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Almost 600 episodes into One Piece so far. Already worth it.
So when did it start getting good?
Honestly if you don’t like the first few episodes you’re just not going to like it. The plot and character development are decent but the tone right of the bat carries through the whole manga/anime.
I got drunk one night and bought all of them in paperback from Amazon. ALL of them. Think I’ve read 12 or so and the rest are just in a box. Don’t drink and shop folks, I still haven’t even opened any of the omnibuses
Same, but I bought the Culture novels. They were fine, except the ugly parts.
I’ve given up on Consider Phelbeas after the starving cannibals bit, which was completely unnecessary and gross as hell.
The Culture is fantastic. Except the ugly parts.
I only see like 45 books here. Isn’t he missing half of them?
It’s never too late to walk away from things that suck. Crappy relationships, shitty jobs, bad books, you have the power of choice.
I know and I choose to suffer! Why? Because I can!
I read all of the Left behind books … Am I Christian? No. Are the books really well written? Also, no. Why did I read them? I guess for the lols
I read them all back in high school when I was a good, Christian boy. Loved 'em. Read them again within the last couple of years. Even with the faith aspect removed, they’re a fun enough read. Doesn’t take much brain power to get through them
This sums up all of Warhammer in 3 comments.
Some are pretty good.
Some are pretty not.
They didn’t expect the success of the first few that made the times best seller list, thats like massively more than they expected to sell, so they increased the planned number and the quality dropped massively as they expanded to the authors to suit.
If you read just the best books you’d still get the same favour but cut it to about 20 books or so, including the best ones in the Siege of Terra that are the actual ending.
I got suckered in because the first book was by Dan Abnett, and I ran out of both Eisenhorn and Gaunt’s Ghosts, so Horus Heresy sounded like a good idea. I read about a dozen of them before I realised the poor quality of most of them outweights by investment in the story and gave up.
Yeah… Dan Abnett is the pretty much the only writer keeping the black library from being a huge pile of trash.
The writer for ciaphas cain too!
Me, after watching 8 seasons of some idiotic streaming show.
“I just wanted to know how it ends!”
It never really pays off, just read a summary.
And that’s how I disappointed your mother.
This is me and Brandon Sanderson, but the answer is most definately: Yes.
Same for Sanderson. It seems like he tries to subvert expectations at the end of every book 2 but he only ends destroying everything he’s established.
I completely stopped reading his stuff when I found out that he is a Mormon and graduated from BYU.
As a non-american, whats the significance of BYU?
It’s owned by the Mormon church. It has a history of expelling female victims of SA and racism. Freshmen are required to read a talk by one of their church’s apostles that basically says they may have to resort to violence to keep “woke” away.
The church itself is misogynistic, homo- & transphobic, and racist (not officially anymore but it’s so integrated into the culture that it’s never going to go away).
I’ve dislocated my shoulder fourteen times. Somewhere amongst those dislocations, I had a surgery to stop it from happening again. (It didn’t work.) However, the surgeon apparently forgot to write a prescription for the kind of medicine that one would usually have after having a shoulder sliced open. As a result, I didn’t sleep that night and, as a further result, I read the entirety of a Warhammer book.
(I’m not actually sure it shows up in this stack; I think it was a witch hunter series. Most of what I remember is some nemesis severing the tendons required to smile.)
Anyway, I haven’t dislocated my shoulder in a while - whether due to surgery or fortuity I couldn’t say - but the above is all that comes to my mind when I think of Warhammer books. Also, I now have three tiny scars about my shoulder.
I 100% Dragon’s Dogma 2 despite hating every minute of it because I got it on PS5 and couldn’t refund it anyway. I had to milk my money back out of it somehow.
Is there a better way to absorb warhammer lore ?
Date trans girls
Get some other nerd on YouTube to read it out so you can be a nerd with different stuff.
My method was to play Warhammer: Total War with a friend who knew all of the lore and constantly ask him stuff about the armies we were fighting.
As a person who’s not into the table top games, but loves the lore.
I watch/listen to a few channels:
WesHammer - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDj6ttwzj2sr464jDdg_pA
He does a short introduction (on camera), then the rest is audio with relevant artwork and some video from the games.
Aside from the usual deep-dives into the various factions and popular characters, I enjoy his Grim Dark Story Hour vids. These focus on creepy (horror) short stories from random Warhammer books, where Wes does some voice acting as well.
The Sleepy Hollow - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC86zNGwCUt5gBnizRSWSLuA
Warhammer lore (and game lore). It’s meant to be for helping people get to sleep. But I listen to it during the day. If you do use it for sleep, watch out for the super loud Youtube ads that play in the middle, if you don’t have Premium or use Peertube.
There are a lot of other Youtubers that do good content as well, like Arbitor Ian etc.
The top two are my recommendations.
