tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477143695543382552.post7380407449110964167..comments2024-03-11T07:25:29.540+00:00Comments on Nicola Vincent-Abnett: The Longest Apprenticeship in the WorldNicola Vincent-Abnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04865608045342419682noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477143695543382552.post-76941718698797260352012-06-06T10:02:25.703+01:002012-06-06T10:02:25.703+01:00this isn't so much for Nik, as it is for every...this isn't so much for Nik, as it is for everyone else ... *RANT ALERT*<br /><br />"If you haven’t read them already, I would urge you to seek out “The Eisenhorn Trilogy” and “The Ravenor Trilogy”; you won’t be disappointed."<br /><br />"The husband is very good at what he does... very, very good."<br /><br />this isn't just "he's my hubby, I have to say stuff like this" ... he really is very, very, VERY good, and so are the above mentioned trilogies.<br /><br />now that's out of the way ... a 'brief' history.<br /><br />at one stage I was dreadfully behind. if memory serves, around the time I first read a Dan Abnett novel I was only just getting into the Black Library stuff. someone had lent me William King's "Space Wolf" and Sandy Mitchell's "For The Emporer" (and between both fine novels, I never looked back). I'd since moved on to the first three Horus Heresy novels, and I was mighty impressed so I decided to delve further.<br /><br />someone at the local GW store recommended some of his other stuff, but it looked like a lot of books (thankfully there was an omnibus or five). once I'd read the first book, I was in a damn hurry to catch up. unfortunately I was also in the first year of my return to university and had myself on a short leash (when it comes to novels I'm very much the great devourer).<br /><br />five omnibi and a few Heresy novels later I'm even more of a fan. not to mention I've since read much from his esteemed company, messieurs Dembski-Bowden, Sanders, Kyme, Thorpe, Lee, Swallow, McNeill, and Counter.<br /><br />somewhere along the line I even decided that maybe I could string a few sentences that people would pay for. all in all it has been most inspirational. plus, it's how I ended up here in the first place :D<br /><br />that said, I will be suffering until there's a few more Gaunt's Ghosts (plug, plug) novels (enough for an omnibus maybe?) and the next two novels in the new trilogy (again, the omnibus).<br /><br />Mr. Abnett is proof that good, no, great things take time, but are most certainly worth waiting for!<br /><br />(not unlike Triumff which is only two days away from being devoured ... plug, plug, plug!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com