The First Heretic is a great WH40k novel. The best in that series in my opinion. You can easily skip around the series if you like, after the first 6 or 7 they are no longer really tied together in a unified story line. More ancient history books for the WH40k universe.

Yeah, it's really out dated. But it was a great book, a classic. The second one was not as good, but still very decent. And I'm not far enough in the third to have an opinion.


If you really want a great cyberpunk thriller and don't mind some very graphic violence and sex (seriously, it's pretty bad/great). Check out Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. It's absolutely brilliant, it reads like an action movie with a hard boiled, one liner spouting anti-hero. It's also the first book in a trilogy as well. The third book in the series is equally as good as the first and leaves you wanting more from the main character. Here's one of my favorite lines from book 3...

"When they ask how I died, tell them: Still Angry"

I recommend this series to anyone that has a passing interest in Cyberpunk.

kay. I tried to remember. First I need to finish Neuromancer (i started to read Count zero but I didn't get very far a year or so ago) then i try to get Altered Carbon.

"To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis and I'm lovin' it ^^

Q by Luther Blisset (actually a writer's collective)

A gift from my sister and in English, so its been a bit hard to read. And since it is not my usual type of reading, it has been a very slow read.

Finished Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, loved it, and starting on The Hunger Games

(Among other) 'De gezonde woning' - a very interesting book about 100 years of people's housing in my hometown (not sure if 'people's housing' is a proper english term - Dutch 'volkshuisvesting' is affordable housing for people with low incomes - one of the great achievements of the 20th century. At the start of the 20th century, most poor people (so most of the population) lived in poor slum dwellings, nowadays most people live in good houses, subsided with rent subsidies if necessary).

Thanks for the advice! I love the W40K lore but recognize that the series is very uneven.

Rereading A Song of Ice and Fire at the moment. I just started on A Clash of Kings.

Also reading The Black Company in tandem; so far I've read the Books of the North (first trilogy) and the Books of the South (second trilogy, in two parts), with The Silver Spike (stand-alone story focusing on characters who were written out at the end of North) being a work in progress.

I suspect I'm gonna start on Return of the Crimson Guard soon as well. I haven't read a Malazan story in months.

I'm currently about a quarter of the way through Mockingjay, the third book of The Hunger Games trilogy. I have to say, I'm really enjoying this trilogy.

Currently reading The Enchantress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Book 6) by Michael Scott.

I finished This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It by David Wong.

For those who don't know, Spiders is the sequel to John Dies at The End, a book that began as a short story on the Internet. The humble origins, and the writer being a Cracked.com writer, meant that the narration was a bit goofy at times, but I found myself forgiving the book its shortcomings and stayed up late at night just to find out what would happen next. If that's not a sign of a captivating book, I don't know what is. It also had the curious ability to be philosophical and somewhat creepy at moments and hilarious the next. It's not subtle most of the time, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Oh, and sometimes things get pulled right out of the author's ass, but you know what? I don't care. As a form of mindfuckery, it works.

It took me two days to read Spiders, all 485 pages of it, so it's business as usual in the page-turner department. It also contains several moments of horror, philosophy, comedy and completely random things happening (let's face it, it's not like Stephen King expains how magic and alien technology are possible, so it's still okay), but a part of the prequel's charm is missing. It's nothing I can put my finger on, but as a wild guess I'd say Spiders is a bit too focused for its own good; it takes itself too seriously. Maybe it's the "I've seen something like this before". On the whole though, it's probably the better of the two books, but I'll withhold judgment until I've given both novels a re-read and some time for them to sink in.

EDIT: Grammar/typo fix.

The Long War Against God - by the late Dr. Henry Morris