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Me, after watching 8 seasons of some idiotic streaming show.
“I just wanted to know how it ends!”
It never really pays off, just read a summary.
And that’s how I disappointed your mother.
That’s how I handled most of the New Jedi Order books, the mainline Star Wars Legacy books that take place after that, and also the Dune books by Brian Herbert and KJA. I’ve only properly read up through Dark Journey on Star Wars, and only the first three books of the latter day Dune books.
The Star Wars books at least sound good in outline form. I’m not about to spend any time reading them for real to find out otherwise. The latter day Dune books, OTOH, sound like absolute shite even in the summary.
I read a bunch of the star wars books that came out after disney took over. They were… Not good. Like 4 out of 15 or so were even okay.
This was me and Manifest.
I’m glad I gave up after season 2. I kept waiting for something important to happen, but all I ever got out of it was poorly written family drama.
Was that before or after the whole thing turned into a Bible story?
Supernaturals
Assuming you mean Supernatural, while I didn’t care a lot for the Leviathan storyline, I’m glad that I made all the way through since it picked up again after except the very last episode which I didn’t care for. Ending on the second to last episode would have been perfect for me.
season 5 was suppose to be the true ending, because of kripke, he gave up after people wanted to continue it. outside of 8, and 11, every other season was pretty bad. also jack was apparently shoe-horned instead of using jessie turner as the anti-christ in the show.
also the downplaying of angels, demons, and pagan gods really irked some people.
I got drunk one night and bought all of them in paperback from Amazon. ALL of them. Think I’ve read 12 or so and the rest are just in a box. Don’t drink and shop folks, I still haven’t even opened any of the omnibuses
Same, but I bought the Culture novels. They were fine, except the ugly parts.
The Culture is fantastic. Except the ugly parts.
I’ve given up on Consider Phelbeas after the starving cannibals bit, which was completely unnecessary and gross as hell.
That part is an oft recommended chapter to skip, just go forward a dozen or so pages until the protagonist murders a drop ship AI that was happy to help him.
Which part of him being a mercenary for an aggressive fanatical race waging a war of expansion lead you to believe he is supposed to be a good man?
This sums up all of Warhammer in 3 comments.
I’ve dislocated my shoulder fourteen times. Somewhere amongst those dislocations, I had a surgery to stop it from happening again. (It didn’t work.) However, the surgeon apparently forgot to write a prescription for the kind of medicine that one would usually have after having a shoulder sliced open. As a result, I didn’t sleep that night and, as a further result, I read the entirety of a Warhammer book.
(I’m not actually sure it shows up in this stack; I think it was a witch hunter series. Most of what I remember is some nemesis severing the tendons required to smile.)
Anyway, I haven’t dislocated my shoulder in a while - whether due to surgery or fortuity I couldn’t say - but the above is all that comes to my mind when I think of Warhammer books. Also, I now have three tiny scars about my shoulder.
That could be a couple different ones.
But, Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn had his ability to show emotion severed during interrogation by an enemy, and due to that person’s ineptitude at torture, he lost the connection for some nerves in his face. I’m reading that series now, having started several books too far into it and finding a ‘you’re the clone of other character from the first few books’ and needing to restart so I could get the full context
I’m sorry for explicitly disregarding your username, but there are multiple books in which Eisenhorn (thank you for reminding me of the name) has his expressions disabled?
I am not far enough to know if it happens an additional time, or if he ever gets them repaired. In the book I read first (supposedly 7th in the series, by mistake) it seemed he could make some expressions but that takes place a while after the first book in the series that I’m wrapping up, where it has just recently taken place.
The first book is called Xenos, at least that’s where I’m reading that covered the paralysis part.
It never gets repaired.
It’s a trilogy of trilogies. Each with a focus one 1 person. Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Bequin.
They are great books in my opinion. I loved them.
It’s never too late to walk away from things that suck. Crappy relationships, shitty jobs, bad books, you have the power of choice.
I know and I choose to suffer! Why? Because I can!
I read all of the Left behind books … Am I Christian? No. Are the books really well written? Also, no. Why did I read them? I guess for the lols
I read them all back in high school when I was a good, Christian boy. Loved 'em. Read them again within the last couple of years. Even with the faith aspect removed, they’re a fun enough read. Doesn’t take much brain power to get through them
I read all of them in second grade and was obsessed/traumatized. Now as an adult I’ve realized they’re airplane fiction - mindlessly easy to read, not well written. It’s funny when you realize Buck and Rayford are author self inserts.
