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Subject: Which is the best Halo book?

And the Hegemon

I've read Contact Harvest, Chronicles I and about to start chronicles II. People keep saying Fall of Reach is one of the best and I would just like to know if any of you have read them and if they are any good

  • 05.09.2012 8:50 AM PDT

-Watertribe-

All of them are good, except the forerunner trilogy.

  • 05.09.2012 9:43 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Cryptum. I simply adore Bear's writing style in that book, his language seems to have a very Homeric-style edge to it at times; his build-up of the characters was very well executed and I felt very involved in the story.

The way he described the battle of the Capitol was masterful:
I flash on brief moments of breathtaking, awful splendor, sharpened by terror: the rapid approach of Halo's inner landscape, our first close-up glimpse of thin layers of clouds, rivers, mountains, desert, vast stretches of green, then thousands of kilometers of engraved silver-blue, naked foundation material interrupted by towering, four-pronged power stations - all unadorned by hard-light decor.

...

Then - the unexpected. While the enormous yet ephemeral band of Halo slowly disappeared into the violet-black maw at the center of the portal, somthing brilliant white pushed through from the other side.

...

The fortress's commanders and ancillas must have known they were dooming themselves as well as the Halo. The installation began a spectacular disintegrative sequence. The visible half of the ring bent in opposite directions, then shattered into five great arcs. We passed near the largest of these segments, perhaps a hundred kilometers from the inner-surface. Released from the rotational integrity of the full ring, the segment moved outward, given an additional outward twist by the asymmetric breakup. One end swept towards us like a great swinging blade.

...

Kilometer-wide swaths of forest waved like flags in a slow wind, shivered off a dust of trees - and broke apart into chunks. In the increasing violence, the surface released a storm of boulders, followed by immense cross-sections of sedimentary layers, and finally, entire mountains still capped with snow. Our doom seemed inevitable. Either we would be struck by the nearest rim wall or by the great clods and silvers of material spilling over - or we would be caught up in flying volumes of ocean, now, in the shadow of the portal, freezing into spectacular ice sculptures, flying bergs and snow. I sat within the dust mote of our craft, incapable of speech. I had never witnessed anything so utterly awesome - not even the destruction of the San'Shyuum world.


I eagerly await the third book.

Posted by: Avatar Korra
All of them are good, except the forerunner trilogy.


So The Flood > Cryptum? trololololololol

[Edited on 05.09.2012 9:58 AM PDT]

  • 05.09.2012 9:56 AM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Hard tie between:

Fall of Reach
Ghosts of Onyx
Evolutions
Cryptum

Can't say anything about Glasslands or Primordium, as I haven't read them.

  • 05.09.2012 10:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: Avatar Korra
All of them are good, except the forerunner trilogy.


And Glasslands.

  • 05.09.2012 10:43 AM PDT

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." -Johnny Cash

In my opinion, Contact Harvest is the best Halo book.

  • 05.09.2012 11:37 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.


Posted by: OMARRCHR
In my opinion, Contact Harvest is the best Halo book.


It's notoriously underrated. I think that Joe Staten did a stellar job with the characters - the relationships between Lighter Than Some & Dadab and Sig & Mack got me more emotionally invested than I was with any character in the games (except maybe Thel in Halo 2 and Cortana in Halo 3).

The best scene had to be when the Tiara is crumbling and Sif asks Loki to tell Mack, "it's Shakespeare, darlin'". I thought that seeing their relationship come full-circle from the start of the book was pulled off extremely well.

  • 05.09.2012 11:56 AM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

For some reason, I really liked The Cole Protocol. That has to be my favorite with Fall of Reach and Ghosts of Onyx as a close second.

I should mention the Mona Lisa from Evolutions too. Great, great short story. My favorite in the book.

  • 05.09.2012 1:11 PM PDT

Cryptum was my favorite.

  • 05.09.2012 1:54 PM PDT
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Reach beats GoW!
Reach beats CoD!!
Reach beats everything!!!

I've found cryptum to be the best one, not just in style but in the scope the book takes on. It's awe-inspiring in a sense the others can't seem to match. I, for one, found the first 3, specially The Flood to be a little bit tiresome with so much combat, but its visuals and descriptons are really good... again, though, not near the gripping story found in Cryptum.

I have yet to read the next one in the series, but the premise looks very interesting.

  • 05.09.2012 1:57 PM PDT

Hanger one I just shredded with the SMGs until ammo was out and I just threw 'nades like a boss while BRing.

My experience playing Cairo Station on Legendary

I have read Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, and Ghosts of Onyx. I don't think that I can bring myself to pic a favorite. They're all so good and worth reading!

  • 05.09.2012 2:44 PM PDT