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Subject: Do / Did you enjoy reading the Halo novels?
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Posted by: SirPwn4g3
I've greatly enjoyed reading the novels. I'm torn as to which is my favorite at the moment, Cryptum, Contact Harvest, and Fall of Reach.

My favorite moment is in Harvest, and it's basically the whole book, as finally Johnson is a human, not the hardass soldier from the games. We see that he has emotions, and he's tough as nails to protect himself and those around him.
Also the Covenant relationships, they're not all the thing of nightmares out to plunder our women and -blam!- our villages, some of them aren't so different from us, but they follow orders.

My favorite Spartan so far is Jorge, other than that, I'd probably say Kelly. Kelly is always willing to be a human target for operations, knowing that she may misstep and it could all be over.

I have yet to read harvest, I have it, just haven't read it yet, and kelly is a great spartan too

  • 05.03.2011 2:41 PM PDT

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I enjoyed every novel except 'The Flood'. The author totally misportrayed Master Chief. However, my favourite has to be the 'Ghosts of Onyx'. I love the end with Kurt and his famous last words and the epic cliffhanger ending with the Shield World.

My favourite characters are Jacob Keyes, John 117, Kurt 051 and Fred 104.

[Edited on 05.03.2011 2:48 PM PDT]

  • 05.03.2011 2:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Thomsn0w
I enjoyed every novel except 'The Flood'. The author totally misportrayed Master Chief. However, my favourite has to be the 'Ghosts of Onyx'. I love the end with Kurt and his famous last words and the epic cliffhanger ending with the Shield World.

My favourite characters are Jacob Keyes, John 117, Kurt 051 and Fred 104.

There was a couple of scenes in The Flood that I really enjoyed though

  • 05.04.2011 8:23 AM PDT

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I enjoyed them particularly Ghosts of Onyx and Cryptum. My favourite Spartan is Fred, no explanation needed. He's awesome. My favourite scene is the whole last battle in GoO. There's tonnes of great action and that tense against the clock, backs against the wall, last stand feel. Will fist fights a Hunter! Awesome. And then there's Kurt's farewell gift along with "Spartans never die."

  • 05.04.2011 8:28 AM PDT

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Good times are had by all who read them.

  • 05.04.2011 8:39 AM PDT

I enjoy reading the Halo books, Halo Evolutions is a great read, and I have both volumes one and two. I like the way that different authors tell different stories from the Halo universe in their own style.

I have read other books such as; Ghosts of onyx, Fall of reach, The Flood and First strike, they are good in their own ways and my favorite part would have to be at the end of Ghosts of onyx when Kurt is faced with an army of covenant determined destroy everything in their path.

  • 05.04.2011 10:22 AM PDT

Silence fills the empty grave, now that I have gone
But my mind is not at rest, for questions linger on

Oh yes. Every single one of them.

However I didn't quite like Cole Protocol. I didn't like the fact that there was no time, date and location. It confused me at times.

  • 05.04.2011 12:30 PM PDT
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Favourite Scenes people!

  • 05.05.2011 7:52 AM PDT

It takes a real man to back down from a fight, but it takes a spartan to finish it!

My favorite novel character is Born Stellar.

  • 05.05.2011 7:56 AM PDT

Once a Mythic, always a Mythic. '04 or Bust.
Extr3me Escalator Diving

Elites of War
Indeed

Cole Protocol was easily my favourite book. Took us away from the war (relatively) to the actions of Grey Team.

Good times.

  • 05.05.2011 9:26 AM PDT

Please, no hurt! Me like Elites. Brutes stinky bad bad. Me stay here, make sure no Brutes come behind mighty Arbiter. Heh, heh... Eh?

I havent read all the books but i have read First strike,Fall of reach and ghosts of onyx
I love em all! :D
I just ordered the new comic version of fall of reach.

My favourite Books are well :/ Fall of reach and ghosts of onyx,Like how ghosts of onyx is about creation of the spartan III program,And fall of reach is about creation of The spartan IIs and the fall of reach.

My favourite Spartan Is Kurt-051 And Fred-104 but i kinda like all spartans :)

And the most memorable scene from fall of reach is all the spartan childhood training x) And the epic things they did on Reach.

Iam looking forward to the ghosts of onyx sequel,And i want to know what happens with Halsey,mendez,Fred,Linda,Kelly and all spartan IIIs

  • 05.05.2011 10:30 AM PDT
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Posted by: Lynk120
I havent read all the books but i have read First strike,Fall of reach and ghosts of onyx
I love em all! :D
I just ordered the new comic version of fall of reach.

My favourite Books are well :/ Fall of reach and ghosts of onyx,Like how ghosts of onyx is about creation of the spartan III program,And fall of reach is about creation of The spartan IIs and the fall of reach.

My favourite Spartan Is Kurt-051 And Fred-104 but i kinda like all spartans :)

And the most memorable scene from fall of reach is all the spartan childhood training x) And the epic things they did on Reach.

