#40k-book-club

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void stirrup
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Yes. They do. War of the beast. Again during apostasy. Again after the battle of lions gate at the start of dark Imperium.

tall phoenix
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Again

tribal crater
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Moments of extremity =/= day to day happenings

tall phoenix
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thats not Terra

void stirrup
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You cannot argue both ways, that they don't care and simultaneously won't

tall phoenix
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you wont get away with burning entire spires to the ground in humanity's homeworld

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the entirety of the Imperium's bureaus are stationed there

tribal crater
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Aodyri you're really bad at this. Just saying

tall phoenix
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they will do something or object to it

void stirrup
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Did you read the book?

tall phoenix
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Yes I have.

magic sable
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Too long and some terribly uninteresting characters. I wanted more Saul Tarvitz and Lucius, instead I got the most whitebread loyalist of a traitor legion ever in Solomon Demeter.

tall phoenix
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Theres literally 0 contradictions.

void stirrup
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Because this is EXACTLY what happens. A spire of the Inquisition is attacked miles from the imperial palace.

tall phoenix
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Every 40k book since the 80's has established terra is shithole

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so now we are just jumping from point to point since people that arent even me prove your points false

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so much for calling me troll lol

void stirrup
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No-one has proven anything

tall phoenix
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We have but okay

void stirrup
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You are. As you jump from point to point as I address it and try to get you to actually respond?

magic sable
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Also can we please not spoil the Vaults of Terra books for people, regardless of opinions on the quality of said books

tall phoenix
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I DIDNT.

tribal crater
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Ah dammit, embed fail

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Oh well, still applies

tall phoenix
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Yeah gifs are blocked here

tribal crater
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Yeah, rip

agile hedge
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Since its not a gen-chat and supposedly a bookclub chat

teal igloo
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oh I see

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its the domain

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yea

tribal crater
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Though I think it says a lot here that I'm one to believe newer 40k fans overemphasize the Imperium's awfulness and even I'll call Terra a shit hole of the highest caliber

tall phoenix
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Absolutely

obtuse elm
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AFAIK it’s all gifs cause people were spamming book chat with it

tall phoenix
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and yeah that

tribal crater
obtuse elm
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Aqshy had to bring the ban down from on high

tall phoenix
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Yeah people were spamming dumb "WHY PING" gifs

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they were all lurkers too

teal igloo
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its where people live

tribal crater
teal igloo
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imperium bad because emp dumb and logistical nightmare

tall phoenix
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Im glad real life governments aren't like that

obtuse elm
tribal crater
teal igloo
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its too hard

tall phoenix
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Harsh

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but true

wintry tinsel
timid cove
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Checking in! How's everyone's book progress coming along? 🙂

wintry tinsel
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Still collecting my gotrek books so not quite 40k 😂 still no Esienhorn or Cain books so no contribution from me ;_;7 😂

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Oh and Gaunt's Ghosts obviously

timid cove
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I'm on chapter...11 I think? I'm noticing some parallels between Eisenhorn and Mathias Thulmann, Witch Hunter.

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Both in characterization, being an inquisitor, and plot structure.

wintry tinsel
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Orite it was disabled

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That wouldn't surprise me

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Though once I get all the books in order I'll show a snappy picture of them standing in a row all beautifully Smug

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What do you think of them so far then?

orchid kelp
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I finished Xenos and started on Malleus

copper sphinx
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i also finished xenos a few days ago

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was as good as i remember

magic sable
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I only read Xenos for the first time last year, just gonna cliff notes it when it comes time for the book club discussion

void stirrup
timid cove
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Yeah I'm not quite done yet haha

timid cove
wintry tinsel
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😂 QUALITY OF THE LORE is an endless moebius strip of confusion and inconsistency at times

copper sphinx
timid cove
copper sphinx
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if it is, the coffee talk should be a lot of fun

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ohboy

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gonna be a lot of ffun then

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looking forward to it even mroe

unborn merlin
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Forgot to report in last month but finished the HH novel Fulgrim.

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Thoroughly enjoyed it even if the Dorian Gray inspirations were a little on the nose.

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Overall strong novel and come on…who doesn’t love the Noise Marines?

magic sable
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I couldn’t bring myself to care at all about Solomon Demeter, pretty uninteresting character

lime verge
dreamy ledge
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Lmao fulgrim book is amazing

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There’s a fucking romance triangle in it, is amazingly dumb and awkward

timid cove
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40k goes much harder with the grim dark than Fantasy, it feels like

mellow knot
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It absolutely does. People are harder and nastier and more self serving.

copper sphinx
timid cove
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I was a bit cautious at the start, but it really picked up after the first quarter.

toxic nebula
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Enjoying it?

craggy bone
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I'm currently on Abnett binge, read all Gaunt ghosts novels+short stories, read through Eisenhorn, Ravenor and I'm on first Bequin book. Plan on first 3 Horus heresy books

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my original plan was to go through only Gaunt so I can have a commisar contrast to infamous Ciaphas Cain which I plan to read later on

teal igloo
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Book pretty good

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Love me architectural descriptions

teal igloo
craggy bone
teal igloo
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Xenos has some action sequence flaws but ciaphus is goated with the sauce

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Felicia tayber is the best written mechanicus character in any of the books

craggy bone
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noice, will probably start in a month or so, normally I read at work when it's not busy during autumn/winter because I'm a literal gatekeeper at a castle so you really don't have anything better to do, reading in summer it's kinda hard with all the tourists invading

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after work it's too hot, my dungeon at work is at least cold and comfy

copper sphinx
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you might want to intersperse the cain books a bit

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cause they're all very samey imo

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so gets a bit draggy if you do like 3 in a row

random marlin
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Both Gaunt and Cain are very "special" commissars and are far from what a commissar usually is (which doesn't mean they're not interesting or good characters, of course!).

random marlin
# copper sphinx you might want to intersperse the cain books a bit

That's exactly what happened to me when I read the first three Cain books, they were all structured the same and felt quite repetitive, making me lose interest and I stopped there. Reading something else between two of them sounds like a very good suggestion to avoid that.

copper sphinx
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yeah

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you put into words exactly what i felt

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i still very much enjoy ciaphas but defi intersperse them a bit

magic sable
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Just finished Pariah and boy did Dan write the shit out of that book

glass sparrow
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when I am waiting on another book between either Gaunt's Ghost of Cain's series to be released I alternate between the two, of I start to read another series that randomly caught my interest.

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that said, I need to pick up the next book in the Farsight series.

void stirrup
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Did book 3 of Farsight come out?

glass sparrow
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I don't think so, I know book 2 was released recently

void stirrup
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Oh, thought I had missed a book. Farsight is cool, having a character "learning" the horrors of 40k while being relatively sane and intelligent.