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So I was bought an audiobook from the black library. I bought Betrayer and was generally pretty happy with how well done it was. Now I crave more of the same quality. Most of the samples I've listened to on the black library website left me feeling pretty cold. Has anyone else given it a listen and know of others on the same level?
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Sep 10, 2014 02:44
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This isn't what I wanted.
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Sep 10, 2014 05:14
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VanSandman posted:Lessee, Know No Fear is good. I don't know if there's an audiobook for it yet though. Oh yeah. I've read most of the books you folks seem to suggest around here and have been filling in older stuff I hadn't seen before. Betrayer I actually read but after getting a copy of it figured I'd give it a listen since my commute sucks. After it was over Know No Fear is actually the first thing I looked for an audiobook of, I really wanted to find one too.
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Sep 10, 2014 05:15
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MMAgCh posted:But how can he not really want to work toward writing the allegedly horrible death of Ravenor? To be fair, the guy is a pile of organs in a floating box. His existence is horrible. Just dying of old age or an infection would suck.
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Jun 17, 2016 20:01
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I'm years out of date on my black library readings, is there anywhere with a big easy to read list of titles and one sentence summaries of the books? I'm out of the loop enough I can't even be certain about what I've already read since I mostly just borrow books from the library.
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Feb 25, 2019 19:06
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Reading Dark Imperium, I really wish there was a short story (or series of) about the Chrinostrife. Is that already a thing?
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Sep 13, 2019 23:41
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IshmaelZarkov posted:I think it was in the AOSO2.0 rulebook, but there was a great take on Slaanesh where the mortal followers of the other gods are most terrified of Slaanesh, because if they fall too deeply into excess in worship to their patron, that counts as Slaanesh worship. That's stupid and further proof that fantasy is trash. Blood for the Blood God.
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Jan 6, 2020 00:08
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I keep seeing people referencing a "psychic awakening" where is that lore from? Also I've literally never read anything with Corax, is he in any good books?
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Apr 4, 2020 14:19
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Listening to the nightlord audiobooks for the first time (read it the first time) and it really stands out how often ADB reminds the reader(listener) that everyone is standing around in growling power armor the color of midnight. Also red eye lenses, skull faced helm, and more! I don't mind it in audiobook format though, really helps paint a picture in my mind. E: I also love that some phrases read like placeholders. "I'll serve you some of whatever passes for fine alcohol in a place like the one you and I both live in" Sextro fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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Apr 12, 2020 19:34
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Suggest some black library audiobooks to burn an audible credit on! I've read most of the popular suggestions in here, except for anything Horus Heresy that's come out between Betrayer and Siege of Terra. I'm open to re-experiencing any that have particularly excellent audiobook versions though. Just wrapped up listening to the Night Lord's trilogy after having read it and I loved it as much as reading it through the first time.
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Apr 23, 2020 17:03
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Thanks for the suggestions! I can't recall very much about Helsreach despite remembering loving it. Going with that audiobook 
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Apr 24, 2020 23:16
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Amazon keeps recommending the Cacharodon books. They any good?
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May 20, 2020 03:40
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Speaking of Ferrus Manus, what's his/his legions deal anyway? I don't think I've ever even read anything with him or any of his guys in it. Afaik he's just the primarch so lovely lorgar managed to dunk on him so hard he died without even having an epic battle.
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Jun 9, 2020 00:05
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Telsa Cola posted:Weird liquid metal hands and cybernetics. Legion speciality is crippling body dysmorphia to the point that the marines basically try to be as cyborged up as possible. Any good books?
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Jun 9, 2020 00:13
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Try the audiobook of any Siege of Terra books you struggle to read. The production values get them across the finish line easily.
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Jul 11, 2020 16:29
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Biplane posted:Honestly I just think the others just plain wrote better books. The voice of the characters feels all wrong and the pithy comic book dialogues rubbed me the wrong way. I think I commented on this earlier in the thread but I think Sigismund even says hell yeah at one point. This really threw me for a loop. Especially on a re-listen through the audiobook.
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Sep 3, 2020 18:28
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Finished up Infinite and Divine, bolt-porn segments really did feel like clunky-add-ons to an otherwise really fun romp. I can't stop imagining that 1/2 the time Orikan/Trazyn were snarking at each other via "interstitials" that they were just spamming necron memes.
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Dec 27, 2020 03:28
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Sephyr posted:That might have been the worst primarch-fight in the lore so far, but yeah. I mean. They travel through the warp to go places. That does stuff.
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Feb 2, 2021 23:53
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mdemone posted:Hey if anyone in here plays Combat Cards on iOS, I started a goon clan: Awful Astartes is now accepting players. Checking it out now, and is it me or are tau OP??? Also it’s set to private so I don’t see how to join. Sextro fucked around with this message at 01:35 on May 4, 2021 |
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May 4, 2021 01:32
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Warden posted:Ok, it's just me then, because that's not what healthy 55-year-olds look to me. I am used to men in their late 60s, early 70s looking like that. It isn’t just you
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Jun 6, 2021 11:55
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Arcsquad12 posted:Yeah but I want a book about a cavalry troop of oddball sentinel pilots as the protagonists. Fire Caste by Peter Fehervari, has both a cavalry troop of sentinel pilots and they're very much oddballs! It's also kinda great on its own.
