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Anyone have a handle on The Strange Demise of Titus Endor? I read the book and am working through the audiobook now, but I still can't figure out what happened to the dancer. Was it being implied that Endor sacrificed her in his dementia?
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I get that you have to be a particularly strong willed, unyielding individual to be an Inquisitor but we've seen Space Marines that show more emotions than Eisenhorn. It could have been interesting to explore what having such a psychologically taxing job does to an unaugmented human mind over decades, centuries. What toll it takes, how he copes with losses we can't even imagine. Instead he's just this relentless robot.
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Jan 24, 2019 17:36
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I am getting a friend into 40k and I've sent him Lords of Silence as his next book to read. I ended up reading the first chapter again yesterday as I was recommending it to him and I got sucked right back in and ended up reading exactly half of the book before I went to bed last night. I've said it before on here and several other people have praised it as well, but you all really really need to read it. It actually may be my favorite 40k book out of everything. It's really extremely well done. Chris Wraight uses a completely different writing style for it than some of his other books that fits the Death Guard perfectly. The descriptions and atmosphere are incredibly well done and are the best depiction of the Death Guard by far. They've become my favorite Chaos faction because of this one book.
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Jan 24, 2019 18:29
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I've been reading the Sabbat Crusade collection and it's not that great compared to the Sabbat Worlds anthology that came out around the time of blood pact. Outside of the ghost stories most of the episodes in Crusade feel pretty poorly developed and several stories felt like they ended way too soon. The guy who has been writing the Volpone Blueblood stories suuucks. I did quite enjoy the story about the pissing match between the Blood Pact commandos and the Sons of Sek garrison. And I know it's only been a few books, but I kinda miss the Blood Pact and Urlock Gaur. Without spoiling anything, does the Blood Pact factor into Anarch at all or is it a solely Sons of Sek affair? Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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Jan 24, 2019 20:34
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I think my favourite part of the second anthology is The Inheritor king, which was the sequel to The Headstone and the Hammerstone Kings from the previous one. Really good AdMech stuff I thought. Also the Volpone story is written by Nick Kyme so.
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Jan 25, 2019 15:40
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So I should avoid anything else this man has written
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Jan 25, 2019 15:45
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Nick Kyme? No he's not great. Probably the worst of BL's regular authors.
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Jan 25, 2019 15:51
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Z the IVth posted:Anyone have a handle on The Strange Demise of Titus Endor? I read the book and am working through the audiobook now, but I still can't figure out what happened to the dancer. Was it being implied that Endor sacrificed her in his dementia? It's been a little while, but I think she is either someone from his past, or just someone he sees and has built her into his dementia.
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Jan 25, 2019 16:05
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Deptfordx posted:Nick Kyme? Yeah he is bad, but his Auric Gods novella that came out recently is actually really good Custodes fiction.
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Jan 25, 2019 16:27
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Deptfordx posted:Nick Kyme? I'm definitely in the minority but I actually enjoyed the Salamanders trilogy. Well, until the final battle. And mostly because I like the Salamander's fluff. Not because Nick Kyme wrote good books. This is probably as lukewarm of a recommendation you'd ever read.
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Jan 25, 2019 18:03
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Was Nick Kyme the guy who wrote the Thunder Warriors/Custodes Super Friends story? I thought it was pretty good? I like stuff that shows life on the bottom that that.
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Jan 25, 2019 18:12
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Gaunt’s face works again??
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Jan 25, 2019 21:45
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Miguel Prado posted:Gaunt’s face works again?? Gaunt's face always worked. Eisenhorn's face, now that's a good question. Probably same way he went from "plodding around like a titan" to "performing leaping overhead chops capable of bisecting space marines."
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Jan 25, 2019 22:28
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Z the IVth posted:Gaunt's face always worked. The answer is Chaos. He'll probably start growing horns in Penitent.
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Jan 25, 2019 23:27
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Zasze posted:Idk man using one of your best friends dying bodies to bind a demon is pretty out there for the dude we started the books with. Abnett is far from a perfect writer but he normalizes the awful poo poo our main man does to the point the reader hardly bats and eye when he starts crossing the line in more dire ways. Isn't that the point though? He's the one person who rationalising each evil as necessary, that's why he normalises it. Road to Good Intentions, all that.
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Jan 26, 2019 00:13
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Still waiting for Mkvenner to appear.
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Jan 26, 2019 11:04
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Arcsquad12 posted:I've been reading the Sabbat Crusade collection and it's not that great compared to the Sabbat Worlds anthology that came out around the time of blood pact. Outside of the ghost stories most of the episodes in Crusade feel pretty poorly developed and several stories felt like they ended way too soon. The guy who has been writing the Volpone Blueblood stories suuucks. I did quite enjoy the story about the pissing match between the Blood Pact commandos and the Sons of Sek garrison. No Blood Pact in the Anarch. hmm I see Syncopated fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jan 26, 2019 |
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Jan 26, 2019 13:25
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Syncopated posted:Also, are we allowed to post piracy stuff? Generally not? I’ll not post the second bit so you can edit it?
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Jan 26, 2019 13:27
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Discord my children. Theres a black library channel floating around I'm still in but idk how active it is
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Jan 26, 2019 14:33
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Don't post book piracy stuff here. If you want free books, go to a "library."
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Jan 26, 2019 14:55
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Finally getting to the new Cain book and it's gone nuts with Amberley's notes. There's one nearly every paragraph. It's up to 80 and I'm not even a third through the book.
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Jan 26, 2019 18:26
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I didn't like it and it's the first one I've read where I was "Ehhh, that wasn't very good". Not because of the footnotes, it just felt super-phoned in to me.
