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Book Reviews
Topic Started: Sep 12 2008, 06:51 PM (86 Views)
tim
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What's your favourite 40K book, what's your least favourite? Well now is your chance to write what you think. If you think "descent Of The Angels" was the greatest thing since sliced bread write it, and if on the other hand you enjoy a well written book and therefore think "Descent Of The Angels" was nothing more than big pile of faeces and quite frankly the inquisition should ship the author to the eye of terror as a reward then now is your chance to write it.
When writing the review please use the correct grammar i.e. no txt speak and if possible give it a mark out of 10. If your review consists of "Descent Of The Angels = Shit mark = 0", although entirely correct for this particular book, it doesn't give the reader a clue as to why is a heap of dung, so elaborate as much as you want, and yes in case you hadn't already realised I do think DOTA is a great big steaming heap of manure.
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Rick
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Whilst not a 40k book, I have recently read through the "Blood Bowl Omnibus", featuring the first 3 Blood Bowl novels. Overall I enjoyed them, and was surprised to find that each book, despite being relatively short (250 pages or so each) depicted the events of an entire season (although the hero's team is not usually invited to the Dungeonbowl and on one occasion can't make the Chaos cup). Therefore, each book culminates in the Blood Bowl Final, which, in true Rocky style, they at first lose.

They are well paced books that don't focus too much on the minutae of the game, and really just skip from event to event. There are a core group of players (the thrower hero, "Dunk", the captain, the Ogre, the catcher and the lineman) who get lines and are part of the plot(s), whilst the other players making up the team are there to die, and often not even named. There are other, non-team recurring characters, including the team's coach, Dunk's Halfling agent, his "long lost" brother who just happens to be the star blitzer of their bitter rivals...

Overall I'd recommend it to anyone with an interest in Blood Bowl, but there is one major failing - whoever edited the book for errors must have been drunk that day - there are some serious issues where parts of the book don't make sense until you realise that the wrong team name has been used, or the wrong player referred to, or so on.

I don't like giving throwaway "out of 10" scores to things, as people just skip to them, and they mean nothing without the context of the preceding review, but this is a good, but not exceptional set of books which would score at least a six, and perhaps a point more if not for the lack of error-correction.
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Won: 6 / Lost: 3

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darth tater
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I agree the "bloodbowl" omnibus was pretty cool! B)

The "Horus Heresy" series on the whole is awesome, some of the characters you really start liking even though
you know they're gonna die or turn to chaos........

The "Soul Drinkers" series is also one of my favourites!
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A long way off being fully painted......................
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ogretyrant83
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Once you read one soul drinkers book you have read them all, thery are all the same after the first.

My Favorite 40K books will have to be the Gaunts Ghosts series Dan Abbot is an ammazing Authur and the latest Gaunts novell 'Only in Death' gives a nice differant take by giving you a haunted house feel to it.

The Horus herasy books are amazing but that is only to be expected as well its the biggest part of the 40k universe.

I have a VERY BIG collection of Black Libary novels, the background and history is my Fav part of Games workshop over the games and models any bit of lore I can find on it and I read it!

I have just fineshed the first Nagash novell from the Fantasy novell versian of the Horus herasy called The time of ledgends which I think there will be three trillogys following the rise of Sigmar, Nagash and Malekith which covers most of the history of the 'old world'

At the mo I am reading the 40K novel Red Furry which is the third part of a Blood angels series following the rise of a Battle brother finding a holy relic of the primarch and becoming the reincarnation of him or is he....

P.S I love books!
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