>I want to read the horus heresy
>There are almost 60 books
Besides the first three, what are the best and most important books that I have to read until I get to the end and the death?
>I want to read the horus heresy. >There are almost 60 books
>I want to read the horus heresy
>There are almost 60 books
Besides the first three, what are the best and most important books that I have to read until I get to the end and the death?
First 3? Read at least the first five, those are pretty great as one cohesive whole.
Beyond that idk, I'm still on like book 7 or 8q
Horus Heresy and 40k books are for listening to while painting, not reading.
The first 5 and then just cherry pick essentially factions you like.
Also this:
The audiobooks are absolutely unnecessarily well produced and with Audible this is by far the cheapest way to get through them without piracy. Get the year of credits for 24 books at like £4 each and then keep an eye on the sales to get the rest for a £2 each.
Pick and choose which ones seem interesting to you and ignore the rest. It's just gonna be power wanking a group of marines until they inevitably get bodied one-sidedly by this OTHER marine who is just the best thing to grace the astartes and the greatest duellist/marksman/psyker/whatever the flavor of the book is.
Who will then get schwacked in turn by the next guy up the powerscaling ladder.
Other than that it'll just hyperfixate on extrapolating about x mystery of the 40k universe that never really had to be answered. Also, that answer will be gravely disappointing because the authors are wholly incapable of writing anything larger than life.
I tried hacking my way through from the beginning, and there's a ton of genuinely shit, shit books in there.
Just read everything by abnett, ADB, and wraight in the order they came out. You'll be able to fill in the gaps and you'll be getting the best of the series.
>ADB
He used to be considered shit (or at least very divisive) what happened?
He's still divisive. That anon just ends up on the "liking him" side of the divide
And the horsery stuff isn't his most divisive if I'm being fair
Took me 30 books to realise that they are all virtually the same and I am reading corporate fanfiction on two pages of lore from the 80s.
It's not much to read them all. They're very short books so you could finish each in a day or two of reading if rushed or more slowly over the course of a week. Whether you would want to read them all though is the main question... (see )
>almost 60 books
uhhh who tells him?
First book was actually good, second book was decent, third book was weak so I decided it is not worth my time to continue.
"Know No Fear" is awesome, I recommend it even as a standalone.
Aside from that, HH books are just for seeing what "your dudes" were up to ten millenia ago. In the grand scheme of things, most of them are filler.
Like Alpha Legion? Read "Legion".
Like imperial assasin fuckery? Read "Nemesis".
Like to torture yourself? Read "The Outcast Dead".
None. They're all garbage and have been a disaster for what was WH40k, essentially establishing nu41k even before Fall of Cadia.
>I want to read the horus heresy
That was your first mistake
Read the first 5, and then after that read about legions that interest you or books that sound cool. Other anons who are more well versed in the series can list some books that you absolutely should not read because they're ass
I've read all of them or near all of them. Honestly, just start at End & Death because the deepest thing in the books is the Dramatis Personae.
I’ve just started also, about to finish Horus rising this week.
I’m gonna read the first 5 and then get a little more selective, but I also change considered going in chronological order instead, starting over with valor