William Lajousky

Even the campy stuff was great

Revisado: 06-19-24

Their rendition of a certain ancient entity in the story seems a bit one dimensional, but the fact that it keeps calling everyone “slave” At least lightens the blow of its very underwhelming character with some comedy. Great story though, and a good listen!

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World building is on-point; it’s a great place to start with Warhammer40k

Revisado: 01-11-24

Too often 40k novels will plunge into the grimdark and forget to immerse the reader in anything but bolter porn and steaming ichor.

The Eisenhorn series as a whole does a fantastic job of showing you the 40k universe and its manifold cultures without making it comically brutal and dismal the entire time. Worlds aren’t burning through the entirety of the book series and you get rare peek into how human (and a bit of alien) society operates in this book series.

If you you want to get a sense of how the Warhammer 40k mood, get a reasonable introduction to the lore, and also enjoy good stories with compelling characters who make real sacrifices for their character development, Eisenhorn is for you!

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Gotta love that 1600s saltiness

Revisado: 10-27-23

I love how he spends half the book talking through the Bible at length just for the point of showing Catholics are ridiculous and divine right is total b.s.

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A fun listen; but overall, there are better compendiums

Revisado: 04-24-23

Reading is executed well enough, but to be frank the stories are not as impactful as some other compendiums. It still has value for its easy listening though to be sure, I found it enjoyable in that it didn’t require too much thought or engagement on the part of the listener.

After Laird Barron, Lumley, or the authors in the book of Cthulhu, Rise of the Deep Ones, tales of the abyssal plain, tales of the Al Azif, or HPL himself…Grim Investigations is a nice palette cleanser for a decidedly more lighthearted portrayal of the mythos…Particularly in that you are not forced to feel the trauma of individual characters through either the writer’s prose or imagery.

That does perhaps build the first of the two critiques I have on this compendium; the characters feel generic, cut and paste for the lack of intimacy in the writing.

The second critique, is that the deity concerned in this compendium isn’t impactful. More so used as an opportunity to make callouts or provide cameos to other monsters present in the mythos.

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Stories are great but the Maine/New England accents are lol

Revisado: 04-20-23

Stories are fun. If you like lovecraftian pulp novellas it’s why you even stopped to look at this title. Good for playing while you’re doing something else.

Reading is clear, cadence and emotional registering is good. The occasional word is pronounced with some creative license but that’s fine.

But the accents leave something to be desired. Admittedly, the Maine accent is probably the most difficult of any English speaking accent to mimic; I was born in Maine, I would know. I can’t even get it right and I still have some family alive with that characteristic accent.

But when a Maine fisherman’s accent dips in and out of cockney, Australian, Irishmen, Bostonian, pirate, and John f kennedy in the same page of reading you just have to laugh 😂.

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A good perspective on the amount of political intrigue in the ancient world

Revisado: 11-07-22

A lot of authors focus on the macro elements, or perhaps a bit too much on idealizations of the personal lives of historical figures. Some focus more on biased opinions that completely skew the achievements or shortcomings of a people.

Bauer, in my opinion, does an excellent job of focusing on the amount of political intrigue in the ancient world. It really shows you what kind of person it took to be a leader back then, and how generally scummy as individuals almost every last one of them were. Her book, in a mostly objective fashion, conveys the ways in which most leaders of the ancient world murdered their parents, children, spouses, siblings, relatives, and friends either out of necessity, paranoia, or reckless abandon. Not necessarily in that order, or all of the aforementioned list (but sometimes they did..good god). It’s insane. But yea that was my takeaway from her book. It’s good to live in modern times.

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Great voice acting, stories were fun if formulaic

Revisado: 08-01-22

I’ll admit I’m not very familiar with Laird Barron’s work yet. There were some cosmic horror gems, and he brings an element of intimate individual trauma to them. But that being said, the stories were quite formulaic. They bordered on easy to-preempt plot beats once you listen to a couple of them; they suffer a bit for that quality, but make up for it in variance of setting and plot variables, although the characters bear a lot of similar traits. It’s a fun listen, and the voice acting is great 👍

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A fun listen

Revisado: 01-05-22

Does it give expansive stories that answer burning questions about the lore? Mmmm not really, but then that isn’t what most of 40k is about anyway.

Does it give stories that provide disjointed snippets of lore, and do a better job at conveying a mood? Yup.

Voice acting is great, stories are a fun listen to immerse you in the grimdark.

-blessed is the mind too small for doubt-

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What a ride

Revisado: 10-23-21

If you’ve made it this last book in the series, it’s been a wild ride already. It only gets more soul crushing and bizarre; enjoy!

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An important read/listen, especially if you’re young

Revisado: 09-29-21

This book, despite the historical context of when it was written, and despite some of the incendiary views of its author, provides anachronistic truths about the nature of governance and politics in human culture.

If you are young, you’re liable to be permeated with your family or social circle’s more extreme political ideals without considering what is realistic or fallacious, attainable or unachievable in those political views; be it conservative or liberal.

Listen to this book, and consider the pragmatic realities of the world. Parse out what is inhibitive in any political viewpoint where you reside. Do your best to learn from history.

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