Well I'm not going to pretend that they're high literature but the Warhammer 40K Horus Heresy novels are fucking awesome
They're like chick-lit for boys - your average chick-lit book involves a girl meeting an unsuitable chap who's rich and attractive but ultimately an arse, while at the same time realising that the poor guy from IT really does care for her and that's who she ends up with at the end. These books begin with a vastly powerful army of superhuman killing machines discovering some idyllic paradise planet, then because of some silly and completely avoidable misunderstanding, going to war with said planet and reducing it and everyone on it to radiactive rubble. These days I get sniffy if a book doesn't have a bodycount in the millions. Preferably with some hideous mutations thrown in.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:40, Reply)