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Posted by: borrowedchief
Oh, I am still pretty much at the beginning. The main character in just entering some sort of (war?) tomb, following some pebbles.
It just seems very linear, but now that you guys mention it, maybe part of the issue is the combo of first person storytelling, and a bunch of Forerunner crap I really don't understand!
OK, I'll stick with it =)
I've also found a lot of hard-sci-fi authors to be relatively difficult to understand. Larry Niven's Ringworld was a lot like Cryptum in my eyes. Filled with much more advanced writing and terminology then your average book, like the other Halo stories are.
Combined with the 1st person viewpoint, and you need to seriously change your mindset going in.
But to say that he's not comfortable with the subject matter/genre, you must not know much about him.
He's one of the most renowned sci-fi authors in history, up there with Ray Bradbury, (who he was friends with) Larry Niven and a plethora of others. But again, he writes on a much more classical level of sci-fi (he's in his 70's I think, so he's been around).
I recommend continuing with the story. Contrary to what others say, he is a great writer of scenery, you just have to pay attention (and maybe have a dictionary while you're at it).
And the two action scenes in the book, especially the longer, second one, actually found my heart beating faster. I seriously thought I watched a movie.
[Edited on 06.30.2011 7:06 PM PDT]