The Flight of the Eisenstein (Horus Heresy)

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Having witnessed the events on Istvaan III, Deathguard Captain Garro seizes a ship and heads to Terra to warn the Emperor of Horus's treachery. But the fleeing Eisenstein is damaged by enemy fire, and becomes stranded in the warp. Can Garro and his men survive the depradations of Chaos and get his warning to Terra in time?

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Bit of a letdown.......2007-08-01

I probably would have liked this novel better if it had not been part of the Horus Heresy series. We've had three good novels leading up to it, and most readers of this series already know what's going to happen: the Eisenstein will flee through the terrors of the warp in attempt to warn the Emperor of his betrayal. The problem is that Swallow doesn't spend very long on the journey through the warp, and the horrors that he describes are predictable, not very scary, and easily dealt with. It's not a bad novel, but it's also not a very creative or exciting treatment of a famous event in the world of Warhammer 40,000.

Mediocre addition to this series.......2007-06-19

This was an enjoyable book, but I think this is more for the actual subject matter (the Horus Heresy) than the writing itself. As with all of this series, I assume the writer had a fairly tight outline to work with.

As already noted, the story follow Captain Garro from events well before where Galaxy in Flames left off through their arrival to the Sol system. Villains were uniformly 1 or 2 dimensional, a weak point of this novel. Some plot devices (Garro's sword) were so transparently telegraphed early on that his use of the sword to kill the psyker alien in the first part of the book was almost anticlimatic.

Worth reading more for the events it describes than the writing itself.

He is of Purpose.......2007-06-07

WOW...did I love this book. Yes I did. Now I have been a historical wargamer for decades, but with my young son have begun building armies for Warhammer 40K. Up until recently I had been reading Abnett's wonderful stories about Ibrahm Gaunt and the Tanith. I was on the verge of reading another of Abnett's books when I spotted Swallow's Eisenstein. After juggling which to get, I settled on this one. I have always been intrigued by the Horus Heresy stuff and this looked like a great entry into learning something about it. And I would recommend to any newbie to the hobby that this book is a great way to see how the heresy unfolds and how one Death Guard Captain finds the measure of his life's purpose as he flees with a message of betrayal back to the Emperor.

The story builds nicely and the characters really grow before your eyes. A good book often reads itself and this one definitely did. I couldn't wait to pick it up each lunch hour and in the late hours of the night. I wanted to know how Nathaniel Garro would get the warning back to Terra and would he indeed discover his purpose.

Of course the answer is YES, but the how is so worth the time in discovering. So throw on the ceramite and clean your bolter, it's time my brother Astartes to follow the trials and redemption of Honour Brother Nathaniel Garro.

The Emperor Protects.

Saved by the last half.......2007-05-31

This book was easily on its way to becoming the most disappointing of Black Library's "Horus Heresey" series, but, fortunately, is saved by the end, and is worth reading.
The first half of the book is largely disappointing because it is mostly a rehash of events we have already seen, told from another perspective, instead of picking up where "Galaxy in Flames" left off.
Garro's experiences through the first 170 pages or so are largely redundant to what we've experienced through the series' former protagonist, and really add very little aside from the small pieces involving Death Guard Primarch Mortarion and First Captain Typhon, and even these are largely undeveloped and bland.
But if you can stick it out, the latter part of the book is rewarding for the savvy 40k fan. Casual fans may be disappointed.

Rises to the Occasion.......2007-05-29

James Swallow takes up the fourth novel of the Horus Heresy series, which follows one of the pivotal historical events of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe. This novel tells the tale of Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro of the Death Guard, a minor character in the previous books, and at its core this is a tale of his personal growth and discovery, though action features heavily as well. He is cut of the same cloth as Captain Garviel of the Sons of Horus Legion and main protagonist from the first novels: able, principled, and introspective. Several Primarchs and historical characters make appearances, including: Horus, Rogal Dorn, Mortarion, Captain Typhon (Death Guard), Captain Tarvitz (Emperor's Children), Captain Sigismund (Imperial Fists), and others.

I have been a vocal critic of M. Swallow's past works for the Black Library, which have been long on purple prose and dues ex machina, and short on background knowledge and plot, so I picked up this book with no small amount of trepidation. However, I must say that this is easily his best work and is a worthy successor to the other Horus Heresy books.

The characters have depth, realistic motivations and reactions, and grow in ways that make sense. Particularly telling is Garro's development as he attempts to come to terms with the betrayal of his own Primarch and that of Horus. Without going into anything that would spoil the plot for others, let's just say that it's well done

The action scenes flow well, and convey an excellent sense of urgency. The opponents don't make stupid mistakes for the sake of the plot - a weakness in M. Swallow's prior works. His descriptions of the Primarchs, particularly Mortarion, feel slightly mundane once or twice, but typically have the proper sense of awe. The ending of the book gives a tantalizing hint of things to come without being a tease.

In short: a solid addition to the Horus Heresy series and a good read that you'll have trouble putting down.

Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil: Why Church Fathers Suppressed the Book of Enoch and Its Startling Revelations

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Cant stress enough
Quite interesting
Great reference book
Hard to Read, Author is bias
Fallen Angels & the orgins of evil

Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil: Why Church Fathers Suppressed the Book of Enoch and Its Startling Revelations
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
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ASIN: 0922729433

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Did rebel angels take on human bodies to fulfill their lust for the "daughters of men"? Did these fallen angels teach men to build weapons of war?

That is the premise of the Book of Enoch, a text cherished by the Essenes, early Jews and Christians but later condemned by both rabbis and Church Fathers. The book was denounced, banned and "lost" for over a thousand years-until in 1773, a Scottish explorer discovered three copies in Ethiopia.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet examines the controversy surrounding this book and sheds new light on Enoch's forbidden mysteries. She demonstrates that Jesus and the apostles studied the Book of Enoch and tells why Church Fathers suppressed its teaching that angels could incarnate in human bodies. Contains all the Enoch texts, including the Book of Enoch, and biblical parallels.

Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil takes you back to the primordial drama of Good and Evil, when the first hint of corruption entered a pristine world-earth.

Contains Richard Laurence's translation of the Book of Enoch, all the other Enoch texts, including the Book of the Secrets of Enoch, biblical parallels

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Cant stress enough.......2007-10-03

Please don't take anything this woman says seriously. Just for fun is what I would call it. No not even that, Dangerous stupidity and conjecture for anyone who is uneducated I have read some of her stuff in the past and was in disbelief to hear her say that Jesus, God himself came to earth to learn from certain mystical religious groups in India and other places Give me a break. There are only three things God cant do, Lie. Die and Learn.
Here again, more of the same BS.

Quite interesting.......2007-08-21

Filled with interesting materials and ideas, however the author's writing style puts me right to sleep. A great writer can turn even the act of watching paint dry on the wall into a remarkable journey. Those authors that wrote Holy Blood Holy Grail should've written this book instead.

Great reference book.......2007-08-18

This book is a great reference book. If you have read the book of Enoch and any other fallen angels books, there are many crossovers, and some indifferences, overall though, this is the book that's easily readable.

This book covers many other books, so you can single handily buy one book and read 2-3.....

Definitely worth putting into your collection

Hard to Read, Author is bias .......2007-07-09

I bought this book because I thought it would help me with an understanding of the Book of Enoch. I am so disappointed that I wasted my money on this book. It is hard to read and the Author has way too much bias in her own "new age" ideas.

Fallen Angels & the orgins of evil.......2007-03-09

I could learn all ahe had to say by just re-visiting the Bible. Nothing new or thought prevoking in this book

History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers
Pants on fire?
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed.
Very Interesting
History as Science Fiction

History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
Anatoly Fomenko
Manufacturer: Mithec
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ASIN: 2913621058

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Very Interesting
A rare view into the mind of a 16th century miller
Microhistory of the masses
Well written, fascinating tale
Keep this book in mind

Cheese and the Worms
Carlo Ginzburg
Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press
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ASIN: 0801843871

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Very Interesting.......2007-07-23

Researching within the archives of the Inquisition in northeastern Italy, Ginzburg came across a set of records describing the trials of an obscure miller from the Friuli area. Menocchio, as he was known, repudiated a wide variety of conventional positions on religion, on politics, and even on cosmology. The title of the book reflects Menocchio's unusual and somewhat naturalistic idea about the origin of the universe. In Counter-Reformation Italy, these ideas were not merely unusual, they were regarded as actually dangerous. Following his second trial, in which Menocchio was found to be backsliding, he was executed.
Ginzburg presents Menocchio as an autodidact synthesizing ideas from a variety of sources. Menocchio may have acquired some ideas from Anabaptist radicals who had been active in the Friuli. Other ideas seem to have come from an eclectic, though limited, array of books. As Ginzburg points out, this is an example of the impact of printing. It brought such books as Mandeville's travels and possibly even the Koran into the hands of a lowly miller. Most controversially, Ginzburg argues that many of Menocchio's ideas result from or were influenced by a common European peasant world view whose nature has been largely lost to us. This is an interesting hypothesis which Ginzburg defends very well but it can only be a hypothesis. Neither Ginzburg nor anyone else has the data to evaluate this idea properly. It may be simply that Menocchio was a village crank; an intelligent man with relatively unique ideas.
Regardless of the final interpretation, this well written book provides an interesting view of life in Counter-Reformation Italy.

A rare view into the mind of a 16th century miller.......2007-05-30

It is rare that we can see how common people thought 500+ years ago (another source is the Icelandic Sagas). This book shows that books were read by common people, not just the leaders. In this case, this miller got into a lot of trouble by reading. Lets hope that our current freedom of thought is not restricted in the future.

