. Totally skippable filler. There are sources. Haven't seen a scanned Saturnine yet. Since I buy all the LE editions I don't feel bad doing it for my rereads to cut down on wear and tear.
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peanut- posted:What's some good Space Marine bolter porn available on Audible? I've already listened to Helsreach. Ideally not Horus Heresy. If you liked Helsreach you will love Spear of the Emperor.
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Show yourself Henry Cavill. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-39B5ShMWw/ quote:Considering we are, both, going through the Easter period, and going through The Lockdown, I figured it a good time to put a silver lining onto the cloud that is some of the darker moments during this time. So I've decided to polish some old skills and try my hand at some new ones! It is a time of rebirth after all. So, as you can see here, the obvious might look a little bit like a tiny helmet...which it is. One of my almost life long hobbies, that I've been following but not actively doing, is this. A company called Games Workshop...or plastic crack as "we" call it. Genuinely can't get enough of the lore they have built over the decades. They have been some of my most enthused reads! If you were in denial about me being a geek before, you can't hide from it now. Also, in the background of this photo, there may just be some completely new skills I'm working on.....or there may not be, so all of your eye squinting and attempts at digital unfocusing will be in vain....orrrr maybe they won't. peanut- posted:What's some good Space Marine bolter porn available on Audible? I've already listened to Helsreach. Ideally not Horus Heresy. Chemtrailologist fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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D-Pad posted:Apocalypse was the best "nothing but bolter porn" book BL has put out in a couple of years. Not sure if the audiobook is worth a poo poo, but the book itself was just really good pulp bolter porn. This looks like it fits my needs very well, thanks. Just finished The Hollow Mountain which was quite disappointing compared to all the other Chris Wraight stuff on Terra. Fairly engaging to read, but ultimately it goes absolutely nowhere.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Carrion Throne has been excellent so far It is yes. Reading Hollow Mountain myself and while it hasn't had any of those moments yet it's still really good. The only disappointment so far is that the whole Great Rift happening only gets a minor mention. At least from one of the POV. At least the environment descriptions are so deliciously grimdark. jng2058 posted:At least he got better about all that. Robert Jordan went to his grave with his female characters "folding her arms beneath her breasts", "fisting her hips", "clutching her skirts", and "tugging her braid". Oh god, I remember that. I read them translated into Swedish and I still remember that. (Also the fact they were all chopped into two books for some reason.) Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:The Gaunts Ghosts books are great and then out of nowhere you get some really skeevy descriptions of women and it's like welp guess this is really is still trash genre fiction Her grimdark titties breasted boobily on the battlefield Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Apr 13, 2020 |
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Apr 13, 2020 16:44
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peanut- posted:Just finished The Hollow Mountain which was quite disappointing compared to all the other Chris Wraight stuff on Terra. Fairly engaging to read, but ultimately it goes absolutely nowhere. Hollow Mountain definitely feels like a very "Middle Of The Trilogy" book in that you get to the end and it's really just setup for the next one. But I also think Crowl and his crew are cool enough that I didn't really mind. In a related vein, I love the perspective you get on the Astartes from the Watchers of the Throne books, since the Custodes are one of the only groups in the Imperium who know the actual history and context of the Heresy.
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If I read Lord's of Silence and loved it, also read a bit of horus heresy stuff back when the books started but fell off, what should I be looking for in that vein? Watchers of the throne? More looking for the new stuff etc. Edit: loved night Lord's and should get around to finishing Gaunt off sometime, didnt have to be CSM but was looking more Chris Wraight in general. Though I assume the vault of terra series is the inquisitor one with hollow mountain? Sorry, not up on my books and more than a tad high. Jack Ketch fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Apr 14, 2020 |
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LoS is pretty unique. The Night Lords trilogy is another great series about CSMs, but they are much different characters. The Black Legion series is also great. If you like Chris Wraight, and you should, I would read The Vault of Terra and Watcher's of the Throne series next. It's his best work and all 4 books are amazing.
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D-Pad posted:LoS is pretty unique. The Night Lords trilogy is another great series about CSMs, but they are much different characters. The Black Legion series is also great. Would I want to start with Vault or Watcher's, does it matter much?
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Good question. They are set during the same time. Watchers deals with things on a macro scale and you get a good look into what is happening at the leadership level. Vaults is at a micro level following an inquisitor's involvement in an investigation. Personally, I would say read Watchers first then Vaults, it will give you more context going into Vaults.
