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Subject: Anyone else reading the books and feel more immersed in Halo?

Life is too short to spend it putting down others. Make the best of it.

I've been reading the Halo books (Fall of Reach, Evolutions, The Flood, etc. etc.) for a while, and with each one I feel like I am more and more involved in the game. With Harvest, with it mainly focusing on Johnson, I started cheering on Johnson. I just love 'em though. Reading them makes me feel like I'm playing Halo while I'm reading haha. Anyone else felt like that? Or is it just me?

  • 08.18.2010 9:54 PM PDT

ya i read fall of reach few weeks ago. then started on the flood but couldn't really get into it. i played halo:ce waaaay to much. but fall of reach was really great made me even more pumped for reach.

  • 08.18.2010 11:43 PM PDT

the books are amazing

  • 08.19.2010 5:11 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Contact Harvest and Ghosts of Onyx are my favourite Halo novels. Staten did a fantastic job on Contact Harvest, the relationship between Sif & Mack and Lighter Than Some & Dadab were developed really well.

Sif's final request brought a lump to my throat, echoing a conversation she had about Shakespeare with Mack where they were on hostile terms.

And Ghosts of Onyx was amazing, I love Spartan-IIIs because they're such rich characters. Kurt's dying words are so badass.

"One last fight, human. You will die and we shall reopen the Silver Path!"

"Die?" Kurt laughed. "Didn't you know?" he told the Elite. "... Spartans never die."

Kurt turned his gauntlet face-up and pressed the detonator.

  • 08.19.2010 5:22 PM PDT

I am the Kirbler.

Meh, only books I liked were First Strike (mildly), Fall of Reach, The Cole Protocol and Contact Harvest. I guess I just feel that they made an emotionless character (Master Chief) and made him even less emotional, with a cast of other emotionless soldiers. Everyone else who has to fill that role of emotion (Keyes, Halsey, marines, ect.) are almost if not just as emotionless.
A lot of people hat me for not liking Ghosts of Onyx but I just found it so boring, it was like a sludge through a bunch of information about how it took nearly 15 pages for Kelly to come up with a way to get to Onyx. It literally bored me to death, and I couldn't bear anymore after about 200 pages.
The Cole Protocol is one of my favorites, despite not a lot of people liking it. For once, the Spartans had a personality, and most of the characters were original and entertaining to listen to.
Jusy my two cents, TL;DR

  • 08.19.2010 5:48 PM PDT