Microhistory of the masses.......2004-12-13

Borne of the microhistory genre, "The Cheese and the Worms" provides a glimpse into the life of a miller in medieval Italy. No ordinary miller is 'Menocchio', however, as he is inquisitioned for his radical religious philosophies. In a time and place where Catholicism was undoubtedly the religion of Europe, Menocchio harbored unique ideas about religious doctrine, the teachings of the Catholic Church, and man's purpose. Although some of his many ideas contradict others that he had, he was well-read and surprisingly well-educated for a man of his station. As Ginzburg says, though, we must look to the Protestant Reformation and the invention of the printing press as being major catalysts for such learning and religious evolution. Within the microhistory genre, "The Cheese and the Worms" is most fascinating when we ask the question: Was this an isolated phenonmenon or was this a reflection of many people's views? The answer, I suppose, lies with Menocchio, but there is still much to be gleaned from this book.

Well written, fascinating tale.......2002-05-13

Description of a miller with an intresting ('modern') cosmological belief whose rebellion in thought is prosecuted by the Taliban of that time, the Roman Catholic Church. Forced to explain his nonAristotelian views (and, if Ginzburg is telling the truth, he responded extremely well to the inquisitors' questions!), the miller outwits his arrogant, narrow-minded judges and so wins the reward of torture and imprisonment, losing his wife, family, everything in the end. Galileo, who had a higher social position and powerful protectors, suffered no worse than house arrest, in comparison.

Keep this book in mind.......2002-03-04

Anytime you want to tell yourself that the Catholic Church isn't that bad, just keep this book in mind. It is just more proof that the church is the most corrupt institution in the history of time. . .with that in mind. The book is very interesting, it deals with the trial of a smart man at the time who was accused of heresy. So throughout the trial we begin to realize how well read this man is and how well he has developed his ideas. It is a good case study of the life of a common man in 1599.

The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

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Fascinating view of strange early "Christianities"
A Revelation
This book could do with a little less stream of thought, a little more precision
An Excellent Choice
Shoot Out at the New Testament Corral

The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
Bart D. Ehrman
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195141830

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The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, and they all possessed writings that bore out their claims, books reputedly produced by Jesus's own followers. Modern archaeological work has recovered a number of key texts, and as Ehrman shows, these spectacular discoveries reveal religious diversity that says much about the ways in which history gets written by the winners. Ehrman's discussion ranges from considerations of various "lost scriptures"--including forged gospels supposedly written by Simon Peter, Jesus's closest disciple, and Judas Thomas, Jesus's alleged twin brother--to the disparate beliefs of such groups as the Jewish-Christian Ebionites, the anti-Jewish Marcionites, and various "Gnostic" sects. Ehrman examines in depth the battles that raged between "proto-orthodox Christians"-- those who eventually compiled the canonical books of the New Testament and standardized Christian belief--and the groups they denounced as heretics and ultimately overcame. Scrupulously researched and lucidly written, Lost Christianities is an eye-opening account of politics, power, and the clash of ideas among Christians in the decades before one group came to see its views prevail.

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Fascinating view of strange early "Christianities".......2007-10-02

I had no idea that there were such a wide variety of beliefs in early Christianity -- the "winning" group so effectively destroyed all evidence of earlier texts. A great piece of detective work and a very well-written book.

A Revelation.......2007-09-01

This is a great book if you want to read about a war, not a war that was fought with weapons, but one that was fought with the pen. A lot was at stake with each group of Christians thinking they were right and all the other groups were wrong. Even within the confines of the New Testament one can see Paul mentioning "another Gospel" A reader of the New Testament has to wonder what this other Gospel could have been. In the New Testament we can also see that Peter and Paul were at odds with each other on whether Christians should be circumsised or not.

This book shows that there were many other disagreements amongst Christians. Some believed Jesus was a man, some believed he was a spirit. Some wanted to keep the Jewish Law, others flat out rejected the Jewish Law.

Christians even today see God in the Old Testament as wrathful and him as loving in the New Testament. This led one man named Marcion to believe that there was in fact two Gods. He had a huge following up until the 5th century.

Ehrman mentions that these "other Christians" were not small splinter groups. He provides the evidence that we not only have the scriptures that they thought were sacred, but also the Church Fathers' writings which were dedicated to countering these other Christians by calling them heretics.

In the New Testament (Acts) the Christians are portrayed as all united. This could not be any farther from the truth and this book clearly shows this.

Also contains some great photographs.

This book could do with a little less stream of thought, a little more precision.......2007-09-01

The book is a stream of thought project, somewhat. It has more form than that, but instead of going over each of the lost branches of Christianity and clearly setting them out, it mostly wanders over the same thesis again and again.

It has flashes, three pages here, two pages there, of clear, concise and direct information. If you want to understand what a gnostic was -- great, there is a sharp explanation. But if you would like a good explanation of the rest of the baker's dozen of early Christian movements that are gone? No such luck.

Sigh. Wanders too much. On the other hand, once you've read one of this author's books you've pretty much read them all, which is too bad. From the flashes of sharp writing, I'm certain he could have said a lot more and provided a lot more information. Too bad he lacked the discipline to do so.

