Halo Novel Discussions Wanted!

[CHa0s]

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[TwinJedi]

I just picked these up so I will start on them pretty soon.

[SquidgeyFlint (admin)]

Frakin' awesome!
Where are these tags? Trying to figure it out. Do you have to type in (like the example you gave) "spoiler" or is there a tag button?

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[SquidgeyFlint (admin)]

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You know you want to...

Rosebud was his sleigh.

The toothfairy is really your parents..

Santa Claus isn't real either. Also your parents...

The easter bunny? Let's just say that you folks have a thing about playing tricks on kids....

[TC Mooch]

SqidgeyFlint, damn you!!!!

Damns you to hellz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GravHammerman]

Test.

Vader is Luke's father.

Sqidgey is a very Weiss man.

Luke kissed his own sister. Eewww!

This could be fun!

[TwinJedi]

I thought both of the new books were great. They got me excited for H4 and looking forward to book 3, which I think is due out after H4 hits.

[Darth_Tabasco]

...Ok guys, I'm an avid reader and am hesitant to admit that I've only read two Halo books, Cole Protocol and I can't find the other in my library, don't remember what it was. I think it's the one when John is first training to be a spartan. Anyway, I would read more but I don't know where to start, which book to get first, any suggestions?

The other book you mention is The Fall of Reach. The other two books by Eric Nylund would be good reads as well: First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx.

I have not tried any of the other Forerunner books, but I might in preparation for Halo 4.

[CyberKnight (mod)]

I want to get the paperbacks eventually, but I just finished listening to the audiobooks of the Forerunner series. Primordium was a treat, though, because

it was read by Tim Dadabo, the voice of 343 Guilty Spark, and at the end they slowly morph his "normal" reading voice into Guilty Spark's.

The thing that really took me aback was having to re-write my mental timeline. I saw the Forerunners as this ancient, parent race that no one really knew anything about, and only called them "forerunners" because all we knew was that they came before. But Forerunners, Humans, and Shan 'Shyuum were contemporaries? And the Forerunners actually called themselves "forerunners"? It was so different from what I had assumed before. (And in Halo CE, Guilty Spark implies that Forerunners were descended from the humans, but Cryptum clearly establishes Forerunners and humans as two independent races.)

The whole origin of the Flood was different, too. Finding out that

humans essentially caused the Flood to be released in our galaxy almost felt like a stab in the back, too -- instead of being a mysterious, unknowable enemy that was accidentally released because of the Covenant's blindness to what they were doing, they were instead something we humans brought upon ourselves and the whole galaxy. The Forerunners died because of us; maybe humans deserved to be wiped out by the Covenant.

[CHa0s]

Currently reading First Strike by Eric Nylund. I've read his stuff before and liked it, but for some reason this is a struggle. Characters are starting to trade quips, similar to what we find in game, and that's entertaining. I don't know, maybe it'll start to grow on me...