Warhammer 40k book recommendations
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Caporegime
I'd rate the ones I've read in the following order:
Horus Heresy
Eisenhorn
Ravenor
Grey Knights Omnibus
Soul Drinkers Omnibus
Horus Heresy
Eisenhorn
Ravenor
Grey Knights Omnibus
Soul Drinkers Omnibus
Soldato
If you like all out death and gore, you wanna try out the Gaunts Ghosts books, its just death incarnate.
Soldato
True. If you want to read something 40k related and youve never read any before, you need to start with Dan Abnett stuff, hes a legend.
Commissario
Aye, Gaunts Ghosts are great 
None of that namby pamby pampered marine stuff, with their fancy power armour and good weapons, going into a battle with years of training.
It's the guard where it's at, with your AK47 type gun, and if you're really lucky a bullet proof vest and gas mask
None of that namby pamby pampered marine stuff, with their fancy power armour and good weapons, going into a battle with years of training.
It's the guard where it's at, with your AK47 type gun, and if you're really lucky a bullet proof vest and gas mask
Caporegime
Anyone interested in Dark Angels should read Angel of Death by Gavin Thorpe. Well written and has one of the biggest....wow.....moments in any of the 40k books.
Soldato
I'm on the last of the Gaunts Ghosts omnibus. Very good read and I've tended to only really read space marine related books. Got Ravenor after. Eisenhorn is very good too.
Titanicus is really good too and hoping there are more in that genre. Horus Heresy is a good series although some of the books are better than others.
Haven't got time to play or paint anymore so books are my only link (although I've blown a fair wad of cash recently on Space Hulk 2009 and professional painting commissioned)
Titanicus is really good too and hoping there are more in that genre. Horus Heresy is a good series although some of the books are better than others.
Haven't got time to play or paint anymore so books are my only link (although I've blown a fair wad of cash recently on Space Hulk 2009 and professional painting commissioned)
Soldato
I read Titanicus straight after reading Mechanicus from the horus series, both well recommended.
Permabanned
I read the blood angels omnibus by James Swallow, I thought it was great but notice all the online reviews absolutely slate it.
Caporegime
You kind of have to read them in order really
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horus_Heresy#Novelization
Associate
HH series is excellent and well worth a read. My personal favs are the previously mentioned Gaunts Ghosts series - absolutely brilliant and I can't wait for him to write some more. Basically it's like the Sharpe's series but set in a violent & bloodthirsty future and without Sean Bean bedding everyone!
Basically read everything in the 40k universe by Dan Abnett and will you not go wrong. Eisenhorn is another great trilogy.
The Ultramarines books are pretty good as well by Graham McNeil.
Basically read everything in the 40k universe by Dan Abnett and will you not go wrong. Eisenhorn is another great trilogy.
The Ultramarines books are pretty good as well by Graham McNeil.
Caporegime
HH is one long series, GG is several story arcs.
HH is progressing at a pretty steady rate (2 books a year)
Which one should i read first?
Caporegime
I haven't actually read Gaunt's Ghosts yet. It depends what appeals more to you:
The thought of ordinary soldiers battling...
or superhuman warriors grown to fight in the toughest situations man can encounter, all in part of the greatest betrayals in the Warhammer universe.
You can guess where my vote stands
The thought of ordinary soldiers battling...
or superhuman warriors grown to fight in the toughest situations man can encounter, all in part of the greatest betrayals in the Warhammer universe.
You can guess where my vote stands