gamertag : firedune22
avid forger, love vehicle gameplay
Just about all of the books are well-written, and are woth just as much as books to any Sci-fi as to any Halo fan. If you want to learn some things you never knew about the campaign before, read The Flood. It's based on the original Halo game, yet reveals some things you would have never known about the survivors of the POA if you just played the game, like the story of Alpha Base. If you're interested in stand-alone stories and don't want to get too confised about the spartans in general, read Ghosts of Onyx. Most will probably say hat you need to read the Fall of Reach, but it's not absolutely neccesary. Cryptum was by far my favorite novel, up there in therms of having an entertaining and intersting story line with The Flood and Ghosts of Onyx.
I [u]highly[/i] suggest that you read the Halo 3 terminals before you read crytum and if you read them once, read them again. Even though Cryptum ends on a cliffhangar, it has a satisfactory ending and seems like a comepletly different story than that in Halo in general.