An Excellent Choice.......2007-08-26

This is the second book by Dr. Ehrman that I have read. It is a nice sequel to my first book that I read of his "Misquoting Jesus." He goes into nice depth of what it was like in the first few centuries of Christianity. Once again, Christians need to take a look at their creeds and consider the need for further light and knowledge from God. I believe in the Bible but I don't believe in false creeds. I dare Christians to find out more about the Bible they know only by their traditions. I dare them to ask God to guide them in their search for Truth.

Shoot Out at the New Testament Corral.......2007-08-19

Because many of the previous reviewers have so thoroughly covered the material presented in Mr. Ehrman's book, we see no need to restate their information. Suffice it to say that Mr. Ehrman is, as usual, thorough to a fault and offers the most difficult material in a completely accessible manner. Some reviewers, in a seeming effort to smear Mr. Ehrman's academic veracity, have accused him of having an opinion. One would hope that he (and every other person that takes the time to write a book) does! After reading many of Mr. Ehrman's books, we have come to the conclusion that his opinion consists of thinking the world might be a more tolerant, if not peaceful, place to live if we could all let go of the thought that our ideas are unassailable truth and the ideas of "others" are not. Mr. Ehrman then presents the reader with an abundant and varied amount of information that may help them to embrace this view. Mr. Ehrman does not make the mistake of telling anyone they must change their mind or adhere to any certain way of thinking, he merely invites the reader to consider the concept that the world we live in might have been constructed along different lines if some historical events had not taken place and others had.

As writers who also have an opinion, our desire would be that everyone who reads the New Testament would also read Lost Christianities or Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus. Yes, this may leave the reader confused as to how they should proceed on their spiritual journey, but a confused and searching mind is far more likely to be open to truth than one that has been bound by doctrine. Yes, the reader may well come to the conclusion that no one "owns" Jesus, his teachings or the right to interpret them. And yes, this also means that we each have the right and responsibility to find out who Jesus is by approaching him on a one to one basis. This may be a frightening concept to those of us who have been taught that we need to be directed or we will go astray. It is freeing to those of us who feel ready for liberation. Those who fear that the wall of their beliefs will crumble if Ehrman pulls out a brick are the ones who feel the need to attack this book. Ehrman's great gift is his knack for offering information without creating doctrine or dogma. He asks questions that invite more questions, and for that we thank him. Quantum Prodigal Son: Revisiting Jesus' Parable of the Prodigal Son from the Perspective of Quantum Mechanics

False Gods: The Heresy Takes Root (The Horus Heresy)

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Disappointing.
Great Novel
A greatly disappointing sequel
A Great Follow Up
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False Gods: The Heresy Takes Root (The Horus Heresy)
Graham McNeill
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ASIN: 1844163709

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The human Imperium stands at its height of glory - thousands of worlds have been brought to heel by the conquering armies of mankind. At the peak of his powers, Warmaster Horus wields absolute control - but can even he resist the corrupting whispers of Chaos?

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Disappointing........2007-09-26

After I read Dan Abnett's five-star "Horus Rising" (book 1 in the series), I eagerly awaited Graham McNeill's book two "False Gods". Yet, I approached this book with some concern based on more than a few of the Amazon reviews. Alas, those reviews with negative concerns were right! The first 100 pages were OK, the last 100 pages were OK. (OK, but neither good nor great)

Most of the middle 200 pages, however, could easily have been condensed into 75-100 pages, as the author went back and forth over almost the same territory -- a confusing mystical/spiritual territory at that -- to explain the beginning of Horus's descent. How much better it would have been to take a more straight-forward path where "pride goes before a fall", not "mysticalness".

I'm now reading the third book of the opening trilogy, and Ben Counter is writing at the high level we saw with Dan Abnett. So don't give up on book two -- it still lays a foundation (however poorly) for book three.

Great Novel.......2007-09-09

I wasnt much of a fan of Warhammer 40k, untill a friend recomended the Horus Heresy series of novels. All of them are a fantastic read, very entertaning, intreging, and smart. Those this book, like most other warhammer 40k novels, is not for the faint of heart, they contain awsome battles, valiant heros' and gory results. I give this book 5 stars

A greatly disappointing sequel.......2007-09-06

Dan Abnett did an excellent job of building up Horus as a super intelligent, charismatic superleader in the first book. Graham McNeill destroys all that in the sequel. With Abnett, you could FEEL Horus's greatness and awe-inspiring abilities. McNeill can only describe him as awe-inspiring. Worse still, now Horus is unlikeable, rash, tempermental, and petty. McNeill isn't a BAD writer, he's just really mediocore. His characters aren't interesting and are pretty two dimensional. There are times when it seems he forgets what he already wrote and just fills up the pages with more dribble.

(minor spoilers coming up)

For example, Loken rushes down to the planet where the weapon that brings Horus down is located. He hopes that retrieving this weapon would help diagnose Horus's deathly illness. Yet when he finally finds it, he just kind of hangs around the planet with no sense of urgency whatsoever. Just moments prior, he stomps on and kills a couple dozen civilians in his rush to get Horus to the ship's hospital, yet he waits around when he finds the weapon? The weapon that could explain Horus's condition and save his life?