I like to pick them up from thrift stores now and mutilate them for art projects.
Some are pretty good.
Some are pretty not.
I got suckered in because the first book was by Dan Abnett, and I ran out of both Eisenhorn and Gaunt’s Ghosts, so Horus Heresy sounded like a good idea. I read about a dozen of them before I realised the poor quality of most of them outweights by investment in the story and gave up.
Yeah… Dan Abnett is the pretty much the only writer keeping the black library from being a huge pile of trash.
The writer for ciaphas cain too!
They didn’t expect the success of the first few that made the times best seller list, thats like massively more than they expected to sell, so they increased the planned number and the quality dropped massively as they expanded to the authors to suit.
If you read just the best books you’d still get the same favour but cut it to about 20 books or so, including the best ones in the Siege of Terra that are the actual ending.
Any suggestions to the better ones? I’ve been wanting to branch out into the books.
Gaunts Ghosts is great as well.
Read Einsenhorn. Not a part of Horus Heresy, but it’s WH40K and it’s awesome.
I think this list is pretty close to the best books, you can jump off with series based on your favourite characters like Garro if they click for you: https://booksreadlisten.com/best-horus-heresy-books/
Couple those with the Siege of Terra but skip may be the first wall (as I detest Thorpes writing) and Mortis as its a bit boring.
People might say that way spoilers lye, however the ending was main lore even before the series started.
This is me and Brandon Sanderson, but the answer is most definately: Yes.
Same for Sanderson. It seems like he tries to subvert expectations at the end of every book 2 but he only ends destroying everything he’s established.
I completely stopped reading his stuff when I found out that he is a Mormon and graduated from BYU.
As a non-american, whats the significance of BYU?
It’s owned by the Mormon church. It has a history of expelling female victims of SA and racism. Freshmen are required to read a talk by one of their church’s apostles that basically says they may have to resort to violence to keep “woke” away.
The church itself is misogynistic, homo- & transphobic, and racist (not officially anymore but it’s so integrated into the culture that it’s never going to go away).
I only see like 45 books here. Isn’t he missing half of them?
Almost 600 episodes into One Piece so far. Already worth it.
So when did it start getting good?
Honestly if you don’t like the first few episodes you’re just not going to like it. The plot and character development are decent but the tone right of the bat carries through the whole manga/anime.
There’s a crap ton of duplicates?
Seems so: 2 are doublets and 5 are triplets (if I’ve counted correctly)
I 100% Dragon’s Dogma 2 despite hating every minute of it because I got it on PS5 and couldn’t refund it anyway. I had to milk my money back out of it somehow.
I wasted money on this, but to make up for it, I also wasted my time
Me after watching one piece
Is there a better way to absorb warhammer lore ?
Get some other nerd on YouTube to read it out so you can be a nerd with different stuff.
My method was to play Warhammer: Total War with a friend who knew all of the lore and constantly ask him stuff about the armies we were fighting.
if you have a couple hours per video to kill, Luetin09 on youtube. Otherwise, and honestly this is how I learned most of the lore, youtube shorts. Astartesanonymous gives the best shorts with a basic introduction and then lore. Isyander & Koda is another good channel.
Leutin09
Date trans girls
As a person who’s not into the table top games, but loves the lore.
I watch/listen to a few channels:
WesHammer - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDj6ttwzj2sr464jDdg_pA
He does a short introduction (on camera), then the rest is audio with relevant artwork and some video from the games.
Aside from the usual deep-dives into the various factions and popular characters, I enjoy his Grim Dark Story Hour vids. These focus on creepy (horror) short stories from random Warhammer books, where Wes does some voice acting as well.
The Sleepy Hollow - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC86zNGwCUt5gBnizRSWSLuA
Warhammer lore (and game lore). It’s meant to be for helping people get to sleep. But I listen to it during the day. If you do use it for sleep, watch out for the super loud Youtube ads that play in the middle, if you don’t have Premium or use Peertube.
There are a lot of other Youtubers that do good content as well, like Arbitor Ian etc.
The top two are my recommendations.
They could make a entire movie about one warp jump through hell. Great shit but I ain’t reading all that.
