Gaunt’s Ghosts is particularly amazing if you wanna read some normal soldier stuff and don’t mind depression

Meh. I did not love it, but did enjoy it. Definitely left me feeling dark.

I saw this after posting on another by Sleator. I never read Run, but I got on a W.S. kick in middle school, and I loved everything I read by him. I don't remember them all now, but I know they had a huge influence on my reading habits. I still love weird sci-fi novels.

My favorite is probably The Colour out of Space since it can only really function as a book.

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Not one bit. The prime aspect of their relationship is of fear, from Graham's perspective and of intellectual curiosity and obsession (in a revenge kind of way) from Hannibal's. Every time Graham shows up to talk to the doctor, Levter continually brings up how Graham might have captured him.

The Harry Potter series! I remember having to wait two years to find out what happened next, and it was so exciting.

House of Stairs by William Sleater. It's sort of a dystopia. A group of kids are experimented on in this weird building that consists of endless stairs going up and down, and in order to get food and water they had to perform weird acts.

I can't say that I loved it, because I haven't read it. But based on this post, I think I want to.

If you spend even a little time on the 40k sub, there are eternal battles that rage about certain plot points:

Did Magnus really do nothing wrong?

Why are the Space Wolves like they are?

Fuck Erebus (this one isn't controversial, but everyone hates Erebus, there's even a sub on reddit for it)

Why did the Emperor not rescue Angron's people (when he was found)?

Why did the Emperor let the heresy happen?

And so on.

The story is absolutely ridiculous, but it's fundamentally fun and engaging because it's simple enough to be easy to follow while having enough moving parts to be complex out of the sheer number of characters and moving parts. It's engaging but undemanding.

Upon reflection I think having watched the movies and TV series before tackling the books left me wanting a more dynamic atmosphere, certainly with the TV series which user viveral gore and interpretations of artistic themes like Sandro Botticelli in their construction.

He's writing a sequel to that right now and will write the next Dresden book after. Poor guy went through a lot and had to take a break (horrible divorce, house burned down, etc)

That's wonderful! I grew up reading the Hank Zipzer books over and over again.

Hatchet !

Can't listen to audiobooks or podcasts. Also, can't deal with "learn by watching this youtube video". I WANT MY TEXT DAGNABBIT AND IF YOU NEED TO SHOW ME SOMETHING MAKE IT A STATIC IMAGE.

Mads Mikkelson does a great job worth the role. A more charming but sinister version of Hopkins for sure.

Ive only read Hannibal Rising and Red Dragon so far ad I'm reading in chronological order but I can't say I was particularly swayed one way or another about what I've seen so far.

If anything, it's a worse source for actual lore than anything else. It's kind of a fan parody that requires you to know about the weird ins and outs of 40k to get most of the in-jokes. Vulcan wanting to boop a Catachan Barking Toad is way less funny when you're hearing about it for the first time in that episode of TTS.

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The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian F. Thompson. No relation to my actual life, thank goodness, but it held me absolutely spellbound. I've probably read it 20 times.

The entire series is kind of a "filling in the blanks" around a bunch of known knowns that have been pedalled throughout GW's history. Every single Space Marine and Chaos Space Marine codex came with a potted history of the heresy, the book authors have had to write around these points a lot.

I've learned that audiobooks are really best for light fiction. Even then, starting a new book or series can be difficult for me through an audiobook alone. One thing I've done sometimes is check out both versions of a book from Libby and start reading on my e-reader. Once I'm invested in the characters and story the audiobook is much easier to pay attention to, and I can switch to the audiobook after the first few chapters.

Everyone's story comes to an end eventually. Heroes pass into legend and shape the lives of future generations who become heroes unto themselves.

Plus with regards to Stormlight. Give Kaladin a break, homie has been through enough. At the end of Mistborn I definitely found myself going "I think they've earned a retirement"

It's worth noting that when the Horus Heresy series was conceived, they did not envisage a 54 book series, with a supplementary multi book Siege of Terra series. So the first three books seem really rushed, and Horus' downfall was super truncated. Then the series opens up with many books about different features of the heresy and it turns out there's plenty of things to talk about.

Having read about 75% of the HH books, I would recommend the books detailing the Word Bearers, The First Heretic, Know No Fear, and Betrayer. The stories around the White Scars are supposed to be good (Scars and The Path of Heaven). The duo of A Thousand Sons and Prospero Burns is pretty much essential to understand the underlying issues of the heresy. The Master of Mankind is a direct look into the Emperor's plans.

While the Siege series has it's ups and downs (why does Gav Thorpe write???) it overall has been an awesome ride. I just finished book 1 of The End and the Death which is the first of the two part finale (with book 2 yet to be released) and I really enjoyed it.

Sorry, I guess I kinda folded it into my rant post.

Their Hank Zipzer YA series was one of my favorite series as a middle schooler. I couldn’t have been more different than Hank, but they were roll-on-the-floor funny in a way reminiscent of Sideways Stories from a Wayside School or Percy Jackson, in a way that was family friendly and not at all mean or crude.