(spoilers over)

McNeill seems like he was simply given the beginning, ending, and a page count target. There is no love of the story or characters. This book reeks of writing simply to receive a check in the end.

A Great Follow Up.......2007-08-14

This title is masterfully written by Graham McNeill (The UltraMarine's Omnibus and Fulgrim) and a superb sequel to the novel Horus Rising. The chronicles of the rise & fall of the Warmaster and his brother primarchs will entertain many diehard fans of the Warhammer 40,000 mythology. I highly recomend this and all the books in the series released thusfar.

M.

Grim Sci Fi at it's best.......2007-05-18

The seed that ultimately blooms into what has to be the most grim future of Warhammer 40k fiction, the Horus Heresy, does not disapoint. "False Gods" picks up the pace after the end of "Horus Rising", seeing the Warmaster Horus leading his forces to the moon of Darvin, where the fate of the "thirsting gods" ultimately catches up with the Emperors most favoured son.

For any good fan of that dark and grim future of Warhammer 40K, this book (and the rest in the series) are a definite _must_ as the tale is told in detail how those charged with the defence of humanitys sanctity and superiority, ultimately turns to corruption and false gods, the very backbone of the Warhammer 40k mythos.

This is a must for any warhammer fan and a good edition for any sci fi-lovers. But do yourself a favour and begin with book one, "Horus Rising" before reading "False Gods" - the road to corruption is winding and long and takes time to tell. And furthermore, the artwork gracing the covers are very nice with inlays of gold and bronze and will look good in any bookshelf.

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Only average
Excellent Sci-Fi
Wow! A great surprise for a non-gamer!
Finally, the Heresy as it was meant to be told.
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Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy)
Dan Abnett
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ASIN: 184416294X

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After thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the human Imperium is at its height. His dream for humanity accomplished, the Emperor hands over the reins of power to his Warmaster, Horus, and heads back to Terra. But is Horus strong enough to control his fellow commanders and continue the Emperor's grand design, or will such incredible power corrupt him?

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Only average.......2007-09-30

As an avid reader of military SF, I found this book to barely be able to hold my attention. I will try the next book in the series with the hope of some improvement.

Excellent Sci-Fi.......2007-08-30

I was not familiar with the Warhammer or Warmhammer 40000 Universe when I picked this book up. I got it when I stopped over in London, because it was signed by the author and it looked interesting.

That has not kept me from thoroughly enjoying this book! It is very well written and well paced. Judging from the other reviews everyone seems to know how this story is supposed to go. I suppose it's as if I am that person who didn't know that Anakin becomes Darth Vader. The characters seem to have a well known destiny, but that was not a problem for me. The character development is very nice. Abnett somehow manages to infuse the Astartes - a genetic creation of mankind bred for war - with layers of depth which are belied by their introduction.

If you like gritty-military sci-fi with an Ancient Rome twist, get this book.

Wow! A great surprise for a non-gamer!.......2007-08-28

Wow! What an awesome book! But first, my background: I am such a devout SF reader, that I have an Excel spreadsheet where I log my SF books in alpha order, and I grade each one after I read it. I have so many still unread in my garage, that I rarely buy new ones unless something catches my fancy.

One day two weeks ago, I was trawling through the Amazon SF books, reading about some other book, and down below it said that I might enjoy "Horus Rising". So I linked to it, and saw it was part of a games group known as Warhammer 40,000, and part of a sub-group called the Horus Heresy. Not being a game-player, I had never heard of either. Still, I read the reviews, and thought the book sounded interesting -- but probably doubtful -- since I was not a big space opera fan, and particularly not in the war genre.

Nevertheless I ordered it. Twenty pages into it I liked it so well that I ordered the rest of the (currently) five-book series the same day!

I came away from "Horus Rising" with these impressions: First, that the author Dan Abnett has a great gift of drawing the reader into the novel, giving the characters distinctive identities with enough depth that you care about them - and writing real dialogue that is in keeping with the respective personalities. Second, I expected about 70-80% blood, war, and gore, but was pleasantly surprised to discover that there are enough undercurrents and side-issues going on -- often handled using flash-backs and flash-forwards -- that the blood, war, and gore-meter only came up to a reasonable 25-30%. Third, it's hard for an author to come up with new ideas, words, and concepts that I haven't come across in my SF reading, but there are some intriguing ones here which add fascination and mystery to the reading process.
Fourth, another word about the characters: no pun intended, the characters are larger than life, and they need to be, because the dangers they face in the universe of 30,200 A.D. are very great. I'm glad the good guys are on my team. Although it becomes a little less clear as time goes on exactly who the good guys are...

Finally, even though I read the reviews of all five books so far in print -- and thus I know basically how it all turns out -- still, it didn't dampen my interest at all about book one. In a sense, it added intrigue to it by my wondering how everything was going to get resolved by the end of the series. So in this sense, the series is not only an "action adventure", but also a "mystery".

