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Posted by: Quozo
Well, Im all for a philosophical book, but this is Halo. Where was the action?
I stopped reading right there. Action must never take precedence over story. My main problem with the Nylund books was the over emphasis on action.
And Traviss does character studies primarily. Obviously, you haven't read her books before so this may have come as a surprise in a series that has been thus far mainly event driven. Essentially, she takes characters and does a journalistic psycho-analysis, and puts that into a story. That's what she did with Gears, SW: RC and the Wess'Har Wars. It was obvious that's what she was going to do here. The point of the arguments was to develope the characters in a way that will lead into further plot points, and to make the characters actually human in a completely character driven story, a concept that has been almost foreign to Halo so far.
Really the only difference between the previous Halo books and Glasslands is that Glasslands put emphasis on characters and the previous ones put emphasis on long term events or action. I prefer characters over action, so I liked Glasslands. Odds are, you went in not knowing what to expect so just assumed you'd be getting the usual Halo style, so feel like they dropped the ball when they went at it with a different approach.
343i has been changing up the formula; you must have noticed that they're in the buisness of more character-crentric stories by now.
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Posted by: grey101
Greg Bear is doing good with the forerunners though he is breaking new ground. Even somebody spatial as me has trouble envisioning some of the concepts he introduces. Cryptum should have came with an art booklet or something.
Something like Star Wars' Incredible Cross Sections?
Hell yeah. Hopefully the art booklet would have some hard calcs on the Forerunner weaponry, and said calcs would be huge. The rabid Trekkies and Warsies would probably shoot fire out of their eyeballs upon reading that.
You're predilection for the Forerunners' OPness is turning into an unhealthy obession. I almost never see you write a single post without bringing up the Forerunners and how they'd whoop Wars' and Trek's asses (which, in the case of Trek, is false all on the account of one letter: Q). Seriously, it's really getting annoying, and I get the impression the only reason you're reading the Forerunner saga is for the reason of proving to your friends that the Halo universe is amongst the most OP'ed in sci-fi. It's even gone as far as appearing as if it's not the Forerunners, it's not worth your time.
Now, whatever floats your boat, I'm not one to judge your reasoning for delving into Halo lore, but can the Forerunner weapons discussion be reserved for a discussion on Forerunner weapons?
[Edited on 12.07.2011 6:05 PM PST]