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Subject: Joe Staten's Dulcet Tones on NPR

Joseph Staten, author of New York Times Bestselling Halo novel Contact Harvest, was on NPR's All Things Considered; listen to the interview within.


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  • 01.08.2008 5:10 PM PDT
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Neato.

  • 01.08.2008 5:11 PM PDT
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Yep.
Oh yeh, nd ending of book, that was interesting. Action throughout, then broke tension with that little scene at the end of the book. It was jokes. Don't worry Johnson, we still regard you as more of a man than any of us!

respect, peace out
zaeet

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  • 01.08.2008 5:12 PM PDT

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This is cool. I love books, I love Halo. So, this book book sounds really great....

[Edited on 01.19.2008 11:09 AM PST]

  • 01.08.2008 5:20 PM PDT

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Wow, if you actually listened, she just called all of us Halo fans "geeks". I beg to differ.

  • 01.08.2008 5:21 PM PDT

I for one wouldn't have minded longer cutscenes for backstory. I would love to set down the controller and watch stuff being explained in detail about the covenent or even the last stand of the Forerunners. That interview does make me want to read that book, but i couldn't help but notice how un-rehearsed the interviewer sounded at the beginning.

  • 01.08.2008 5:24 PM PDT

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  • 01.08.2008 5:30 PM PDT
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They picked a woman who has never played Halo and has no appreciation for games or gamers to do the interview. Nice.

  • 01.08.2008 5:34 PM PDT

I was a little disappointed that the interview was a little...superficial. It seemed most of the time of the piece was spent explaining what the hell halo was, but thats expected from a national publication that rarely delves into video games. I was hoping for some new truths into the motivations of the man, or maybe an answer to why this bungie writer in particular happens to do the voice for one of their aliens you brutally massacre over and over again.

Good listen, none the less.

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  • 01.08.2008 5:40 PM PDT

That reporter makes me sick. I hate when people put things down that they don't understand. Why don't you play a game before you act too good for them, missy.

Great job, Joe. I love your book. :)

  • 01.08.2008 5:42 PM PDT
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Sigs just aren't what they used to be.

<3 Staten.

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Was that lady biased against us gamers or something? Because it sure sounded like it. "Do gamers read?" What the heck! Great job on your book Joe!

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  • 01.08.2008 5:43 PM PDT

"The debts of meat will live on in eternia." -lukems

yeah, she was very condescending, and mostly through interjected audio, not during the Q&A with Joe.

NPR jerksnob.

  • 01.08.2008 5:46 PM PDT

I'm not that active, but never dead.

Gamers are obviously lesser life forms for these 'reporters'.

I thought Faux News was bad, but this is worse.

-MAZ

  • 01.08.2008 5:49 PM PDT

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alright!

  • 01.08.2008 6:02 PM PDT

(best line of halo 3)"thought I'd try shootin my way out,mix things up a little".
rofl my waffles

After her saying gamers are geeks, I think her and Joe should have compared paychecks.Awesome book joe.Also why is she biased towards gamers did a halo fan rob her or something.If you are going to put down something like that you should really give it a try first.

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  • 01.08.2008 6:10 PM PDT
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Didn't like that she said all of the readers were "geeks".

  • 01.08.2008 6:15 PM PDT

NPR more like -blam!- Party Radio

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Wow very cool. i have read the book and i must say it was the only book that i have ever no-lifed on. It was an awsome bend of story and action. <3 Staten, <3 Dadab.

  • 01.08.2008 6:17 PM PDT

(best line of halo 3)"thought I'd try shootin my way out,mix things up a little".
rofl my waffles

I hope that wasn't the n-word under that blam

  • 01.08.2008 6:17 PM PDT
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I hope that wasn't the n-word under that blam

Noob?



And yeah, that -blam!- was a little pretentious...

I was severly annoyed by her perspective. If it's not that damn important, why are you doing a piece on it?

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  • 01.08.2008 6:36 PM PDT

I thought that we were supposed to be unsubscribing from NPR's wait, wait, don't tell me quiz, and now it's on the front page of bungie.net? Sheesh, management around here :)

  • 01.08.2008 6:38 PM PDT
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i loved the book but all i heard from that interviewer was contempt

  • 01.08.2008 6:44 PM PDT

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Hmmm.....intruiging

  • 01.08.2008 7:04 PM PDT

Thanks for posting this, Luke. You gave me the reason to never listen to an NPR podcast, more than yours and Frank's word. When the interviewer shows nothing but contempt for Halo and its fans, is drives me away, and probably most of the others who already posted. Seriously, she made us sound like nothing but -blam!- idiots and jackasses. Geeks? Maybe some, but not all of us. I'll admit I'm a nerd, but so what?

Oh yeah, and great job on the book, Joe. In the process of reading it now.

[Edited on 01.08.2008 7:10 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2008 7:06 PM PDT

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