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Subject: Which, In Your Opinion, Is The Best and Worst of the Halo Novels?

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Best Novel : Onyx

Best Shorts : Impossible life/death of J. Preston Cole, Dirt, Midnight in the heart.., and headhunters

  • 12.15.2010 11:41 AM PDT

best onyx and worst cole protical the flood was ok

  • 12.15.2010 11:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: BiologicalVirus
best onyx and worst cole protical the flood was ok

I'm rereading The Cole Protocol right now...... man is this dialog painfully bad.

  • 12.16.2010 1:23 PM PDT

well best would be eather fall of reach or contact harvest
my least fav was the flood but the flood wasint that bad i actually liked it a bit

  • 12.16.2010 5:08 PM PDT

You can find me lurking the flood. Bring snacks.

They're all good novels, my favor it is Onyx, but I liked Cole, and Harvest.

  • 12.16.2010 5:20 PM PDT

Worst: Flood - Crap dialogue and the exact same as Halo CE
Boring: FoR - Nothing exciting happened, was hoping for some big battle
Best: First Strike - Best way to fill in the gaps from Halo CE to Halo 2

  • 12.16.2010 10:21 PM PDT

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  • 12.21.2010 12:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: avalanche16fd
Best to Worst:

Flood
Ghosts Of Onyx
Fall Of Reach
Harvest
Cole Protocol
First Strike


Just For Evolutions:
Best To Worst:

Mona Lisa!
Headhunters
Midnight In The Heart Of Midlothian (Loved The animation of this as-well!)
The Return
Stomping On The Heels Of A Fuss
Human Weakness
Blunt Instruments
Palace Hotel
The Impossible Life and Possible Death...
Pariah
Dirt (Which is where this one belongs)

Looking forward to Cryptum, the new Forerunner trilogy by Greg Bear ;)

You think the Flood is the best halo novel? Why Might I ask?

And Dirt was amazing!


Sorry, forgot about this thread.
The Flood i liked because it showed how the marines coped under the stress of uncovering a totally new unheard weapon of mass destruction. When people say this novel was just a re-telling of halo CE i don't think they realise how deep the story went into the lives of the marines. Look at Jenkins.
I liked the way that Zamamme held a personal grudge against the MC and had his own little sections where we learn how he met him at the end of the game.
I guess some people like it more than others.

As for Dirt...
I can't stand first person novels. At all. every time i have tried to read it I just skip it to read another short in Evolutions. It doesn't get my attention no matter how many times i try to read it. I'll try agin tonight but...no promises...
:)
Alex.

  • 12.21.2010 12:37 PM PDT

All roads lead to Sol.

Best was defiantly Onyx. Had that novel been bad, Spartan III's in Reach would not have been tolerated.

Hopefully Greg Bear's Forerunner trilogy will be good.

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  • 12.21.2010 12:49 PM PDT
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Best: The Fall of Reach was pretty good at the time, although I haven't read it in the past few years.

The Cole Protocol: Worst book, ever.

  • 12.21.2010 1:18 PM PDT

When your out of options, your trying the wrong options.

Best: First Strike


Worst:Contact Harvest

  • 12.21.2010 8:20 PM PDT

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Agreed, The Fall Of Reach gets the most information out to the reader about the Halo Canon.
Posted by: Tibetz
Best: The Fall of Reach was pretty good at the time, although I haven't read it in the past few years.

The Cole Protocol: Worst book, ever.

  • 12.21.2010 8:23 PM PDT

Best: Fall of Reach or First Strike
Worst: The flood or Cole protocol

  • 12.22.2010 2:12 AM PDT

Que Pasta...?
:D

Best novel: FoR, or Onyx.

Best short: The impossible life and the possible death of Preston J. Cole.

Worst short: The Mona Lisa (That thing droned on for HOURS)

Worst novel: The flood(I've already done the gameplay thanks...)

Worst overall: The Mona Lisa (I seriously hated this)

  • 12.22.2010 4:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: carpy444
Best novel: FoR, or Onyx.

Best short: The impossible life and the possible death of Preston J. Cole.

Worst short: The Mona Lisa (That thing droned on for HOURS)

Worst novel: The flood(I've already done the gameplay thanks...)

Worst overall: The Mona Lisa (I seriously hated this)

I liked "The Mona Lisa". It reminded me of "The Thing"! hahaha

  • 12.28.2010 9:30 PM PDT

My favorite novel was Contact Harvest.

My least favorite novel was The Flood.

  • 12.28.2010 9:46 PM PDT

Some of the greatest characters in Halo are black....
Johnson.
Romeo.
Emile. (You know it's true.)

Its a tie between Contact Harvest and The Ghosts of Onyx. There were a lot of good stories in Halo Evolutions, but none come to mind right now. The worst was probably the Flood, comparatively. So many errors, but it brought to light many an untold story of the Pillar of Autumn's crew.

  • 12.28.2010 11:12 PM PDT

If you're passionate about the thing you're talking about, I'll always lend an ear.

My favorites: Fall of Reach, Ghost of Onyx, First Strike.

Least Fav: The Cole protocol.

Honestly anything written by Eric Nylund is pure Halo Gold.
Just look at Halsey's journal as well. The guy makes Halo, Halo.

  • 12.29.2010 8:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

It pisses me off how everybody hates "the flood". I have favorite sections in the novels, becuase i can't pick a favorite out of any. but i can say i really did like the flood BECAUSE it showed what was going on during halo CE. I felt a connection bing able to read the book and then play the game and say " so and so is doing this right now, so and so is fighting him right now". I liked being able to have that referance.

I just wished they wrote a book for halo 2 and 3, especially halo 3 becuase it might not have sucked so bad.


And i think the forerunner novels will be my favorate books.

  • 12.29.2010 9:01 AM PDT

Welp.

Best full novel: First Strike. Really cleared up a lot of things like how in Sam Hill did Chief and the others make it home and such.

Worst full novel: Ghosts of Onyx. I know I'm probably gonna get crucified for this, but I just didn't care that much for the storyline and I'm still waiting to find out what happens to the rest of Blue Team after they went into the shield world

Best short story(s): Dirt because I love ODST stories, Pariah because it told of something I actually wondered years ago: Have there ever been Spartans who've defected to the Insurrection?, and Human Weakness because it showed what Cortana went through during her time on High Charity and why she was "out of place" in Halo 3

Worst short story: Stomping on the Heels of a Fuss because the story wasn't anything special and the ending could have been better

  • 12.29.2010 9:13 AM PDT

Posted by: grey101

I only disliked The Flood because I felt that Dietz didn't know what he was writing about (same as Buckell for TCP), and that Chief wasn't portrayed as he should have been.

Other than that, I enjoyed the segments that showed what was happening to the Marines on the Installation.

  • 12.29.2010 11:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: grey101

I only disliked The Flood because I felt that Dietz didn't know what he was writing about (same as Buckell for TCP), and that Chief wasn't portrayed as he should have been.

Other than that, I enjoyed the segments that showed what was happening to the Marines on the Installation.

Agreed.

The Marine's POV was by far the only redeeming part of that train wreck.

  • 12.30.2010 4:30 PM PDT
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Cole protocol was horrible, onyx and FoR were easily the best, followed by first strike

  • 12.30.2010 6:53 PM PDT
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Honestly, I love them all. Although if I had to be stuck with one it would be Ghosts of Onyx. The one I definately wouldn't be stuck with is "The Flood".

  • 12.30.2010 8:42 PM PDT

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