Hat's off to Dan Abnett, and soon I expect to say that for the authors of the other four books. (A different writer writes each successive book -- like a handoff from quarterback to halfback)

Oh. About that grade that I give each book after I read it. I rate the books from 0.0 to 10.0 in 0.5 step increments. The highest grade I had given to date, were three books at 9.0: Frank Herbert's "Dune", Jack McDevitt's "Chindi", and Alastair Reynolds' "Revelation Space". But now (ta da!) they are matched by the new "Horus Rising" rating of 9.0 on my spreadsheet.

Finally, the Heresy as it was meant to be told........2007-08-14

While the story of the Horus Heresy has always been eluded to in snippets throughout Warhammer 40,000 publications, the full story has never actually been told. Dan Abnet does a great service to the tale with his detailed description of the favoured son Horus and the rise of his legion. This is an excellent beginning to what I can only hope will be a long & successful series. My only criticism to offer is the conspicuous absence of some of the more prevelant primarchs & their legions in the opeining novel. I am optimistic that will change though.

M.

Pick this up!.......2007-02-26

Amazingly written and perfectly executed! Good job Dan Abnett!

If you are new to sci-fi and would like to read an excellent starting point on the WH40K universe this is the place to start. I have been dabbling with 40k since '89 and had always wanted to know what made the Warmaster turn against humanity. Now this book doesn't let you know why but it certain begins the history of how and why it all happened.

Now there are other better written reviews and by the time you get to this review you should already be convinced to pick up this book and the other 2 in the first part of the trilogy.

I have finished all 3 books and have even considered getting back into the table-top game just to become more familiar with the entire 40k universe. For all of you hardcore 40k fans its time to stop rolling the dice for a least a weekend and pick up this series and see why Horus really became a spawn of the Chaos Lords of the Warp!

Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity

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Our Christianity was not the first Christianity

Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity
Walter Bauer
Manufacturer: Sigler Press
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ASIN: 0962364274

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Our Christianity was not the first Christianity.......2006-11-02

For hundreds of years everyone assumed that the earliest Christians were orthodox New Testament Roman Christians, and"heretical" Christianities--like Gnosticism and Marcionism--developed later, branches off the original orthodox trunk.

Then in the 1930s this German guy named Walter Bauer decided to actually look at the evidence. Imagine! What he discovered was that pretty much everywhere he looked--Syria, Palestine, Egypt, etc.--the "heresies" weren't branches off any trunk, they were the original local Christianities. And they weren't small marginal sects, they were the main local Christianities.

The evidence shows that all around the Mediterranean, outside Rome, the orthodox New Testament Roman Christianity was a secondary sect, a sect that became dominant only after the conversion of Constantine gave it the advantage of Roman swords. Wow.

No wonder the big boys call this as a paradigm shattering book. Scholarly and technical, especially in the tedious first section of chapter one. Stick with it, because it gets fun and exciting.

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Extremely impressive
Amazon drops the ball
Great Warhammer Art book
I have never purchased such a marvellous production for just $30
value far exceeds the price

The Horus Heresy: Collected Visions
Alan Merrett
Manufacturer: Games Workshop
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ASIN: 1844164241

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In this omnibus addition, all four volumes of the Horus Heresy art books are brought together for the first time. It tells the full story of this pivotal period in the history of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, in which the arch-traitor Horus betrayed Emperor of Mankind. The epic tale is described in one huge tome with exciting text and masses of fantastic art.

Customer Reviews:

Extremely impressive.......2007-10-11

This massive art/source book relates the single most important event in the mythos of Warhammer 40K: the Horus Heresy. The book is full coffee table-sized and is printed on over 400 thick, high-quality gloss pages. The $50 retail price is surprisingly cheap, and I would bet that in the not too distant future, good copies will be selling for much more that that (assuming BL follows its usual practice of printing a limited number), so don't wait until its too late, go ahead and order your copy now.

THE HORUS HERESY: VISIONS is full of art, mostly celebrating space marines and other characters from the story. The quality of the art is highly variable, with some looking as if it came out of a 5th grade art class and some being full-sized poster worthy. With well over 1000 pieces, you're bound to find many that will please you and some that don't. My favorite artists in the book are Adrian Smith and Michael Phillippi, who each have numerous works here and a couple of full two-page works that are truly amazing. My least favorite have to be the conceptual work by John Balanche, which was over-used and just doesn't capture the essence of WH40K.

As for the writing, the book reads like a hybrid between a gaming source book and a novelization of the Horus Heresy. Alan Merrett does an excellent job of relating important information without getting overly technical or wordy. For the most part, the text is broken up into stand-alone sections that describe a specific event, character, or group. You can open this book to any page and find material of interest, without being lost in the overall flow of the story. Also, Graham McNeill contributed two pretty good short stories ("Battle for Prospero" and "The Kaban Project") that take up about five pages each and get you into the feel of everyday life during the Horus Heresy.

Overall, this is one BL book that shouldn't be missed. Buy it for the art, buy it for the information, but don't miss out on this epic collection.

