Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-8894489-20130429062300/@comment-86.176.119.11-20130514165632

in my humble opinion you should stay well clear of the Horus Heresy novels until you've read a good amount of the other stuff first.

I say this because a friend of mine only started reading warhammer a year ago but started with the heresy books, he said he just cant  enjoy the 40k stuff as much now, (although he does enjoy them) its kinda hard to get into it once you've read about primarchs and the emperor first hand.

Maybe start with a battle novel first, only one story and from there you could have a better idea of where your tastes are. if you start with a book which is part of an omnibus you may feel obliged to read them all (if your like me that is).

To be honest from my opinion they're all pretty good but my current favourite which is not part of the Horus Hersey is 'Legion of Damned'

Hope this is a help, but truthfully you cant really go wrong.