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PantsOptional posted:You want the audiobook Garro: Legion of One. Oh wow. The plot summary of that makes it sound really, really dumb.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Oh wow. The plot summary of that makes it sound really, really dumb. Yeah, all you really need is that he survived and has the universe’s worst case of PTSD.
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Finished Devastation of Baal recently. The Tyranid war part kinda ground on and on after a while, but I have to say I liked the Lictor sections, Dante parts and the segment at the end where they dourly discuss how the Primaris are going to replace the old guard. Red Tithe was also a nice read. Now just to wait for the next few months of releases before ordering them all and plowing through them in one go.
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PantsOptional posted:You want the audiobook Garro: Legion of One. As I understand it, that book compiled a bunch of audio dramas and short stories into one more or less cohesive book. It's hardly the worst book in the HH series.
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I'm really looking forward to new post-rift books. I didn't even know about Baal until a few weeks ago. Where do people get their news of new good books?
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I'm reading through Devastation of Baal right now and honestly it's pretty boring. That's mostly because it's a novel where the entirety of the case is space marines and is boring as poo poo as a result. The Lictor (and Dante to a lesser extent) sections shined in comparison if only because they actually felt like they had some character. Leaving aside the incredible achievement of making a loving Lictor more engaging than the entirety of the cast, it really goes to show that, at least for me, I think non-space marine viewpoints and major characters are pretty essential. It allows more of a connection with the characters and events happening, and also lets the space marines' weirdness really come out to play. My review of Devastation of Baal is that it's pretty much "BLOOD/DUTY/HONOR" 24/7. Unless the viewpoint is from Dante in which case it's "ANGST/DUTY/BLOOD/HONOR" instead. The Bolter porn is fine and all I guess, but even that's super dreary when you just don't give a poo poo about any of the characters. The Iron Rose fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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The Iron Rose posted:I'm reading through Devastation of Baal right now and honestly it's pretty boring. Just finished it and I agree with everything
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I think that is why I like Watchers of the Throne so much. You get the perspectives of the politician, the almost-philosophical custodian, and the really really angry sister of silence.
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Too add to 'Horus Heresy depictions of Terra'. Praetorian of Dorn is set entirely in the Solar System and has a lot of world building stuff in there.
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Deptfordx posted:Too add to 'Horus Heresy depictions of Terra'. Outcast Dead is set on Terra and has sections involving the wastelands and the Thunderwarriors. It's not a book I'd recommend going out of your way to read though
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Are there any books with Saint Celestine? Backstory or just current badassery whatever. Maybe not just focusing on her, but a major part or something. Anything?
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Not that I know of at least. I'd love to be proven wrong on that, Sisters of Battle are criminally underrepresented in BL fiction.
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Philthy posted:Are there any books with Saint Celestine? Backstory or just current badassery whatever. Maybe not just focusing on her, but a major part or something. Anything? She gets murked by Kharn in one of the newer alpha legion novels
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Philthy posted:Are there any books with Saint Celestine? Backstory or just current badassery whatever. Maybe not just focusing on her, but a major part or something. Anything? Shroud of Night has her as a major character
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Immanentized posted:She gets murked by Kharn in one of the newer alpha legion novels The finest way to go in all of 40k.
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Sephyr posted:The finest way to go in all of 40k. I mean, it's all in the experience (ambience?) isn't it?
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Immanentized posted:She gets murked by Kharn in one of the newer alpha legion novels If its not too much trouble can you summarize that book? I love me some alpha legion.
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Sephyr posted:The finest way to go in all of 40k. The Sisters only exist to get slaughtered, we know.
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Telsa Cola posted:If its not too much trouble can you summarize that book? I love me some alpha legion. Alpha legionaires have their curiosities piqued during/after the events of the fall of Cadia. Additionally, they're after some macguffin that puts them up against a crusade force and the living saint; as well as a detachment of Primaris marines. Alpha legion does their clandestine thing, making and breaking allegiances and learning things about themselves along the way. Kharn shows up and does his schtick but it's handled well. Items of interest: Celestine has a good amount of screen time Chaos is really fascinated by the primaris marines The sequel is coming out this month Immanentized fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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I literally just finished Shroud of Night about two hours ago and it's absolutely fantastic. It also has the balls to actually set the point of view almost entirely from the Alpha Legion, so there's only a handful of sections when it's from the view of Imperial Characters. And one of those is Celestine, which is delightful. Also the Alpha Legion main characters are generally well done and emotive. Reminded me a lot of the Night Lords series in how consistently funny it was, though the Alpha Legion's humour is a bit more reserved.
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Probably gonna be getting some more books soon - any opinions on the extant Primarch series of books?