Iam looking forward to the ghosts of onyx sequel,And i want to know what happens with Halsey,mendez,Fred,Linda,Kelly and all spartan IIIs

The sequel has nothing to do with them, according to the author " New Characters, New story" Which im very disappointed about, but, they probably won't write a book until 343 do something, if 343 are doing something with Halsey and the others then a book about the exact same thing wouldn't be released before their game, It wouldn't happen, maybe that's why,
I'd say 343 are going to do 'alright' at making the game, most of them are EX-Bungie anyway

  • 05.05.2011 12:49 PM PDT

Please, no hurt! Me like Elites. Brutes stinky bad bad. Me stay here, make sure no Brutes come behind mighty Arbiter. Heh, heh... Eh?


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Posted by: Lynk120
I havent read all the books but i have read First strike,Fall of reach and ghosts of onyx
I love em all! :D
I just ordered the new comic version of fall of reach.

My favourite Books are well :/ Fall of reach and ghosts of onyx,Like how ghosts of onyx is about creation of the spartan III program,And fall of reach is about creation of The spartan IIs and the fall of reach.

My favourite Spartan Is Kurt-051 And Fred-104 but i kinda like all spartans :)

And the most memorable scene from fall of reach is all the spartan childhood training x) And the epic things they did on Reach.

Iam looking forward to the ghosts of onyx sequel,And i want to know what happens with Halsey,mendez,Fred,Linda,Kelly and all spartan IIIs

The sequel has nothing to do with them, according to the author " New Characters, New story" Which im very disappointed about, but, they probably won't write a book until 343 do something, if 343 are doing something with Halsey and the others then a book about the exact same thing wouldn't be released before their game, It wouldn't happen, maybe that's why,
I'd say 343 are going to do 'alright' at making the game, most of them are EX-Bungie anyway


What if the legendary planet is onyx? And John-117 meet his old friends etq :) if that is possible xP

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  • 05.05.2011 1:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lynk120

Posted by: Kaiba034
Posted by: Lynk120
I havent read all the books but i have read First strike,Fall of reach and ghosts of onyx
I love em all! :D
I just ordered the new comic version of fall of reach.

My favourite Books are well :/ Fall of reach and ghosts of onyx,Like how ghosts of onyx is about creation of the spartan III program,And fall of reach is about creation of The spartan IIs and the fall of reach.

My favourite Spartan Is Kurt-051 And Fred-104 but i kinda like all spartans :)

And the most memorable scene from fall of reach is all the spartan childhood training x) And the epic things they did on Reach.

Iam looking forward to the ghosts of onyx sequel,And i want to know what happens with Halsey,mendez,Fred,Linda,Kelly and all spartan IIIs

The sequel has nothing to do with them, according to the author " New Characters, New story" Which im very disappointed about, but, they probably won't write a book until 343 do something, if 343 are doing something with Halsey and the others then a book about the exact same thing wouldn't be released before their game, It wouldn't happen, maybe that's why,
I'd say 343 are going to do 'alright' at making the game, most of them are EX-Bungie anyway


What if the legendary planet is onyx?

That's fine, all I'm saying is, is that if 343 are making a game about onyx and chief, there wont be a book about it ( or released before 343's game comes out )

  • 05.05.2011 1:32 PM PDT

Please, no hurt! Me like Elites. Brutes stinky bad bad. Me stay here, make sure no Brutes come behind mighty Arbiter. Heh, heh... Eh?

a game about onyx would be awesome.

  • 05.05.2011 1:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lynk120
a game about onyx would be awesome.

Yeah it would, but we were talking about a direct sequel to onyx being written and the made into a game by 343 within maybe a year of each other, it's unlikely that it would happen

  • 05.06.2011 8:07 AM PDT

My name is Legion, for we are many.

I enjoyed them all but I liked the ones that heavily featured the Jackals as characters.

  • 05.28.2011 10:48 PM PDT

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I loved them! The book I devoured was Halo Cryptum! I couldn't stop reading it except for a few pauses here and then because I was so excited about reading it I had to get up.

  • 05.28.2011 10:52 PM PDT
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I have yet to read cryptum !

  • 05.29.2011 9:22 AM PDT

I loved the books! I've read most of them, but I haven't gotten to the short stories yet. I love all Eric Nylund's work, but my favorite by far was "The Fall of Reach".

I don't have a favorite Spartan other than Masterchief, and I don't really remember them anyways since I haven't read The Fall of Reach in like 8 years.

My favorite scene was at the very end of The Fall of Reach where Cortana hears Masterchief mention something about deja-vu and pieces together from it that there's something important at a certain place in space, thus leading to the unexpected jump to the first ring at the beginning of Halo. I like how the most unremarkable little comment ends up practically saving the universe from destruction. I also like some of the training missions the Spartans did when they were kids.

After reading The Fall of Reach, I remember when I was at a friend's place, halfway through Halo 2 for the first time, telling him how much I liked the realism they put in the plot and how believable it is. Then less than a minute later, a giant talking plant pops up out of the ground and has this big dialog. I was thinking, "WTF!" I feel like Eric Nylund's take on the Halo stories is the most believable, and that's one of the reasons I like his writing so much.

  • 07.25.2011 12:09 PM PDT

Jesus loves you! But I think you're a -blam!-

Best books in the universe. Aside from The Bible.

  • 07.27.2011 4:16 PM PDT

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