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D-Pad posted:Good question. They are set during the same time. Watchers deals with things on a macro scale and you get a good look into what is happening at the leadership level. Vaults is at a micro level following an inquisitor's involvement in an investigation. Personally, I would say read Watchers first then Vaults, it will give you more context going into Vaults. Awesome, thanks!
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I'm about 90% through The First Wall now, and I must admit it got a little better when the daemon incursions started. Forrix poo poo talking Kroeger was great and there are some redeeming scenes. But overall if still feels like filler bolter porn. And it's not just because giant battle scenes between nameless marines doesn't mean anything because Know No Fear was amazing. BTW - Not calling you out Duzzy Funlop, but expanding on a few things Duzzy Funlop posted:
I think part of it is that the general quality has been creeping up since the days of Furious Abyss. At this late stage in the game it's a bigger deal having a "meh" story thrown at us. I stopped reading the HH books about 40 books in because I was tired of bullshit filler and then scenes that require you to have listened to some obscure "audio drama" for some key character to pop up. I don't do audio books. As far as I'm concerned, Loken is still crushed under the rubble at Istvaan. There was something in Vengeful Spirit where he was back, but... I just glazed over why he was suddenly there and fine. Duzzy Funlop posted:
Again, I know Kharn from Betrayer (and the scene from the first trilogy where he's impaled on a tank). I know he's always been the avatar of beserker rage, but having his speech spelt out like that feels like reading a comic book. Better authors will describe that his speech is broken and punctuated with drooling, etc. Look at Uzas in the Night Lords trilogy. Same kind of character, but much better to read about. Maybe I prefer to hear the voices in my head from the description rather than having them spelt out for me. Duzzy Funlop posted:
The scene switching felt clumsy because it was juggling time skips as well. It's one thing jumping between different story archs in a story - it's expected in all media - but going from a frantic battle on the sky ports and then slamming the brakes on and going to "back on the train... 120 hours before some point around what you were just reading" is just clunky. I will admit that the thread was right and it does pick up a bit as it goes on, and I'm not finished yet so lets see. Assuming the twist everyone is talking about is the free corps are traitors then I didn't see it coming either. But it wasn't an "OMG OF COURSE!!!" moment. More a "wait, I need to read that again, WTF" moment. If this book had been released 6-7 years ago we'd be saying it was a strong entry, but after the steady growth of genuinely good books it feels like a step back (jesus christ, 14 years since Horus Rising?!). I told myself I wasn't reading any more HH books until the Emperor was literally swinging on Horus. Then Seige of Terra series started and seemed to be speeding things up. Looking forward to Saturine though. I've managed to avoid spoilers so far (but will probably hover over black barred spoilers in here because I am weak)
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The sudden Dune homage in Hollow Mountain was not something I expected to see but loved regardless.
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I've not read Dune in a long time, what was the homage?
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peanut- posted:I've not read Dune in a long time, what was the homage? There was a millennia old all powerful emperor and AI was forbidden by religious decree. Also, space travels require post human navigators.* *These references might possibly occur in other 40k books too.
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Zudgemud posted:There was a millennia old all powerful emperor and AI was forbidden by religious decree. Also, space travels require post human navigators.* That's been part of 40k lore since the Rogue Trader era, it's no secret that 40k originally drawed heavily/plagiarized/paid homage to Dune.
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There is AI in W40k tho Way way way way way way more than Dune where there is none. In the original books.
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euphronius posted:There is AI in W40k tho Genocidal kill bots from the dark age of technology don't count. And neither do Cawl's works. Because reasons. Stop asking.
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Ego-bot posted:Show yourself Henry Cavill. man, based on henry cavill's ridiculous physicality in Mission Impossible, I wouldn't mind seeing him as a gloriously mustachioed Space Marine. honestly, it was probably my favorite part of that excellent movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUbb5l0lYT8
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Famethrowa posted:man, based on henry cavill's ridiculous physicality in Mission Impossible, I wouldn't mind seeing him as a gloriously mustachioed Space Marine. That fist piston owns.
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Azubah posted:That fist piston owns. that and the mustache that ruined (justifiably I mean look at it) Justice League. it's fantastic.
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Henry Cavill as a Primaris marine opposite Dave Bautista as a non Primaris marine fighting side by side.
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I think he'd be wasted as a space marine, getting cg'd to oblivion. My vote is Henry Cavill for Harlon Nayl.
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Cavill as someone who fails upwards because of his good looks and luck is what I was thinking. He's played enough competent heroes, he needs to be a handsome idiot a few times. E: The Lion is a handsome idiot so he wouldn't even have to be a minor character for that.
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