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jadebullet posted:Yeah, it's on Audible, which is how I'm listening to it. The bigger problem is that ADB is straight up better at writing characters than Wraight. He's at his best when writing about humans in imperial society imo.
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Foxtrot_13 posted:Get the book out the door as soon as it's edited so money can be started to be made ASAP, the printing can follow when it can be squeezed in. I don't think this is it. They usually release all 3 at once. Lords of Silence has one of the special limited edition hardbacks. I think when they do one of those the normal printed version doesn't come out until much later to get all the limited editions sold.
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So GW are back on the magazine to lure in the kids train. This is actually a decent buy if you spot it http://www.warhammer40000conquest.com/
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PupsOfWar posted:its sad that Vulkan/Salamanders stuff is always done by the worst authors BL can scrape up them and the dark angels get the bad end of the writing stick. jadebullet posted:Yeah, it's on Audible, which is how I'm listening to it. hope they put the night lord novels and the cain novels on there someday.
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Wtf, the English hardback version of Lords of Silence is already available in my local GW store (great read btw)
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That's a much better explanation than my "GW dummies! They get the easily pirated version out first, then put the paper copy out months later when everyone has already stolen the book!"
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so the audiobook narrator for Pharos gives the Night Lords this thick, theatrical, faux-eastern european accent, like something out of a B-movie this makes sense, given that the Night Lords are supposed to be a bunch of nosferatus, but I had never thought of it before is this normal for audio presentations of them? anyway this book is bad but maybe I'll keep listening on the off chance of some good dantioch/polux shipping
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Arquinsiel posted:So GW are back on the magazine to lure in the kids train. This is actually a decent buy if you spot it http://www.warhammer40000conquest.com/ I just hope it comes to Freedom Land eventually. Looks like a p.deece deal?
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PupsOfWar posted:so the audiobook narrator for Pharos gives the Night Lords this thick, theatrical, faux-eastern european accent, like something out of a B-movie The Audio dramas go full-on schatner ham with the accents, it seems like Eastern-European is a go to for some reason- maybe to highlight the cultural drift in the Imperium? The Audionovels aren't awful, but it's a useful tool to help differentiate speakers without your normal formatting.
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Schadenboner posted:I just hope it comes to Freedom Land eventually. Looks like a p.deece deal?
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Almost done with Lords of Silence but I really wanted to say how much I appreciate Wraight's ability to paint a picture with words. Every page he's got this really evocative poo poo going on.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:them and the dark angels get the bad end of the writing stick. Raven Guard, too. Deliverance Lost was bad.
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the drop site massacre was inadvertent brilliance by the traitor primarchs since, in nigh destroying two of the most Reasonable legions, they ensured most of the future astartes would be either ultras or assorted crazymen if there were another hundred chapters of Raven Guard and Salamanders running around, the Imperium would probably be in less lovely condition. (although the raven guard do have more successors than you'd think, given how hosed they were after the Heresy) Horus continues to exact vengeance from beyond the grave every time a blood angels successor chapter goes insane or a dark angels successor chapter fucks off to pursue some sort of shadowy agenda, without there being anybody more stable around to take up the slack PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Aug 31, 2018 |
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Shockeh posted:Raven Guard get it because they're inherently boring as gently caress edgelord Marines, though. I want to like them, I like the general idea of their "style" but even having not read any 40k books aside from the start of Eisenhorn, I know they generally get trash books.
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Shockeh posted:Raven Guard get it because they're inherently boring as gently caress edgelord Marines, though. Nuh uh... Nykona Sharrowkyn is awesome 'cus he's a ninja and stuff and can, like, turn invisible and he shot Fulgrim in the face and beat the best swordsman Lucius TWICE because he's so awesome and.. and... oh god he's such a lovely Mary Sue
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Dog_Meat posted:Nykona Sharrowkyn 
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So I just finished Eisenhorn 2. And the lovely ending made me want to read something else so decided to do a bit of catch up with 8th edition by reading Dark Imperium. Right at the beginning it talks briefly about what Rowboat did when he got back up, but doesn't actually talk about what he said to Daddy-Emperor. So is that in a book yet? If so, which book? I feel like I need to read that first.
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Spiteski posted:So I just finished Eisenhorn 2. And the lovely ending made me want to read something else so decided to do a bit of catch up with 8th edition by reading Dark Imperium. From what I remember what's in Dark Imperium is what you get. Sequel's coming out soon so might be more in that I guess, but for now it's supposed to be a mystery or whatever.