Amazon drops the ball.......2007-08-31

I ordered this item on august 7th. I know the book is great, I've seen it at a Games Day black library stand. Originally, it was due to ship from Amazon sometime between the 29th of that month and the 13th of september. Today, however, I went to check its progress and saw that the date has been changed. I'm now supposed to wait until the middle of February! That's 6 months from when I ordered!

Great Warhammer Art book.......2007-08-16

If your looking for some warhammer art, this book is it. The great thing about this book is that there are MANY different art forms in it. From oil paintings to photoshop prints, all the artists have their different styles and its great to see them all side by side in one book. At the end of the book there are a lot of collectible card pictures as well.

I have never purchased such a marvellous production for just $30.......2007-08-05

High quality pages. Hundreds of great pictures most of which can as well be posters if they were bigger. Exciting passages. Two wonderful short stories by Graham McNeill. While reading the book you turn a page, read the text, look at the pictures, turn the next page, look at some more pictures, sometimes read small passages that are scattered throughout the page. Every text is a whole, It gives you the information, the atmosphere and never continues to next page. The text of the next page may summarize the previous ones, may continue telling the events in a chronological fashion, may give detailed information about something mentioned in previous texts or describe something new. This book is a collection of pictures and texts related to the Horus Heresy. It is consistent enough. But the flow of the texts may not be as swift as something written as a whole from beginning to the end. Nontheless there is not a single text that is not exciting. The Amazons's price for the book is incredible. Even with the intercontinental shippin fee added, the total price is less than the original. Maybe for $50 you may hesitate to buy the book but for $30 hesitation is the time you lose before you hold this incredible work. You may not have the time or energy or money to read a long novel or rulebook, to play a tabletop or computer game, to buy or paint miniatures. However this book will satisfy your need for the atmosphere and excitement of WH40K without the effort time and money needed by the other means of experiencing ýt. It is why i take the book everywhere i go despite its weight. Yeah, i think the only bad thing i can say about this massive work is its resulted weight. A weight that befits its quality.

value far exceeds the price.......2007-07-28

For a games workshop book, this is cheaper then i thought possible. It is only 30 dollars when you buy from amazon and its the size of a text book. if you are just getting into Warhammer 40k then its perfect. it explains the background of the imperium and the origins of the space marines and is based on one of the most compelling story's of betrayal ever put on paper, the Horus Heresy. it has fantastic art and is a very good background book for people of all ages and from the hardcore gamer to the newbie. Honestly its the best 30 I have ever spent and I'm sure many of you will love it like i do.

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A very good tale of Fulgrim's fall but could've been longer
Great 40k fiction.
Grim tragedy
The Heresy continues
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Fulgrim (The Horus Heresy)
Graham McNeill
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ASIN: 1844164764

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It is the 31st millennium, and humanity is at the peak of its powers. As the Great Crusade, led by Warmaster Horus, continues to conquer the galaxy, Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children, leads his warriors into battle against a vile alien foe. From the blood of this campaign are sown the seeds that will lead this proud Legion to treachery, taking them down the darkest of paths of corruption. Leading up to the carnage of the Dropsite Massacre on Isstvan V, this is the tale of Fulgrim's tragic fall from grace.

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A very good tale of Fulgrim's fall but could've been longer.......2007-10-01

The novel Fulgrim marks the 5th entry in the current Horus Heresy novels from Games Workshop's Black Library. It details the seduction and fall from the Emperor's grace of one of his Primarch sons. Graham McNeill, who has written one other Heresy book, returns to pen this tale of the Emperor's Children and their leader.

While I agree with the other reviewers in that parts of Fulgrim felt rushed or underdeveloped all in all Graham McNeill did a very good job in telling how one of the Primarchs gradually became seduced by the lure of Chaos. Fulgrim had always been one of the more interesting Primarchs in the Warhammer 40K pantheon in that his fall from grace was even more dramatic than that of Horus' own fall. McNeill did a great job in giving life to the character and personality of the Emperor's Children Legion. Their strive to be perfect in all things was their strenght and the battle against the Laer showed it, but it also showed how it was also their weakness and would lead to their inevitable fall from grace.

Fulgrim was a very quick read and in that McNeill did seem to rush certain subplots and characterizations. I disagree that the subplots involving the remembrancers were superflous. They were a necessary thread in how the Fulgrim and his legion were seen as not just superhuman warriors, but as patrons of the arts as well. But like all things when people strove for perfection it also leads to overindulgence and their love of the arts opened the legion and their Primarch Fulgrim into embracing hedonism as the way to perfection.

I do think the novel could've benefited from another hundred or so pages if just to bring more life to Fulgrim's brother Primarch Ferrus Mannus and his Iron Hands Legion. Ferrus Mannus and his no-nonsense Iron Hands made for a great counterpoint to Fulgrim and his Children, but with so many subplots going on in the book McNeill seem to have rushed and shortchanged the Iron Hands and their leader. Maybe they will get their own book (rumor has it that the Horus Heresy series will touch upon all the 18 known Legions and their Primarchs) down the line.