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Jun 29, 2021 18:10
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I was reading the Cawl hacking scene from The Great Work and it struck me how similar cyberspace battles and psychic battles are written in 40k. When psykers fight, it's often written that they focus their energy onto a psychic construct like a shark or something and you have an imaginary shark and imaginary eagle bite and claw at each other. In infosphere battles the security system is described as sending spiteful data genies and building cyber walls. It's all a bit silly but not badly written. AFAICT the noosphere is basically an attempt to imitate some beneficial aspects of the warp mashed up with cyberpunk style netrunning. There's the whole thing during the heresy when noospheric networks can conduct the light of the astronomicon and so the data-plagues and whatnot don't wreck up the forges that were using the tech when the Dark Mechanicus made their move. So, it actually makes a lot of sense, sorta, to have psyker and cyber battles be basically the same.
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Jul 9, 2021 23:28
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I’m really rather excited for all the people reading Fire Caste, I saw someone mention it in here way back and ended up reading it and really digging it. Even after having been really impressed with recent black library works by many other authors this really stood out to me as something unique in the black library.
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Jul 10, 2021 16:26
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I’ve changed my mind and part way through, and I am now confident that Gate of Bones is in fact 5/5 real good just for having a custodian telling random traitors the emperor actually isn’t a god before offing them.
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Jul 17, 2021 01:52
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Improbable Lobster posted:They're my Big Favourites and I'm glad they're getting more development and characters and such lately I’m curious to read more about them, any recommendations?
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Aug 6, 2021 14:27
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Magnus thinking he knows something and then being wrong is like his entire Thing. I’d probably take it with a grain of salt.
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Aug 18, 2021 14:16
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So reading the Chris Wraight Space Wolf books, and I’m half way through Stormcaller. And I’m starting to speculate: Are they gonna do a Great Awakening/upcoming 42k story thing where belief makes things real and the wolves really are special and use the power of their planet’s world spirit and not the warp itself.
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Aug 29, 2021 22:05
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BL books are probably just one series away from just delineating plot armor as a measurable stat and part of the universe that characters talk about and interact with.
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Oct 23, 2021 21:08
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Broken Record Talk posted:Warhawk absolutely has some awesome back and forth on the nature of Chaos and its worshipers. I mean. Uh. You remember why Erebus came to visit her right?
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Nov 23, 2021 18:15
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Majorly disappointed that she's now dead, especially that she seemingly served almost no purpose in the overall plot.
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Twice Dead King has a line early on where it's suggested the best counter to the angst is to be a turbonerd. The two old men in I&D are the prototypical turbonerds. It's consistent and I don't even know if anyone meant it to be.
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Nov 27, 2021 14:53
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ADB made Khayon into a Mary Sue because he had to spend his Mary Sue energy somewhere after pouring so much effort into demonstrating how first claw and the night lords in general, suck.
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Dec 14, 2021 20:07
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Khayon is a Mary Sue who spends an entire book completely failing to kill one dude, literally the one thing Abbadon keeps him around for Adb is an excellent writer. Yes.
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Dec 14, 2021 20:29
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ADB writes losers that win big in the end and Mary Sue’s that fall over themselves trying to accomplish simple tasks. It really brings a humor to his series.
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Dec 15, 2021 00:42
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The best part of WH41K is that the universe has gotten so lovely that even Chaos beings are ditching the place for the humans to have.
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Dec 18, 2021 15:23
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I think it’d be the best if Russ gets spat back out of the warp having experienced exactly nothing. The whole ordeal was just 9000 years stuck in a revolving door.
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Dec 25, 2021 20:17
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mllaneza posted:I actually liked Wolftime and its Vlka Fenrika portrayal. Like Gate of Bones it was a slow burn and they really need to fix that before the series completely founders under its own weight, but they're just barely keeping up momentum with it. I came here to basically post this having just finished Wolftime myself. Grimnar wasn’t written like a stupid child, he was written as an old man. You don’t get to his age in his situation by trusting or accepting anything on face value. Also the logic he uses makes a lot more sense if you really feel about death the way the the Space Wolves, especially their heroes do.
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Jan 15, 2022 14:49
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Sephyr posted:As written, Chaos should have burned itself up ages ago, except for some planets of grinning plague zombies where Nurgle won. You’re trying to apply logic to chaos lmao
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Jan 19, 2022 13:21
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I’ve always just imagined after the events of any novel where a small force conquers a planet in the course of a few battles or whatever there’s a decade+ of occupation by a myriad of forces from the rest of the imperium.
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Feb 5, 2022 02:15
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People have started to say things like ERP and SAP and the only things my brain can figure out are “erotic role play” and “special access programs” and that’s not helping my comprehension. What?
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Feb 15, 2022 11:31
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 Thanks for the explainer! Every time I try and understand anything about corporate systems I just start thinking Georges Bataille’s economic theory was fundamentally correct. Also, has anyone else listened to the Ahriman audiobook versions? I’m looking for non-imperial pov audiobooks to listen to in general.
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Feb 15, 2022 13:17
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