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Jan 26, 2019 21:29
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I’ve been reading a book “Outlander” from a weird series of Necromunda novels and stories BL did in the mid-00s, “weird” because IIRC that’s around the time of Peak-Kerby and the erasure of Specialist Games. It’s pre-Newcromunda’s characterization of the Cawdor as literal Hive Cajuns and it seems p.deece?  Z the IVth posted:Anyone have a handle on The Strange Demise of Titus Endor? I read the book and am working through the audiobook now, but I still can't figure out what happened to the dancer. Was it being implied that Endor sacrificed her in his dementia? I would also like to hear theories on this.
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Jan 26, 2019 22:02
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The Nightvault starter set comes with a 1-chapter preview of Shadespire: The Mirrored City by Josh Reynolds. It was OK enough the setting for the game interesting enough that I wanted to find out if anyone else had read the full book. Is it worth reading? What's Reynolds's track record?
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Jan 28, 2019 01:12
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My Ciaphas Cain Omnibus I got for the book club came with a sample of Straken By Toby Frost at the end and oof. I guess the style fits for portraying the over-the-top nature of Catachans, but I've never really come across straight up bad BL writing before.
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Jan 28, 2019 06:39
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The Malthusian posted:The Nightvault starter set comes with a 1-chapter preview of Shadespire: The Mirrored City by Josh Reynolds. It was OK enough the setting for the game interesting enough that I wanted to find out if anyone else had read the full book. Is it worth reading? What's Reynolds's track record? I am about half way through, it's pretty interesting so far.
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Jan 28, 2019 06:40
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I find Reynolds has a problem with padding his stories out in the middle, but he does good setups and payoffs.
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Jan 28, 2019 08:21
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Spear of Shadows is pretty good. The fact it has a nod towards the Prayer to Crom from the first Conan movie is great. Speaking of AoS books, by other authors, I need to get Scourge of Fate whenever it comes out.
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Jan 28, 2019 15:02
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5tnVODuI-g That's sweet in a 40k kinda way.
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Jan 28, 2019 15:44
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I am about finished with everything in the Humble Bundle from way back, and I just started Path of Warrior by Gav Thorpe. The first chapter or so have not been interesting at all, but does it get any better? Eldar fluff is interesting but It's Gav, so I don't want to waste too much time if it isn't worth it. Edit: Read a bit more last night and the character motivation is almost perfect. The main dude becomes a Striking Scorpion because he's so mad that a girl doesn't like him and he can't deal with it in any other way. Opentarget fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jan 29, 2019 |
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Jan 28, 2019 20:01
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So I just finished The Magos and I really enjoyed it, and there's something about it that I couldn't help but notice. Is this Abnett bringing the whole of 40K literature in a big circle here? During the climax of the novel, when Eisenhorn is going through The Torment and becoming, uh ... enlightened, I couldn't help thinking of old Jaq Draco and the Illuminati. I don't mean it's a literal reference to Watson's Inquisition War books, but it's a thematic re-writing of the same concepts. If it wasn't for the way Abnett uses The Magos to bring all of Eisenhorn's own narrative in a circle, I would probably just see it as a cool idea being reused, but the way it intertwines with the character stuff made it one of the most satisfying 40K books I've read. Did anyone else see it like that?
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Opentarget posted:I am about finished with everything in the Humble Bundle from way back, and I just started Path of Warrior by Gav Thorpe. The first chapter or so have not been interesting at all, but does it get any better? Eldar fluff is interesting but It's Gav, so I don't want to waste too much time if it isn't worth it. Out of the three, it's probably my favorite. It's a very slow start, but I think that's more due to the whole "three intertwining novels" part, so the parts that are used to set up the other characters stories still have to be included to show how they influenced him onto his path. Its also the one that has the most definitive end of the three. Path of the Seer just ends mid-scene, and the last one... well, it ends the trilogy, I'll say that much.
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Jan 31, 2019 19:38
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Just finished up the Cain novels, does anyone know of any good books involving the 'nids? Or just genestealer cults?
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Jan 31, 2019 21:10
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Jespass posted:Just finished up the Cain novels, does anyone know of any good books involving the 'nids? Or just genestealer cults? 'The Last Hunt' springs to mind, though... Well, there's an aspect about it that really annoyed me about the back half of the book. Minor spoilers if you want to be warned: Time Travel shenanigans kind of come from nowhere.
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Jan 31, 2019 21:26
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Jespass posted:Just finished up the Cain novels, does anyone know of any good books involving the 'nids? Or just genestealer cults? I enjoyed Devastation of Baal. Also, which book is it where an operative undergoes extreme surgery to pass as a genestealer and infiltrate one of their cults? Like she gets the four arms and everything and I think it's permanent so she can't go back to human after the mission. That was a cool look at how the stealer cults work.
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Jan 31, 2019 22:02
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Wasn't that the Inquisition War trilogy that had her? She was an assassin that was modified to be able to blend as a two-armed genestealer, if I remember correctly.
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Jan 31, 2019 23:23
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Randalor posted:Wasn't that the Inquisition War trilogy that had her? She was an assassin that was modified to be able to blend as a two-armed genestealer, if I remember correctly. It was. Deathwatch by Steve Parker also deals lightly with a genestealer cult as well as gives some insight into the Ordos Xenos' militant arm. Not really a great read otherwise, though.
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Feb 1, 2019 04:23
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Elucidium by Simon Spurrier is one of the greatest genestealer short stories ever, from the anthnology What Price Victory back in the dark days where the good authors were just Dan Abnett and Bill King.
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Feb 1, 2019 11:32
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gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress LAST HELSREACH IS UP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyx-uwWc3_s
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gently caress yes
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