The final act of the book deals with the Battle of Istvaan V and McNeill has a way in describing the chaos and brutality of the battle between Astartes. The battle unfolded just exactly as described in brief in the Horus Heresy artbooks even down to the intervention of a behind-the-scenes manipulator which finally makes Fulgrim's fall complete. This last act alone could've taken up a whole novel all on its own and with some of the novels intersecting in certain events of the Heresy the battle may just get more detail in later books.

In the end, Fulgrim was not a perfect book from McNeill but it was still a very good entry to the Horus Heresy series. In fact, I would say that this book was better in showing how Chaos can seduce and turn one of the Emperor's own sons against him than how Horus himself was turned. While Horus was manipulated by outsiders, Fulgrim still had a chance to reject the lure of Chaos but had little will to do so. I can't wait for the next book in the series which will deal with my favorite legion and Primarch: Lion El'Jonson and his Dark Angels Legion.

Great 40k fiction. .......2007-09-13

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and thats the central theme to "Fulgrim." While feeling somewhat rushed, this novel captures more of what makes the 40k universe as dark as it is. It shows corruption of the spirit, not in the fell swoop that Chaos seems to imply, but by degrees so small that you don't realize you've crossed the line until you've crossed three more.

This is made more tragic by the sheer innocence of the characters, Astartes included. When they're exposed to chaos in a raw, if well subdued form, they interperet it as beautiful. If the Emperor had made a standing order to blow up anything that remotely resemebled a place of worship, things would've gone far differently.

The interaction of the rememberancers is well done, and despite the inclinations of other reviwers, important to the progression of the books, because the overwhelming majority of the fleets weren't Astartes, they're a support staff of humans. Their corruption is also well described and deeply distrubing, with the painter adding her own blood to her paints to make the hues "just right" standing out in my mind in particular.

The only frustrating part to me is how easily Fulgrim is swayed by the sword he finds at the beginning of the novel. The primarchs were all supposed to be powerful psykers in their own right, even if they didn't use their abilities to the degree that Magnus or the Emperor did. Using a daemon possessed sword to influence a primarch stinks too much of a deus ex machina. The gradual fall due to his own pride and overamplified sense of self-perfection would've done the trick just as handily, and far more bitterly.

All told, very well done, in typical McNeill fashion, though it would've been another 5 star book if he'd had a bit more time to polish it.

Grim tragedy.......2007-09-12

Another worthy addition to my favorite 40k series. Although it covers much of the same timeline as the previous books, it doesn't feel repetitive. It starts kind of slow, but after the first hundred pages I couldn't put it down. One of my main complaints is that I didn't feel extremely attached to any of the loyalist marines. Not a huge deal, I guess I just miss Loken, Torgaddon, Garro, and Tarvitz(who was present, but not nearly enough). All in all, a must read for Horus Heresy fans. 4.5 stars.

The Heresy continues.......2007-08-29

The Heresy revealed!

once again were taken into the deep shrouded past of the 40k universe to the dawn of the imperium and the ending of a golden age of mankind, and the treachery that shatters it for all time. the tale of fulgrimis one of a noble warrior and beloved brother whos way of life is challenged and turned upsaide down by dark forces until all he turn against all that he once held precious and forever places him on the road to damnation.

another great book in an epic tale that spans the universe, if you have'nt read the other books in this series i advise you do, esspecially if your a 40k fanHorus Rising (The Horus Heresy)False Gods: The Heresy Takes Root (The Horus Heresy)Galaxy in Flames (Horus Heresy)The Flight of the Eisenstein (Horus Heresy)

Tragic Beauty.......2007-08-27

Seeing as this is the fifth book in what is going to be a long series, i think it is important to articulate the major break-up between the original trilogy (concerning the Mournival of Horus and the downfall of their legion) and subsequent releases. What followed that trilogy has so far been a set of stories that for all intents and purposes 'stand alone'. A trend that it seems will not be broken soon (The story of the tenacious and tragic legion of the Dark Angels is next in line).

Bearing this in mind, it is no stretch of the imagination on my behalf or on the behalf of any others that Fulgrim is by far the most intense and complete of the series thus far.

The tragic story of corruption this glorious legion suffers at the hands of excess has an almost operatic depth to it, and the storyline itself starts right back at the beginning of the series - running parallel along the events that took place in previous books, right up to and breaching the end of the malevolent and bloody battle that ended the original trilogy.

The small criticism i would make, however, is that the writer leaves a lot of description and detail sparse - left up to the imagination of the reader - a tradition that is becoming more and more prevalent in Black Library publications. It is necessary, i honestly propose, to make sure the richness of the universe is brought forward through clear and precise highlighting of thematically prominent detail. While not a problem within itself, underwriting is a well accepted form of suggestive literature, but i feel personally that all too often it is used to the effect of ease on the writer's behalf rather than the effect of suggestion itself - and i for one would enjoy a more focused and gritty experience in the books to come in this fantastic series.

Make no mistake, if this series has held your interest so far, this entry will reinvigorate it.

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