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Anonymous
06/12/12(Tue)11:47
No.2715306

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Anonymous 06/12/12(Tue)11:47 No.2715306

Are the Warhammer 40k books any good?

Anonymous
06/12/12(Tue)11:48
No.2715307

Anonymous No.2715307 06/12/12(Tue)11:48 No.2715307

0/10 get out!

deathfuck !!PklrNon/Hpq
06/12/12(Tue)11:51
No.2715308

deathfuck !!PklrNon/Hpq No.2715308 06/12/12(Tue)11:51 No.2715308

>>2715306
ask on /v/ or /toy/ or somewhere else.

Anonymous
06/12/12(Tue)11:56
No.2715311

Anonymous No.2715311 06/12/12(Tue)11:56 No.2715311

>>2715308
Im talking about books kind sir.

Anonymous
06/12/12(Tue)11:56
No.2715312

Anonymous No.2715312 06/12/12(Tue)11:56 No.2715312

Not OP.

A friend gave me a big stack of them to read. They are tattered and well worn. They are the only books he reads.

I started to slog through the first of the Guant's Ghost novels but I can't finish it for the life of me. The writing is choppy, the action is monotonous, the characters are uninteresting, etc. I didn't realize how spoiled I am by the /lit/ canon.

Cool setting though.

Anonymous
06/12/12(Tue)11:57
No.2715313

Anonymous No.2715313 06/12/12(Tue)11:57 No.2715313

>>2715311
Sorry. I thought you said "Warhammer 40k books". You meant actual books? Sure, what sort of books are you interested in?

Anonymous
06/12/12(Tue)12:02
No.2715331

Anonymous No.2715331 06/12/12(Tue)12:02 No.2715331

Yeah I loved them

well some of them

as a child.

deathfuck !!PklrNon/Hpq
06/12/12(Tue)12:03
No.2715333

deathfuck !!PklrNon/Hpq No.2715333 06/12/12(Tue)12:03 No.2715333

>>2715311
I know that youre asking for 40k books, and /lit/ cant or wont help you that much.

Anonymous
06/12/12(Tue)12:04
No.2715338

Anonymous No.2715338 06/12/12(Tue)12:04 No.2715338

>>2715313
Well normally i prefer older more philosophical books (Candide, A Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange)

Anonymous
06/12/12(Tue)13:29
No.2715455

Anonymous No.2715455 06/12/12(Tue)13:29 No.2715455

Abnett's OK, though he flies fast and loose with lore consistency. Ciaphas Cain is generally considered OK if a bit hack-y and repetitive. A lot of the books aren't THAT bad, if you like schlock. It's really more an issue of separating the "acceptable schlock" from the "deviantart fanfic" tier writing, than that they're all uniformly bad. After all, the authors are just random scifi/fantasy writers who were commissioned to write for the setting. A handful are gonna be decent.

Still, /tg/ would be way more helpful about this since they've read more of them than /lit/.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)00:25
No.2717014

Anonymous No.2717014 06/13/12(Wed)00:25 No.2717014

>>2715455
>the authors are just random scifi/fantasy writers
Are they, though? I thought they effectively applied for the job and weren't established authors beforehand. Established authors wouldn't generally like to tie themselves down to shitty 'canon'- at least, not while they still have hope that they can succeed by being original.

Also, I do know at least one of them was a games designer who started attempting fiction and OH JESUS IT SHOWS.