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July 31st 2007
by Games Workshop
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Mass Market Paperback, 512 pages
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1844164764
(isbn13: 9781844164769)
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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, F...more
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Read in January, 2007
Unfortunately for the Horus Heresy series this is where it really starts to repeat itself. While The Flight of the Eisenstein was just the same story as in the previous books, it was still fresh because it was the first time we really stepped out of the established characters and followed some one totally new who really comes into his own at the end of the story. The plot and the writing was also good enough for it to still feel new.
Fulgrim, however, feels very much like the same stor...more
Fulgrim, however, feels very much like the same stor...more
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Read in February, 2008
I really tried to like this book but for me it had a lot of things going against it. I've never been a big fan of Graham McNeill but I thought he did a good job with "False Gods". In Fulgrim nothing works for me. I think this book is about Fulgrim's fall into Chaos but since Fulgrim and the other Emperor's Children (with the exception of Saul Tarvitz) have been depicted as arrogant pricks in the previous stories they are not sympathetic characters. Without sympathetic characters th...more
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Read in June, 2008
recommends it for:
Fans of the series
Guilty pleasure.
This book is interesting in that it actually follows the plot from the point of a Primarch.
I believe this is the book with the Symphony/Death/Orgy scene. Damn, that was some vivid writing. That chapter will be burned into my mind forever.
Music so evil that it draws demons from the Warp that start killing everyone. Then everyone is so in awe by it that they start offering themselves up. People from the audience pick up the inst...more
This book is interesting in that it actually follows the plot from the point of a Primarch.
I believe this is the book with the Symphony/Death/Orgy scene. Damn, that was some vivid writing. That chapter will be burned into my mind forever.
Music so evil that it draws demons from the Warp that start killing everyone. Then everyone is so in awe by it that they start offering themselves up. People from the audience pick up the inst...more
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Read in February, 2009
I must say, I was mightily disappointed with this book. Having been introduced to the Emp's Children in previous books, none of which were positive interactions, I do not see the wisdom in writing a book on a highly dislikable legion. I did not like or connect with any of the characters, and even those that remained loyal were still perfectionist pricks that you felt unable to feel anything for.
This book became very odd about halfway through. Dang that Laer temple, eh? The "...more
This book became very odd about halfway through. Dang that Laer temple, eh? The "...more
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While formulaic and somewhat slow in getting to the meaty stuff, this book eventually becomes a good representation of the world of the Warhammer 40K wargame in fiction form.
Dealing with the Horus Heresy as first developed within that game system, the book tells of the downfall of and betrayal by the Emperor's Children, one of the Chapters of Space Marines that guard the galaxy against enemy incursions.
While characterizations, plot points, and details are nothing to cro...more
Dealing with the Horus Heresy as first developed within that game system, the book tells of the downfall of and betrayal by the Emperor's Children, one of the Chapters of Space Marines that guard the galaxy against enemy incursions.
While characterizations, plot points, and details are nothing to cro...more
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When I reviewed Graham McNeill’s 'False Gods', his previous book in the Horus Heresy series, I accused him of wasting the Primarch Fulgrim. Fulgrim only featured in one scene in 'False Gods', but now McNeill has rewarded him with the longest single novel the Black Library has ever printed. Indeed, the Fulgrim scene from 'False Gods'is represented in this novel, with subtle differences as the story is explored from Fulgrim’s perspective.
'Fulgrim' is magnificent. As a dedicated fol...more
'Fulgrim' is magnificent. As a dedicated fol...more
Read in June, 2007
Quite simply, knocked Horus Rising off the top spot for me without a doubt.
Epic book all the way through that created a complete picture on the slow, unnoticed corruption of one of the most loyal of the Astartes legions.
A book i actually travelled to London for to get a month early and signed by Graham McNeill himself, I could not put down and almost finished on the train journey home. It is that good.
Epic book all the way through that created a complete picture on the slow, unnoticed corruption of one of the most loyal of the Astartes legions.
A book i actually travelled to London for to get a month early and signed by Graham McNeill himself, I could not put down and almost finished on the train journey home. It is that good.
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Read in April, 2009
As the fifth book in this sereies you begin to see a pattern of repeating problems and trends. Not my favorite book of the sereis other then the very explicate combat scenes, but the charaters were not my favorite and just how the story was told bothered me.
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
geeks
Easily the best of the horus heresy series thus far.
The story follows the descent into corruption of the perfectionist Emperor's Children space marines and their god-like leader, the Primarch Fulgrim. Unlike the other space marine chapters encountered up to this point, Fulgrim and his legion have a much richer nature and moral structure, making their descent into perversion, arrogance, hedonism and fratricide all the more tragic.
The story follows the descent into corruption of the perfectionist Emperor's Children space marines and their god-like leader, the Primarch Fulgrim. Unlike the other space marine chapters encountered up to this point, Fulgrim and his legion have a much richer nature and moral structure, making their descent into perversion, arrogance, hedonism and fratricide all the more tragic.
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Oh my god, the best of the horus heresy series so far. Everytime I read this (about 3 times now in last few months) I anxiously await the "Maraviglia"....read it trust me. This explains how Fulgrim (Primarch of the Emperors Children Space Marines), and his legion fall the the chaos influence of Slaanesh. It also gives more background on Lucius (later Lucious the Enternal), Fabius Bile (evil apothecary of the chapter), and Eidolon.
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I really like dark tone of the Horus Heresy series - the step by step desecration of the warriors that were pledged to protect humanity. It is a hard sci-fi book but still it is the personal accounts of how the heresy takes root and grows that is the strenght of the book series. (ok the W40K brutal style of war is captured very well in the series with much more understanding gained of reasons for the legions of earth)
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Read in August, 2007
I must admit, this book is almost a copy paste of what happened in the third and fourth book if you ask me...
BUT the last chapters is so darn awesome that they might just be one of the best places in all of the books!
3/5 because of the ending.
BUT the last chapters is so darn awesome that they might just be one of the best places in all of the books!
3/5 because of the ending.
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Read in November, 2007
Excellent story following one of the Emperors sons, Fulgrim. I have never been a huge fan of Chaos, but it is always nice for a little background information on one of mankinds greatest enemies.
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
WH40K fans
Games Workshop continues to detail the history of it's sci fi universe with this latest installment. My guilty pleasure, the books from the Horus Heresy are like candy to me. Candy.
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This book was so gross. If I am ever driven to madness by the covert influences of an outer space chaos daemon I will know what to do.
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
Borat
I was (and still am) exhausted by the ethos and pathos contained in this book... no logos for me, thanks.
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It only gets a 3 because I couldn't remember much about it, had to look at the back of the book.
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One of the better books in the series to date... and about my favorite legion, no less!
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