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original thread had gaming relevance :
https://lemmy.world/post/38269946
If this is hated on I’ll delete the thread (EDIT) I guess not.
Accurate, although there are exceptions. Betrayer + First Heretic come to mind, those were fun.
Flight of the Eisenstein is pretty good too. But… none of the HH books have ever really grabbed me. 40k has some truly good pieces of science fiction (The Infinite and The Divine (probably the best warhammer book, I don’t even think that’s a contentious claim), Ruin/Reign, Flesh & Steel, Assassinorum: Kingmaker), but I was always kinda underwhelmed by the 30k stuff… idk what it was. Maybe the inevitability of the setting?
I only started reading Horus Heresy because the first novel is by Abnett. Took me until like the 15th to realise the rest of them suck.
Yeah, I really respect what a literary undertaking it was but… jesus christ, when the recommended reading order has to come in the form of charts like this maybe you should prune down the number of entries in the series guys.
This image keeps crashing my phone’s browser from the sheer size, which just makes your point even funnier.
Dont forget all the fun Ork/Red Gobbo books. Mike Brooks is a treasure. Definitely agree on Infinite and Divine too.
But yeah a lot of HH is pretty meh even if youre into it.
Oh jeeze yeah, Brutal Kunnin’ was so much fun. I still have yet to pick up most of the other Ork ones, I remember Prophet of the WAAAAGH! being another one that’s just a genuinely good piece of sci-fi. Still have yet to read the Red Gobbo books, really need to get around to that one of these days. Savoring the good fiction, I suppose…