Regarding 40k novels: Eisenhorn and Ravenor. The Bequin trilogy also ought to be good once it's completed. Anything by Dan Abnett is generally golden for those tie-ins.

Besides that: do you want just leisure books or books I would recommend also if you wanted some major introductory texts (for instance The Future of Power)?

EDIT: Also, Atlas Shrugged did not sit well enough for me to get through it. Anthem was great, and the Fountainhead was ok if abit...too dense on Ayn Rand for my taste. Atlas Shrugged is pretty polarizing, so you might love it or you might hate it, either or.

Alaric

France45622 Posts

December 19 2013 09:36 GMT

#16182

The Black Company (about anything by Glenn Cook actually).
If we go with H2G2, then Prachett obv. (they have this massive difference though that beyond the humour, H2G2 has moments where it shoves irony into your face and makes you laugh only to wait for the realisation to dawn on you and make you deeply disheartened; think SMBC existential comics that actually work).

... currently slowing reading aSoIaF makes me realise I don't have much non-mainstream non-stream reading going on for the last months. @_@

And I won't complain about HS matchmaking, prevented me from butchering my game yesterday (note to self: make sure you clicked your deadly poison and not a coldblood before you attack a 3-2 with your hero on turn 2; actually, just stop playing at 3 AM).
And the combo Lightspawn turn 4 -> Divine Spirit+Inner Fire turn 5 is scary as heck. Yay for a random silence drafted "just because, you never know" and already in hand.

Gahlo

United States35174 Posts

December 19 2013 10:36 GMT

#16183

Hur, I'm priest, my removal suite is fucking dumb. Burn for 2, burn for 2, kill =<3, kill =<3, kill =<5.

Priest are the new mage. Riot, get on this toxic shit.

Duvon

Sweden2360 Posts

December 19 2013 10:48 GMT

#16184

I'd pick non-fiction for work-reading, unless it's a really really slack job.
Our changing planet is a good introduction into environmental stuffs.

Fictionwise, a few of us here are into the Malazan book of the Fallen by Erikson.

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

December 19 2013 13:54 GMT

#16185

On December 19 2013 19:36 Gahlo wrote:
Hur, I'm priest, my removal suite is fucking dumb. Burn for 2, burn for 2, kill =<3, kill =<3, kill =<5.

Priest are the new mage. Riot, get on this toxic shit.

and what happens if you have any good units like archmage or azure drake which give spell damage AND can't be removed
you're just fucked
fucking priests so bad
or if someone has a weapon you can't do anything anything close to card efficient if you didn't draw ooze

I don't think people even run 2 SW:D just becase of how many games you'd lose with 2 SW:D and a MC in your hand
like burn for 2 is the weakest nuke in the game wtff

mordek

United States12705 Posts

December 19 2013 13:57 GMT

#16186

Why'd you choose priest teut?

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21245 Posts

December 19 2013 14:22 GMT

#16187

you're all reading plebs get on my reading level

jcarlsoniv

United States27922 Posts

December 19 2013 14:24 GMT

#16188

sry Cheep, we can't all be asian

Duvon

Sweden2360 Posts

December 19 2013 14:24 GMT

#16189

On December 19 2013 23:22 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
you're all reading plebs get on my reading level

No!

AsmodeusXI

United States15536 Posts

December 19 2013 14:24 GMT

#16190

On December 19 2013 23:22 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
you're all reading plebs get on my reading level

halp pls need book tier list plox

Slayer91

Ireland23335 Posts

December 19 2013 14:30 GMT

#16191

On December 19 2013 22:57 mordek wrote:
Why'd you choose priest teut?

couldn't really play shit like warrior with starter cards while priest starters are pretty solid and trying to use heal to make trades efficient and get board control is pretty fun
but then shamans and their fucking overload wolves and fireelementals and their 25% wrath of air totem into one shot everything ffuuu

my gripe is that half the spells are useless because stacking up peoples health to massive levels gets countered really easily by removal spells turning it into a 2 for 1
i mean you can use divine spirit to make a trade better if they can just remove it but you can just play dark iron dwarf or something and get the same effect but have a whole extra minion

Lord Tolkien

United States12083 Posts

December 19 2013 14:39 GMT

#16192

On December 19 2013 23:22 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
you're all reading plebs get on my reading level

Upping the ante to Romance of the Three Kingdoms then.

Zhuge Liang is best Marty Sue.