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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: grey101
Posted by: slayerofall442
YES! I have every book except for Contact Harvest and The new Forerunner Series book. They are excellent!
It is obvious that people that say cryptum is "bad" aren't deep into halo lore.
Or read the books because of the action...
I think I liked Cryptum the best because the Author was competent enough to create an engaging story without having to resort to an action sequence every other chapter. Not to say Eric Nylund isn't a good writer, but he's a military sci-fi/war author; Greg Bear, Karren Traviss and (apparently) Joe Staten can very effectively work in the character field and make it interesting.
Take Human Weakness for example. It had no action scenes at all, but was easily one of the best. It was intellectually stimulating, similar to Cryptum.
I'm beginning to get the feeling a lot of the people sub conscioussly are hooked to some of the other, more war oriented books because of the descriptive action sequences. Like that's what makes it interesting for them while the additions to Halo lore are secondary. Sure, they say each book was a great addition to the lore, and imply thats why they liked it, but what can you say about a battle scene anyway?
Action scenes in these books are usually like smoking pot; you get an adreniline rush (or high) for the length of the scene, then you forget about them from a plot stand point other then "this happened." Then people get addicted to them and love those books, but loathe the other, less action-y books for their lack of weed (or action). And no matter what they say, that's the reason they come back for more. Really the only action scene that needed to have a whole chapter dedicated to it like a lot of these scenes do, was the Keyes loop, because specifically what Keyes did and how he did it is what bought him a ticket on the PoA.
It actually mattered to the story.
Not to say descriptive battles are bad, but they're overused. TFoR is a great example, and I'm starting to find it to be the worst out of the book series. I could re-read Contact Harvest or Cryptum or First Strike--the more story driven ones--a thousand times, but I can't seem to re-read TFoR more then once or twice.Ever one of them (comicks included) are extremly good exept for the flood that was a Halo CE rip off with so much actiont that got boring on the 80th page and only the ODST subplot was good