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I'm lucky my brain only made me do this with like... The Complete Works of Shakespeare and In Search of Lost Time and not some utter nonsense like these books or the Bible.

Well, if anyone knows it's the person who's read every one

I liked First Heretic, and Fulgrim was okay.

The OP was correct as hell, but honestly it's worth the time investment just to get to The First Heretic

it is a bit slow, yes.

Some of us can finish a book in a couple days, man. Dunno what to tell you.

Yeah it's really funny I've only ever heard these novels from the perspective of filling in gaps in the lore but never their actual writing.

Me with Drizzt.

As someone who likes the Horus Heresy more than modern 40k this wounds me, but, I understand.

Should probably have spaced them out with something in between. For example, after I have read three Hours Heresy books, I read three Eisenhorn books. A very varied diet, you know?

My favorite part is how like 5 different titles show up 3 or more times

Reminds me when I asked my cousin if he’d read The Lord of The Rings. ‘Yes. Nine times’ ‘But, why?’ ‘I wanted to find out why I hated it so much’ 😆

They are fun reads 90% of them are also awfully written, also shoutout to some of the most racist stereotypical audiobooks to any books that involve the "Mongolian" space marine chapter

In honor of this post the first time I saw it, I read the first volume. It was easily in the bottom 5% of all the books I've ever read, but it had a sort-of interesting hook at the end. I didn't finish the first chapter of the second. <bows>

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Real, Eisenhorn + Gaunt's Ghosts are like, the only good 40k books

Made me lol and made my day. Thank you for sharing it!

My son hate watched every episode of Big Bang Theory. Which he says is horrible.

🙂"Are they good?" 👼"No"

Hahahaha, wonderful. However, goals. I need to finish my collection.

Skyrim book report

Oh, yeah, the alien supremacists! XD

Oh Jesus I remember that! Mega yikes right there.

I love that in-universe it was written by Beaumont Kin, the historian from Rise of Skywalker. He's one of my Glup Shittos! :D

I enjoyed Timothy Zahn having Mara Jade say about the revived Emperor "yeah, I don't think that was really him"

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It’s a very mixed bag for sure. Same with the many Doctor Who novels. (I fucking LOVED Father Time!)

I will never forgive Bad Batch for taking a character from Republic Commando and making him in name only.

Ok thanks, I never hear it phrased that way so I needed it clarified for my own brain lol

Nothing changed for the EU in 2014. The EU was always non-canon. They just said books, comics, TV shows, and movies going forward would for the first time all be canon.

Ok just to be super clear. My understanding is that all of the other stuff is the EU. Legends is *not* canon. Canon is canon. So what is Legends Canon?

er the first heretic. I am apparantly terrible at remembering titles when exhausted.

There's a reason GW are re-releasing a set of something like 10 HH books that it says is the core story. So I guess officially the rest is filler which is true for a fair few of them.

Know No Fear made me change my mind after two decades of ridiculing them as the UltraSmurfs.

The First Heretic is probably my favorite Warhams novel, Betrayer is also very good and is kind of a sequel.

I do this absolutely all the time

I also thought about it some weeks ago.

"Bros, this is your gene daddy." "Hey" "Sup" "Wanna go break shit?" "yup"

I liked the first 3. Since it was a trilogy.

not nearly as many as there are dragonlance or forgotten realms novels!

No. There are 53 books in the core Horus Heresy series, plus a further 11 in The Siege of Terra and 21 in The Primarchs. (Not counting the audio dramas and uncollected short stories and novellas).

Pffffft

OH NO

I read them, i thought i liked, and speaking with others years later turned out I had selectively forgotten all the stupider parts.

We should get a class action suit going for psy dmg those books caused. Christopher Tolkien: “Frank Herbert’s notes? With enough content to finish the series, create numerous prequels, including an HBO show? Brian Herbert: “Yes” CT: “May we see them after meticulous editing and care? BH: “No”

Messiah is the only good one, but unfortunately you need to read the first to get anything out of it.

Chiaphus Cain for the emperor is pretty good

There's definitely some gems in the Black Library, but there's a lot of crap to sift through in order to find them.

This is legit why I only read source material book lore for ttg, ttrpgs, and YouTube videos. I don’t read novels, with very few exceptions.

I’m 100 pages into the final book and Han and Leia are narrowly escaping YV right on their heels after a military disaster and I’m like this was happening 17 books ago, can we get any progression on the story here?

I picked up a random volume from it in a bookshop when I was a kid. It was Traitor. I think I got lucky.

I enjoyed parts of that, but I would not read it all

I used to think the Vong were scary and cool growing up, but in retrospect, they were trying too hard to make them edgy. We dodged a bullet when they were cut from The Clone Wars.

Rebel Dream and Rebel Stand were probably the only two books out of the entire Vong series were the only ones I remember at all enjoying reading, and probably just because Aaron Allston wrote them and his humor always hits for me. I don't miss any of the rest.

It’s a very, VERY mixed bag. For sure. While it’s not part of the series, I ADORE Rogue Planet (the only connections are Vergere (and she’s not even in the story proper) and Zonama Sekot), mainly because I’m a big fan of the author (Greg Bear) and his other work.

I cannot believe how much time I sunk into those.

Those are my all time favorite star wars series and I think Star By Star was the best individual star wars story ever written until Andor. But you have to like Star Wars as military sci-fi for them to hit.

I think when BDG read all the Halo novels in a year is one of the best videos on the internet

Happiest Warhammer fan

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a friend also read them all and our conversation differed in only one regard "oh god, no"

Reading anything before shadowbringers and after 6.0

Hmmm. Must return to the Star Trek novelverse

That is basically the entire franchise, though it gets quite a bit snappier once you get in the habit of just skimming over any sections involving measurements. I get it, Weber, you did all the math! I don't need to know the exact travel time and distance of every missile!

I read the entire Ai no Kusabi light novel series. It was 100% hot garbage.

That video about the bird getting addicted to glowing juice, but it's reading this series

Its hit or miss at times, but getting into the siege of terra made it all worth it.