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Subject: Halo Books
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Well, I have read the first two and am on the third, Halo: First Strike which I will complete this sumemr on those long boring days...

  • 05.26.2004 5:40 AM PDT
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He was naturally born.

As for how many people read them.......I stop reading them a long time ago. Actually I have only read each of them maybe once. However. I have lived each of them at least 8 times each, excluding the Flood which has been maybe 4 times.

  • 05.26.2004 5:54 AM PDT

John was natural born, not a tube baby. He was replaced by a flash clone when the Navy stole him away, but the Master Chief is the original, natural-born John. He was just augmented several times.

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  • 05.26.2004 6:09 AM PDT
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If his flash clone hasnt died yet, which is says in the books he probably has by now because fo the degeneration, that woudl be cool for the Master Chief to see him in halo 2 or sand over his grave wtih his name marked on the tombstone. That would be cool...

  • 05.26.2004 6:12 AM PDT
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I believe in either The Fall of Reach or The Flood it says that his home world was destroyed long ago by the Covenant.

  • 05.26.2004 7:40 AM PDT
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Elysium city, on Reach.......the Playground, King of the Hill.........Halsey, Keyes (a Jr. liutenant then, right?) and the ancient Quarter.........awwww yee-uh. The Nostalgia's KILLING me.

  • 05.26.2004 7:46 AM PDT
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The Fall of Reach was pure GENIUS - Nylund really delivered, and set the standard for the books to come. BEST novel, in my opinion.

The Flood, which i'm actually reading again, for the third time, for NO reason, is actually kind of...redundant. And dumb. I HATE how Dietz put in quotes for the MC - he's more the strong, reserved, silent type to me, but Dietz turns him into a witty bad-pun-delivering Shwarzenegger character, and it's REALLY annoying. "Let of some STEAM, Bennet..." (seen Commando?) ALSO, how the dropships miraculously can caryy 30 PASSENGERS instead of the typical 10-15. It's STUPID. AND he describes the Shotgun as being a 12-guage - it's really an 8. (Play on campaign, pump a round into an enemy, reload, and pause the game - the flap you feed rounds into has a loop that looks pinched in the middle, with a dot to resemble the connection in the midsection, the the word "guage" beneath it.) Also, how the Chief goes through ALL of 343GS and the Library with his ASSAULT RIFLE. YAH FRELLING RIGHT!!! HE USES HIS SHOTGUN LIKE, 3 TIMES!!! IT"S STOOOPID!!! *ahem* ok, i'm done. It's really cool how he tells of the OTHER marines, Even the Covenant (check THIS out) and how exactly the Flood take over Jenkins and Keyes.

First Strike was pretty OK, but the Chief's in space like, THE WHOLE TIME. BUT we read what became of the rest of the SPARTANs, and also of my beloved Linda returning...

So yah. Good stuff.

[Edited on 5/26/2004 7:56:28 AM]

  • 05.26.2004 7:51 AM PDT
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I was just wondering how many people out there actually read these things. I mean they are really well written. Just wanted to start a thread to see if anyone had questions or opinions about them. Also I was wondering....I just re read F.O.R. again, and I didnt really understand if John was natural born or if he was a tube baby. Can anyone help?

  • 05.26.2004 5:31 AM PDT
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i've read the books, they're all good but the first is the best and the flood is the worst. truely amazing books, i've made them my gospel/holy books

  • 05.26.2004 10:56 AM PDT
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there are halo BOOKS?lol and ppl read them hahaha

  • 07.08.2004 10:54 AM PDT
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place name here shut the hell up and go away you have no life if you are makin fun of there being halo books. If you want a book to make fun of pick on "to kill a mocking bird".

Topic creator you stole my topic!

  • 07.08.2004 11:09 AM PDT