Favourite and Least Favourite novels

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Simple question.
Favourites
1. Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm (I loved how all of the characters were endearing, regardless of faction, and Golden managed to capture the feeling of each chapter excellently)
2. Arthas: Rise of the Lick King
3. Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War

Least Favourite
1. Dawn of the Aspects (This one read like a fanfiction. It was one of the worst pieces of literature I've ever read. If I have to read Knaak refer to Kalecgos as 'The Blue' again, I'm going to vomit)
2. Stormrage
3. Wolfheart

[Deleted]

Favorite: The Last Guardian
Least Favorite: War Crimes

[Sett]

Favorite: Cycle of Hatred, Arthas, Of Blood and Honor, Lord of the Clans

Least favorite: Stormrage, War of the Ancients triology (lumping them together), Night of the Dragon, Shadows of the Horde

[Jaspias]

The most well written: War Crimes. Golden somehow managed to make me want to read an entire book of flashbacks in one night.

Personal favorite: Arthas: Rise of the Lich King. While it kind of failed at it's goal of telling of Artha's life and humanizing the villain, (it was mostly a babied prince crying over his horse) it did flesh out some grey areas surrounding the Lich King, and it made me see why Kael'thas went the direction he did in BC

[Caerule]

I like most of em, especially some of the Christie Golden ones.

I dislike Stormrage and Cycle of Hatred a lot.

I wasn't a fan of the latest one, War Crimes, either. Because most of the book is flashback from other books and scenes, and the rest of the plots revealed no new lore that furthers the world of warcraft, beyond those stories themselves. I read the books to expand my knowledge of Azeroth. This book just gave flashbacks and its own plotline.

[Verdugo]

Golden somehow managed to make me want to read an entire book of flashbacks in one night.

It also made you into a spam bot apparently.

[Wildmoon]

I like WotA trilogy,The Last Guardian,Cycle of Hatred,Arthas:Rise of the Lich King. I despise Twilight of the Aspects.

[Golden Yak]

Day of the Dragon and Lord of the Clans were pretty good. Twilight of the Aspects was really awful. I also enjoyed the WotA books. I've picked up a few others, but nothing stands out as either really good or bad. Funny, most of the actual WoW series is forgettable, it's the Warcraft pre-WoW books that are the most enjoyable to me.

[OIS]

Lord of the Clans was awesome. Unfortunately, it is hard to choose which book is the worst, many of them qualifies for that position. I'm especially torn between Twilight of the Aspects and Night of the Dragon.

[Zulkhan]

Favourites:

1-Lord of the Clans
2-Rise of the Horde
3-Shadows of the Horde

Least favourite: everything wrote by Knaak.

[Okacz]

Favourite: The Last Guardian. The only WoW novel I could recommend to anyone, it's fun to read and has a lot of stuff related to game mechanics, which only makes it more clever for the players.

Least favourite: Tides of War. Really, this one feels like the worst piece of fiction I stumbled across, more of a prolonged fanfiction than an actual book. Just painfull to read.

[Sindile]

Best=Lord of Clans or The Shattering
Worst= Tides of war or War crimes

[Trassk]

Fav - lord of the clans, simply because it felt like a better time, and a real changing pace, this was the time when the orcs fate changed for them, and Thrall being the reason for that. It was the first time we really got to see another side to the orcs, something warcraft hadn't done prior to this, they became more complex characters then just the 'bad guys' for the allinace to swing at.

Least - its a toss up between warcrimes and shadows of the horde. Yes ones like war of the ancient and wolfheart are bad, but Knaaks work you expect to be bad, like a cheap sci movie from the 80s. What made warcrimes and shadows of the horde bad, was that with warcrimes, it felt like this was the transition when goldens creative work about warcrafts characters stopped being about that, and started being a reflection of the insanity that now turning these once loved characters to shit, its not her fault, its just the awful blizzard devs making her write it.
And shadows of the horde was just testing waters for a new writer, used as a means to try and make vol'jin seem relevent by having a book made for him, as blizzards means to justify making him warchief, when the story itself was just him doing what he does best, nothing, one of the most boring books I've read in the series, since at least knaak is bad in an entertaining way.

[Ramz]

[...] when the story itself was just him doing what he does best, nothing, one of the most boring books I've read in the series, since at least knaak is bad in an entertaining way.

Good to know that repelling Zadalari invasion, bashing skulls, learning about balance (and the monk ways) is considered to be "doing nothing".

OT. I don't have any opinion yet, I know briefly what certain books are about. I have tides of War on my computer, and barely read some pages, but I was quite displeased with Jaina xdragon pairing. It just screems as bad fanfic to me.

I know that Knaack is known to be horrible writer for WoW stories, but Ironically his diablo books are pretty neat I have both of them,
In warcraft books he created one of the most hated characters that was Rhonin, but in "Kingdom of Shadows" he created one of the most loved Diablo characters- necromancer Zayl.

In War of Ancients he wrote embarrasing story about time traveling mage that leads army of raptors and saves night elves, but in Diablo series, his plots are very intruiging, in Blood Heritage it's about Bartuc's curse and poor warrior that tried the cursed armor and ever since he was witness of horrible events onwhich he had no power over, while behind he left killed friends who as ghouls tries to get back to him.

In Kingdom of Shadows, we had a story many players asks to appear in Diablo 3, the cursed kingdom of Ureh, that got stuck in limbo. We had two groups of people investigating said kingdom, how it became this way, and all the traces that lives to heretic priest, and nothing is what is seems to be.

I'm honestly confused how could he write such a good stories for Diablo and such horrible pieces for Warcraft. It's a huge mystery for me.

[Trassk]

Good to know that repelling Zadalari invasion, bashing skulls, learning about balance (and the monk ways) is considered to be "doing nothing".

So in other words though skimmed though notes on wowpedia about the book instead of reading it. I might hate vol'jin for being a do fuck all poser, but at least I pick up the dam novels and go though the pain of reading them.

[Ramz]

So in other words though skimmed though notes on wowpedia about the book instead of reading it. I might hate vol'jin for being a do fuck all poser, but at least I pick up the dam novels and go though the pain of reading them.

Being a poser and doing nothing sounds like oxymoron, to pose you actually have to do something to pose about.

But what I wanted to say is very simple fact that - If there are such events like invasion, battle, where there is bloodshed, and where you can see character participating in it, then by definition it's not "doing nothing". Doing nothing would be lying in your bed all day long. My impression is that you only hate him because he is Warchief now, as I saw your older posts and you seemed to be a huge fan of him before. Quite a strange 180 degree spin.

And besides I said that I can't voice my opinion becuase I don't know all of the books to actually form any opinion on it. I haven't read any recent new becuase I have other less lyrical things to read.

[Cl4nK]

My impression is that you only hate him because he is Warchief now, as I saw your older posts and you seemed to be a huge fan of him before. Quite a strange 180 degree spin.

You're not the first one to point that out and most likely won't be the last.

Gotta hate what's mainstream dawg. It's all about dem memes.

[Zulkhan]

You're not the first one to point that out and most likely won't be the last.

Probably because is not an impression but a fact hilariously easy to document. Checking someone's posts' history is hardly a big deal.

[Octavius]

Best: WotA, not in particular for the writing way or the characters, but because explained a very far and dark piece of warcraft history. I like Arthas: rotlk too. The shattering was good in most parts.
Worst: tides of war and warcrimes. Twilight of the aspects was quiet boring.

[Warcite]

Favorite

1) The Last Guardian
2) The Shattering
3) Arthas

Least
1) Dawn of the Aspects
2) Stormrage
3) Wolfheart