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Non linear helper for a non linear story

Revisado: 01-16-25

This was excellent, but definitely a challenge overview of Dark Souls. I am a casual player of Dark Souls that loved the game but am not a replayer. This read is definitely inspiring me to reconsider that.

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Pulp is best

Revisado: 10-27-24

Great pulp sci-fi listen. The tropes are so trope-y, but all mushed together into an enjoyable mix. Some ideas were genuinely great: eg the theory of cosmic inspiration, the vision of religion, etc. If you like sci-fi and also like Cthulhu, this is an easy choice.

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Difficult because it has to be

Revisado: 08-12-24

This book gets a lot of flack for being a difficult read for its narration and style. But i think it has to be for the scope of identities, linguistic styles, and influences that make up its core: a core that the story explicitly engages with in its process of becoming itself.

Each character holds their own critical lens and stylistic tone that intentionally conflict when they come together. That’s New York. Place that against a stylistic borrowing from the Call of Cthulhu and it makes for a read that is as rewarding as it is challenging.

Absolutely loved it, and can’t wait for more.

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Wrapping up so many stories

Revisado: 01-29-24

Two years and too many audible credits later, I’m finally free.

I accidentally got hooked on 40k (well, 30k) while looking for an easy scifi series and snagged the earliest Horus heresy books.

The travelers from Calth, the rise and fall of Johnny Space, and the saga of the one space Marine with critical thinking skills — Lokan.

Thank you to Dan and all the HH authors. I loved it.

Now please just do something about that menace Erabus.

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Favorite post Heresy book

Revisado: 01-17-22

Absolute blast. Cawl and Felix are exciting protagonists, and while the whole the side narrative with the scythes is a bit of a question mark, it makes for an expansive and suspenseful story!

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Best 40k book, easily

Revisado: 11-14-21

I accidentally fell down the 40k rabbit hole during lockdown, and have gone through all the recommended ones from Gaunt to Cain to Horus to Eisenhorn. Of the lot, this was the most entertaining and interesting — with the only frustration being seeking out other such one-off gems floating around in the black library.

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Great books, terrible narration

Revisado: 06-09-21

The book is interesting and has a good mix of history and argumentation, but the narration is genuinely terrible. Kudos to Dana for narrating her own book, but there are random gaps in the narration that break up sentences in a jarring way that distracts from the content. Editors/producers should have picked this up.

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A classic sullied by poor performance and editing

Revisado: 12-03-19

Clausewitz is always great, but incredibly difficult to listen to as an audio book. The narrator’s efforts here are commendable (the translation is dense and challenging), but the experience is affected by poor editing and what seem like frequently repeated phrases or stuttering as the narrator returns to a phrase: it’s possible these are titles being read out, but it does not come off as such.

Anyway, useful refresher if you have read Clausewitz before, but first time consumers beware.

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Great survey of returning great power conflict

Revisado: 08-14-19

Excellent and high level survey of the issues. There is repetition of experience and even phrases as mentioned in other reviews, but a very worthwhile listen.

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Gut wrenching

Revisado: 09-27-18

Chivers previous book, The Gun, was an excellent and critical look at a horrific weapon and its outcomes. The Fighters is a brilliant continuation of that kind of critical and multi-perspective writing, with an impact that can’t be ignored.

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