original thread had gaming relevance :
https://lemmy.world/post/38269946
If this is hated on I’ll delete the thread (EDIT) I guess not.
Some look like repeats, I see.
Are they different or did you just re-read them through?
There are 42 books in the picture. Seven months is about 210 days, which works out to a book every 5 days. That seems like an insurmountable challenge for me. I’m such a slow reader.
I too have always been a slow reader, so i cheat. I throw epubs into a reader that uses Google tts as a form of audio book. I typically go through about a book aday now. Definitely a learning curve since i have to teach it to pronounce certain words differently. But after a few years it has me having read over 1500 books. And that does not include rereads.
Hah. I get that.
I’m reading a book series that’s more like a serialized tv show than a novel set. They’re not good, but they’re certainly good enough to grow on me. I think I’m on book 32 or something and actually waiting for the next one.
I really did not get very far in that lore. There’s so much of it and I kept getting really bored.
Even the worse ones are still enjoyable and you get to dive in deep into the lore and special aspects of it. I’m reading #16 atm. Still enjoying the series (and I don’t even play or paint - only books and video games).
Having read one of them, he’s right: They’re not good. The writing is very basic. There might be a cool story in there, but it’s not executed well.
It’s pretty silly but that is exactly what makes Warhammer 40K entertaining.
That was me with the Jack West Jr. Books by Matthew Reilly. Interesting premise and the first couple of books were great, but the later books I purely finished out of my commitment.
As someone who is all about the 40k lore, have no clue how to play the game, don’t have any miniatures, you really gotta take it all in small doses as there’s so much of it or let someone on youtube explain it for you.
It’s good lore, it’s insanely deep lore, and it’s all over the place. Keep in mind it all takes place of the span of 10s of thousands of years. there will be entire novels of the most mundane Astartes chapter/legion. There’ll be legions/chapters you have no clue about because no one has written about them or they get shoved off to the side. I know a lot of the lore but I honestly couldn’t tell you anything about the twin Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon nor their Alpha Legion.
I know a lot of the lore but I honestly couldn’t tell you anything about the twin Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon nor their Alpha Legion.
Just as planned.
I got lost in the 40k wiki for a bit. I’ve tried reading the books a few times. They weren’t bad , just not great. Awesome world building, mediocre story telling. Thus far…
I’ve found the same thing. a year or so ago there was a humble bundle for a whole bunch of 40k e-books so I got it and tried getting into them. a lot of them were just “meh”. The Salamanders book was alright but man does it just trudge along.
I played a small bit in the late 90s, it was fun chilling with my roommate and painting miniatures. Think I spent more time painting than playing though. They never lookrd great but was space marines in red with yellow accents, the odd things you still remember a 1/4 decade later.
A quarter decade was 2024. I think you meant a quarter century?
Sure did. Oops.
They are such good memories. I remember as a kid in the cold winter huddled up to my desk lamp, that got super warm and was the only source of heat, painting my Catachan armoured column…
why yes, I did not understand how to use the Catachans as a jungle army, how could you tell?
I dunno the series and the picture quality isn’t great, but it looks like there are duplicates of the same book several times in there. As far as I could see from the wiki page, there are 64 books listed and only one (The End of Death) has the same title for a 3 volume series. Yet in the picture there are multiple copies of First Heretic, Outcast Dead, Tales of Heresy, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horus_Heresy?useskin=vector#Titles
Once you read the first page, the OCD kicks in, and you can’t quit. All you can do is be glad you didn’t open the phone book.
This hits home for me… Once I start a series I have to finish it. Sometimes it’s VERRY long to finish the more boring ones…
I’m the opposite. Life is too short for bad books. If I’m not into a book within the first few chapters, I drop it.
I was getting into Warhammer 40k lore on YouTube and tried the first Horus Heresy book. I noped right out of there. I read the Sun Eater series instead, and I’m so glad I did.
Stephen King’s “Gunslinger”. Can’t do it.
Uggh, yeah, I read em just to be sure that I don’t enjoy his writing, and sure enough it was not worth it.
Evidently, that was one of his first ever books and the writing isn’t nearly as good as his later writing.
‘On Writing’ was a great look into his mind and process.
Yeah, my partner is reading it right now and I am tempted to do likewise, it seems much more enjoyable.
Strongly recommend “On Writing” if you’re either curious about him specifically or interested in writing in general. I read it over a decade ago for the first time and I still regularly refer to it when talking to people about writing.
Funny thing is, I’m pretty sure there are way more books they missed.
This is just the Horus Heresy, there are WAY more books
60+? 70? I don’t even remember
42 in the image, 65 in the series. I think the whole of the 30k/40k universe is up to more than 300 books now though, it’s insane.
I felt like that after watching all 10 series of Benidorm
Granted, covid was a big part, but there are more than 30 seasons of NCIS across all the series and I’ve seen every damn one of them. Are they good? No
Accurate, although there are exceptions. Betrayer + First Heretic come to mind, those were fun.
Yeah, I don’t remember the specific books but there is a specific thing that I thought was brilliant. One book follows an Astartes that starts to suspect heresy in their ship and he escapes it, he approaches another ship and recognizes the Astartes on the other end of the radio and confides in him about his suspicion and he lets him onboard. Then in another book you follow the story of that other Astartes, who starts to suspect heresy in the fleet and when the radio call comes it confirms his suspicions.
Not the greatest thing ever, but it was a cool thing that I don’t think I’ve seen any other book series do something similar.
That is Flight of the Eisenstein. The part where the Gellar field starts to fail while they’re in the Warp is also quite entertaining.
