/lit/ - Literature

Let's talk about the Horus Heresy series. I will tell a story to set this up. About eight years ago I started reading this series. When I was even younger I was a long-time fan of 40k Black Library fiction, including authors like William King, Dan Abnett and others. After the Gaunt's Ghost's series and Eisenhorn, I'd stopped reading 40k lit for some time. Then Abnett released Horus Rising which really got me back into the game. Over the next two years I even read the next five or so books in the series, however, I was disappointed to discover that they were all terrible and that only the Abnett versions were even close to being interesting. After Abnett's Legion I took a breather for four years. On someone's recommendation I picked up Know No Fear which got me back into the swing of things, and I've just recently finished Prospero Burns. I'm wondering about the Unremembered Empire, which I'm guessing is going to be another Abnett cover of Asmiov (going by the name alone). I do have the Mark of Calth short story collection, I might read that in the meantime, but I fully expect all of the contributions besides Abnett's to be abysmal.

my parents read more than watch tv, and as a kid they always nagged me or forced me to read and write book reports for them. which really took the pleasure out of it.

id read once in a blue moon throughout life, but only like...a book or two per year. and that's if I even finished them. and even as I grew older I still had my dad nagging at me to read more when all I wanted to do was play vidya instead.

HOWEVER
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I've been needing to cut back on spending and I can't afford too many vidyagames or TV. So I decided that with my taste, I should try some hard scifi or fantasy, especially since I always thought they were so ridiculous in the past and I couldn't take them seriously.

One day I picked up "Know no Fear" by Dan Abnett, and now I've started collecting Warhammer novels and I try to read for a while each night before I go to bed. At least a chapter or so. Or if I have to wait somewhere, I always keep a book with me to read.

it's awesome. ever since reading that one book, I've been much more willing to look into other one and finally really enjoy myself and take pleasure in letting my imagination go nuts.