That could be a couple different ones.

But, Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn had his ability to show emotion severed during interrogation by an enemy, and due to that person's ineptitude at torture, he lost the connection for some nerves in his face. I'm reading that series now, having started several books too far into it and finding a 'you're the clone of other character from the first few books' and needing to restart so I could get the full context

"I just wanted to know how it ends!"

It never really pays off, just read a summary.

Me with Death Note

They didn't expect the success of the first few that made the times best seller list, thats like massively more than they expected to sell, so they increased the planned number and the quality dropped massively as they expanded to the authors to suit.

If you read just the best books you'd still get the same favour but cut it to about 20 books or so, including the best ones in the Siege of Terra that are the actual ending.

I got suckered in because the first book was by Dan Abnett, and I ran out of both Eisenhorn and Gaunt's Ghosts, so Horus Heresy sounded like a good idea. I read about a dozen of them before I realised the poor quality of most of them outweights by investment in the story and gave up.

Same, but I bought the Culture novels. They were fine, except the ugly parts.

I read them all back in high school when I was a good, Christian boy. Loved 'em. Read them again within the last couple of years. Even with the faith aspect removed, they're a fun enough read. Doesn't take much brain power to get through them

I read all of them in second grade and was obsessed/traumatized. Now as an adult I’ve realized they’re airplane fiction - mindlessly easy to read, not well written. It’s funny when you realize Buck and Rayford are author self inserts.

I like to pick them up from thrift stores now and mutilate them for art projects.

Dentist: "so have you noticed any teeth gritting lately?"

I think that idea was why I avoided warhammer writing. One meme about the fart ladder and I realized it wasn't worth the paper it was written on.

Get some other nerd on YouTube to read it out so you can be a nerd with different stuff.

The Owlcat game is pretty cool

As a person who's not into the table top games, but loves the lore.

I watch/listen to a few channels:

WesHammer - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDj6ttwzj2sr464jDdg_pA

He does a short introduction (on camera), then the rest is audio with relevant artwork and some video from the games.

Aside from the usual deep-dives into the various factions and popular characters, I enjoy his Grim Dark Story Hour vids. These focus on creepy (horror) short stories from random Warhammer books, where Wes does some voice acting as well.

The Sleepy Hollow - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC86zNGwCUt5gBnizRSWSLuA

Warhammer lore (and game lore). It's meant to be for helping people get to sleep. But I listen to it during the day. If you do use it for sleep, watch out for the super loud Youtube ads that play in the middle, if you don't have Premium or use Peertube.

There are a lot of other Youtubers that do good content as well, like Arbitor Ian etc.

The top two are my recommendations.

For 40k, I've been watching a lot of bricky (also does non warhammer stuff so I've linked a specific video) and krakduk. (does the annoying youtuber voice, if that gets on your nerves it might not be the channel for you)

There is also the lexicanum for everything 40k, old fantasy, and age of sigmar.

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Read just the novels by Dan Abnett. All he writes is solid gold. The quality of the rest is wildly uneven.

I would recommend The All Guardsman Party as a pick up along the way experience. For lore summary and criticism see 1d6chan's wiki for traditional games.

if you have a couple hours per video to kill, Luetin09 on youtube. Otherwise, and honestly this is how I learned most of the lore, youtube shorts. Astartesanonymous gives the best shorts with a basic introduction and then lore. Isyander & Koda is another good channel.

Same for Sanderson. It seems like he tries to subvert expectations at the end of every book 2 but he only ends destroying everything he's established.

I completely stopped reading his stuff when I found out that he is a Mormon and graduated from BYU.

So when did it start getting good?

1d6chan is kind of a fun way to read up on it. Less serious and address some of the silliness of 40k in a tongue in cheek way.

Ciaphas Cain books are great. Any Dan Abnett works are good

I wasted money on this, but to make up for it, I also wasted my time

They did!