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Michaelbirks t1_ja6eicp wrote

Reply to comment by Letholdus13131313 in Warhammer: I'm surprised how good it is. by PregnancyRoulette

It's genre pulp, like Mills & Boon, or the annual Sandford or Grisham releases.

Also, we fans have a pronounced tendency to descend rapidly to "Waaaggghhh! MAKE IT ORKY!"

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Letholdus13131313 t1_ja6evco wrote

I mean yeah? But pulp is good.

Lunatics, all of them. But I do adore them.

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carnajo t1_ja6y0p9 wrote

I think many people forget (or never knew) that a lot of what we consider "classics" was pulp or serials at the time. Not saying that warhammer novels are the futures classics (who knows though) but yeah, nothing wrong with pulp and good old entertainment.

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Scungilli-Man69 t1_ja725fv wrote

Hell yeah dude. The Count of Monte Cristo is considered a literary classic, and it is serial pulp goodness at its core.

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carnajo t1_ja72v23 wrote

Yeah and my memory fails me at the moment but there are a number of literary classics that were originally published as newspaper/magazine periodicals. I believe a lot of Dostoyevsky was but I'm sure there were others including English classics.

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Disaborted t1_ja8gkx3 wrote

Edgar Allen Poe springs to mind. Most of his stories were originally published in newspapers as episodic filler.

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Letholdus13131313 t1_ja6y7a0 wrote

To be fair.

And again taking it into consideration that this series is pulp and fun.

Some of those books feel like I'm getting bullied.

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