I got £100 in Amazon vouchers as a little bonus at work
...so I got myself a backlit Kindle, having previously been strongly averse to the idea of getting an ereader. If you're prepared to combine the idea with wholesale piracy, you can download pretty much every book you've ever wanted to read - for example I've got about 200 Warhammer 40K novels on mine right now.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 13:59, 2 replies)

Warhammer 40K novels.

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 15:50, closed)

it's almost like he's desperate for people to sneer at him yet again

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 15:55, closed)

I'm not the one carrying around 200 Warhammer 40K paperbacks now, am I?

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 16:40, closed)

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 16:44, closed)

sorry, munchkin
you've had your monthly mockery quota
(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 16:49, closed)

Aw that's a shame
I was really hoping to mock you some more
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 16:56, closed)

Look, GW is fine, but you've got to pick and choose.
Collecting and painting an army, and playing the games is fine; the miniatures are fun hobby, and the games are well designed and fun.

But the novels? If you like sci-fi, you could be reading the Hyperion Cantos, or The Culture Series, or pretty much anything by Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Greg Bear, Alfred Bester. I don't mean to sneer (although I know this is coming off as that), but there are some amazing authors out there, producing sci-fi that is also quality literature, with genuinely amazing ideas, and I cannot recommend them enough.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 17:22, closed)

I have everything by Iain (M) Banks on there
Plenty of Asimov, Dick and Vonnegut (and Heinlein as well, 'cause there would obviously be no 40K without Starship Troopers)...it's just that every now and again I want a straightforward story in which about 20 billion people are needlessly slaughtered on some distant planet.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 17:29, closed)

Fair enough, I guess, so long as you've got some of the good stuff!
Seriously though, go and get Hyperion, and the 3 sequels to it... they're really fucking good.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 17:32, closed)

Will do, I just got caught up on the Horus Heresy so I need something new to get to grips with
though I am going through all of Banks again chronologically so it'll probably be another one of his next
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 19:33, closed)

Get yourself some Laundry Files

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 19:42, closed)

Ta

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 19:48, closed)

I really do recommend starting with the first book to avoid massive spoilers

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 21:28, closed)

* this, very much.

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 8 Apr 2015, 1:03, closed)

Could I ask a question please?
Just how much Dick do you have on there?
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Wed 8 Apr 2015, 8:15, closed)

Whatever was in the big torrent of Dick that I downloaded
All the Dick, I'd imagine
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Wed 8 Apr 2015, 12:40, closed)

If you read one a month then it's feasible that you'll read a warhammer 40k novel every month for the rest of your life.

( Zuowan, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 16:57, closed)

I cannot die

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 17:14, closed)

You can't do anything, you useless prick.

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 18:21, closed)

Aw you sound cross, don't get too upset on the internet
we all know what happened the last time you went full walrus
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Apr 2015, 19:46, closed)