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Spiteski posted:So I just finished Eisenhorn 2. And the lovely ending made me want to read something else so decided to do a bit of catch up with 8th edition by reading Dark Imperium. You didn't like Malleus. I thought that had a great ending. What didn't you like?
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Immanentized posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVghX8opHJU Man, now I just want a silly loot game where you're Trazyn just robbing everyone.
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Opentarget posted:Man, now I just want a silly loot game where you're Trazyn just robbing everyone.  Trazyn makes the Necron retcon worth it all by himself. 
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Greataval posted:I wonder if that custodes in the trailer is constatine valdor. That custodian has a moderate, even sensible amount of bling. And- he's wearing a helmet. Odds are he was on his first day of polishing the eternity gate when he got snatched.
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Deptfordx posted:You didn't like Malleus. I thought that had a great ending. What didn't you like? I didn't like that 50% of the story took 85% of the book, and then the other 50% of the story just took place as a fast summing-up of events in the last 15% of the book. Felt very much like they got close to whatever arbitrary page limit they were setting and thought "gently caress, need to wrap this up". Was very jarring for me. The story itself and the ending itself was fine, it was just, I dunno, unpleasant to read?
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PantsOptional posted:Abnett.txt I can't remember which Eisenhorn book it was, but I swear in my hazy memories an entire arc is wrapped with what amounts to "so my friends all believed me, turned up at the last minute and we all wrecked the enemy's poo poo together. This would leave me crippled - the end".
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That's the third book. After he's basically alienated everyone with his radicalism they all (most anyway) show up for the final battle at the eleventh hour and get poo poo done, then he goes off into the sunset a broken man with a pet daemon. E: Tagged cause at least one person is reading it right now or soon. Come to think of it it might also be the second book. And kinda sorta all three of the Ravenor books. Hm.
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I finally excavated a copy of Ian Watson's Space Marine and this is a loving blast, alright. edit: also a little homoerotic? I can't tell yet.
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Orv posted:That's the third book. After he's basically alienated everyone with his radicalism they all (most anyway) show up for the final battle at the eleventh hour and get poo poo done, then he goes off into the sunset a broken man with a pet daemon. E: Tagged cause at least one person is reading it right now or soon. That's really not how the third one went though. He was betrayed by one of his closest allies and even the ones that stuck with him to the end like Betancore bailed after the last fight. Of his closest three allies zero are with him at the last fight. If Ravenor hadn't helped him out he would have been hosed.
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Hungry posted:I finally excavated a copy of Ian Watson's Space Marine and this is a loving blast, alright. Oh it'll get there. Pendent posted:That's really not how the third one went though. He was betrayed by one of his closest allies and even the ones that stuck with him to the end like Betancore bailed after the last fight. Of his closest three allies zero are with him at the last fight. If Ravenor hadn't helped him out he would have been hosed. That sounds more right, yeah. It's been a hot second maybe I should give them another go.
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New Ciaphis Cain (Hero of the Imperium!) novel is out. Little disappointed since they brought out a hardback they didn't spring for an Audiobook version, I had an Audible credit saved especially. Would have liked to have heard a well read Cain novel. Double bonus points if they'd gotten (I know it's probably unrealistic) Timothy West who did the definitive Flashman audiobook performances. Still it's been a long while and I am defintiely up for a new Cain novel.
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Hungry posted:I finally excavated a copy of Ian Watson's Space Marine and this is a loving blast, alright. Yes, it's basically transhuman homoeroticism made manifest and it's fabulous.
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Finished up Corax. It was a pretty lousy read, but the ending was quite sad. I think I'll just avoid Gav Thorpe forever. Also finished up Horus Rising for the second time. I got the impression, perhaps wrong, that Abnett was still getting used to having Space Marines as the central theme of his writing as opposed to regular humans. It felt like he wanted to really talk more about Pistachio Keeler and all those other people I can't remember. The first time I read this book, I was incredibly disappointed, because it seemed so boring compared to the fluff in the rulebooks. But now I can sympathize. You have to start the story somewhere and develop the beginnings somehow before going to the cool parts. Could it have been better, sure, but I guess the author did what he could with whatever constraints were put on him. An underwhelming beginning, all the same.
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Opentarget posted:Just finished Roboute Guilliman: Lord of Ultramar, and man, dude is a nerd. I had serious problems with that book, the whole secondary plot was massively, massively frustrating.
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