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Pyrolocutus posted:Probably gonna be getting some more books soon - any opinions on the extant Primarch series of books? They're all pretty lovely for the most part
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Is the curse of the wolfen series any good....or war zone fenris? Like what the gently caress happened with that? The 13th company came back, space wolves saving wolfen. Running from Inquisition and than grey knights and chaos in fenris and?????? I read the first one which I really enjoyed and had a great tone but did they just die off or what
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Pyrolocutus posted:Probably gonna be getting some more books soon - any opinions on the extant Primarch series of books? Fulgrim encourages his closest advisors to rear end rape him with a “pear of agony”. It goes downhill from there.
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Waroduce posted:Is the curse of the wolfen series any good....or war zone fenris? Fenris gets exploded by magnus In there somewhere too.
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isoprenaline posted:Fulgrim encourages his closest advisors to rear end rape him with a “pear of agony”. Wasn't that in one of the Emperor's Children Horus Heresy books? It was hilariously awful too though. Read like one of those fake sections you get sometimes in pirated BL ebooks 
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The Iron Rose posted:Wasn't that in one of the Emperor's Children Horus Heresy books? Yeah, "The Reflection Crack'd" short story. No, really. That's the spelling. There's talk about it back in the thread. It's... not good.
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Dog_Meat posted:Yeah, "The Reflection Crack'd" short story. No, really. That's the spelling. Agatha Christie wrote a story titled "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side." It's a legit, artistic way to write the word. Not excusing the Fulgrim story in any way.
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berzerkmonkey posted:Agatha Christie wrote a story titled "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side." It's a legit, artistic way to write the word. Edit: then again McNeill says his title is also referring to the poem, so I can maybe kind of see where he's coming from. Still feels a little gratuitous. 
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I'll firmly cross all the Primarch books off the list, then. Thanks!MMAgCh posted:Christie was quoting a line from a poem (Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott", to be precise), though, where contractions like that were at least nominally necessitated by the metre of the piece. I must have missed the Poirot story where he fixes his moustache while Hastings shoves a large dildo in his rear end 
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Pyrolocutus posted:I'll firmly cross all the Primarch books off the list, then. Thanks! Don't discount the Primarch books because of a bad short story that isn't in them. Do discount the Primarch books because they just retread characterization already shown to better effect in more interesting mainline Horus Heresy novels.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Don't discount the Primarch books because of a bad short story that isn't in them. Yeah, I was going off Iron Rose's characterization anyways, which referred to all of them.
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Pyrolocutus posted:I must have missed the Poirot story where he fixes his moustache while Hastings shoves a large dildo in his rear end It wasn't in The Fisting of Roger Ackroyd or Hickory Dickory Cock? I just finished Ten Little Fingers and didn't see it in there.
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The Iron Rose posted:Wasn't that in one of the Emperor's Children Horus Heresy books? The book with the rear end rape was called “The Primachs” and is from the HH series. I may have that mixed up with a seperate series ALSO called “The Primachs”. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13258970-the-primarchs isoprenaline fucked around with this message at 10:02 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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The Iron Rose posted:Read like one of those fake sections you get sometimes in pirated BL ebooks I'd be thrilled to hear some examples.
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Baron Porkface posted:I'd be thrilled to hear some examples. tbh I expect them to be copy/pastes from porn fanfictions
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Baron Porkface posted:I'd be thrilled to hear some examples. The entirety of Space Marine by Ian Watson quote:“WE’RE GOING IN through its anus,” Biff whooped boisterously. Indeed. Indeed. What else could that puckered sphincter be, in the white bony hull of the vast, gastropoidal alien vessel? The leviathan that loomed ahead seemed a cross between a nautilus and an omnivorous, space-faring snail. It was the length of a four-K asteroid, and almost as high where its shell spiralled upward in a circuit of increasingly small osseous chambers. The shell was bleached chalky by aeons of radiation. Even as the armoured Fists, tightly packed into a stretched boarding torpedo, stared at the forward view-screen in its mount of bronze bones, that sphincter pulsed. It expelled a quick milky cloud, which the torpedo’s sensors assayed as consisting of bitter liquid dregs, foul gas, and ashy debris – the fart of a leviathan…
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Just finished the Devastation of Baal. It was alright, the more frenzied Blood Angels kinda ruined the immersion a little, but overall it was lots of action and most importantly, it took place in the more current timeline. So far I've read: The Emperor's Legion Dark Imperium Devastation of Baal What, if anything, is available to read in the current timeline, or leading up to it? Are there any books covering the Indomitus Crusade, the current fall of Cadia? I believe there is a short story book I haven't grabbed yet, but any other actual novels? No spoilers, just book names and maybe a summary. I've asked before but I think this is it. With the exception of some of the actual game fluff books which appear to be out of print now because they lead up to the release of 8th edition which is the dumbest loving thing ever.
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