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Subject: Which, In Your Opinion, Is The Best and Worst of the Halo Novels?
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  • 11.29.2010 7:44 PM PDT
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Best: Onyx
Worst: The Flood.

  • 11.29.2010 8:00 PM PDT

Worst: The Flood
Most Boring: Cole Proticol
Best: Either FoR or Onyx
Best Short Stories: A tie between The Impossible Life and Probable Death of Preston Cole and Dirt.

  • 11.29.2010 8:22 PM PDT

Hands down Onyx is the best. I was actually ok with the flood, but Cole can take a giant leap into the "die in a fire" pile...

  • 11.29.2010 8:25 PM PDT
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Agreed. the Cole Protocol read like a bad fan fic. Absolutely terrible dialogue.

  • 11.29.2010 8:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: Old Salty27
Worst: The Flood
Most Boring: Cole Proticol
Best: Either FoR or Onyx
Best Short Stories: A tie between The Impossible Life and Probable Death of Preston Cole and Dirt.


I rather enjoyed the Flood. Onyx I found rather boring for most of the time I read it. Dirt was a good read, haven't read FoR yet, and I don't own Cole Proticol yet.

  • 11.29.2010 8:38 PM PDT

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The worst is defiantly The Flood. It was better when it wasn't retelling the story from the game.

The Best full novel would have to be uhhhhhhh. I'll go with Onyx.

Best Short Stories are definitely Dirt and The Mona Lisa.

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My Opinion.

BEST: Fall of Reach or Ghosts of Onyx

WORST: The Flood or The Cole Protocol.

  • 11.29.2010 9:28 PM PDT

Best: Ghosts of Onyx, First Strike, Mona Lisa, Dirt.

Worst: The flood, i found that it had to much combat storytelling when it was talking about the chief.

Also, there wern't enough chapters in the flood, when you know that you have to stop reading to go and do somthing, i like to finish at the end of a chapter, but in the flood, the chapters were so long that it could take you another 40-60 mins.

  • 11.30.2010 12:26 AM PDT
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Was dirt the one wth the rookie odst? that should of beeen made in to a full story.

  • 11.30.2010 3:38 AM PDT

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Favorite: Ghosts of Oynx/Halo Evolutions[ILaPDoPJC, Dirt, Mona Lisa, Pariah.]
Disliked: The Flood(Chief sections/Zuka sections. I loved the marines point of view though, there was too little of it.) Cole Protocol was really boring too. (Palace Hotel from Evolutions was also pretty bad.)

  • 11.30.2010 5:32 AM PDT

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Wow... Um, my favorite was The Flood, apparently that's a really unpopular choice.

It would be hard to say one is the worst, but I really don't remember much of anything about First Strike, so I'll say that.

  • 11.30.2010 6:02 AM PDT

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Out of every Halo Novel, I would say Fall Of Reach is the best of the best. Because it gets out the main story of what is going on in the Halo Canon, and the worst novel would probably be The Cole protocol. (That's just my opinion)

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I'll exclude Evolutions, but this is starting with the worst and ending with the best:

Contact Harvest
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
The Cole Protocol
The Fall of Reach

What's with the Cole Protocol hate? I thought it was underrated, but not THAT much.

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  • 11.30.2010 7:17 AM PDT

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  • 11.30.2010 7:54 AM PDT

Best: Fall of Reach or Contact Harvest
Worst: The Flood

  • 11.30.2010 8:10 AM PDT

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Favorite: Fall of Reach
Worst: The Flood

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Best: GoO/TFoR
Worst: The Flood, The author tried too hard to remind the reader of the video game. The section about Jenkins and the marines were good though.

  • 11.30.2010 8:17 AM PDT

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Best: First Strike or Ghosts of Onyx

Worst: Cole Protocol

  • 11.30.2010 8:58 AM PDT

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You're all entitled to your opinions, but for those of you who say that Contact Harvest was the worst, your opinion sucks.

I'm re-reading The Fall of Reach at the moment, and while the overall story is good and fine, the characters, and their development are pretty flat. Granted, being conscripted to the military at age six, I'm not expecting to relate to any of the Spartans, but characters like Halsey and Keyes are completely boring and have pretty pathetic dialogue in my opinion.

It's not until First Strike that I actually give a -blam!- about Halsey (which was kind of spoiled by the choice to make her such a -blam!- in Halo: Reach); and even after Keyes has an entire book dedicated where he's the main character, he's still a little meh.

For me, Contact Harvest is by far the best written book of the series, made even more relevant by drawing some parallels to real-life current events.

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  • 11.30.2010 9:27 AM PDT

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"Sometimes life gives you lemons, and then you have to say 'f**k the lemons' and bail."

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Also, I think The Flood would have benefited from putting Master Chief's story on the back burner and focusing more on the marines' storyline.

Although I agree that the Zuka plot sucked.

  • 11.30.2010 9:31 AM PDT

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Best:
- Ghosts of Onyx
- Contact Harvest

Worst:
- The Flood

The other 3 are fine, good but not fantastic.

  • 11.30.2010 9:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Primo84
Also, I think The Flood would have benefited from putting Master Chief's story on the back burner and focusing more on the marines' storyline.

Although I agree that the Zuka plot sucked.

I agree. The Marine's point of view was the books only strong suit.

  • 11.30.2010 12:18 PM PDT

I finished the Flood today, and it seems I am not the only one who hated it.

I agree with the common oppinion, the parts with the marines were the best, though I couldn't help but slightly resent that he got ODSTs wrong -.-

I also kinda liked Zuka's and Yayap's parts, my only problem is he didn't do enough with them, they were kinda one dimensional.

  • 11.30.2010 1:36 PM PDT

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Best:
- Ghosts of Onyx
- Contact Harvest

Worst:
- The Flood

The other 3 are fine, good but not fantastic.


You haven't even read Fall of Reach, First Strike or Cole Protocol!

But I still agree with you.

:P

  • 11.30.2010 1:52 PM PDT

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