Halo: The Novel

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Halo: The Novel

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I just got on the bungie site and noticed that another installment of the novel is coming out. I really want to start reading more often, to get my mind off of things and I think that the novel will be a good place to start. I've heard that the books are 100 times better than the game. So I was wondering, if anyone with experience knows if the books are read-able from the latest book, or if I should start from the first book and work my way up. I know the storyline from the game, but nothing further than that.
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the first three you need to read in order the fourth one is a prologue to the whole series and im not aware of any other books please correct me if im wrong
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On the site it says that the one coming out is the 6th book.
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There's 6:

Fall of Reach
The Flood
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
Contact Harvest
Cole Protocol (the new one)

If you enjoyed the games story, then I guess you can enjoy the books fairly well. I've read First Strike and Fall of Reach. They weren't bad.
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I still have not yet finished Contact Harvest. I am by no means a slow reader, I've just had little to no time that coincided with caring enough to be able to read it all.
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Ghosts of Onyx bored me. I never finished it.
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Post by ScottyGEE »

The first 3 were good. Added new elements, had lots of intereting action. I enjoyed reading them. I thought I wouldn't because its a game spinoff book...

Contact harvest on the other hand did not really interest me too much. It had some insightful information (most notably the reason the whole war started, I didn't know it until then...). I would have thought a story following the caraazy Halo black guy with his one liners would make it a funny yet entertaining read...This book occurs that, so he' boring ;p

Kinda interested in this book, I'll wait for opinions. But if its not available in Australia (like ghosts of onyx), then I'm not gonna buy.

If you are wanting chonological order. I believe its: Contact harvest, fall of reach, the flood, First strike (dunno where ghosts goes ;p)
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I've read all of them except for Ghosts of Onyx. Contact: Harvest was really good, (Scotty is all wrong >_>) it made me go "OHSHI-" a couple times from some of the things that happen that have an impact later on. They're all good if you're interested in the story of Halo, or at least, all of them that I've read. I hear Ghosts is good, though.
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Kirk wrote:Ghosts of Onyx bored me. I never finished it.
The ending is pretty good. You should skip to the the last few chapters or something.
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Kirk wrote:Ghosts of Onyx bored me.
yeah me too only i finished the entire series excluding the new one cause it didnt come out yet i dont thinks
but i think you should start from the beginning. it would be better and its a way to pass time. right now im working on the tom clancy books. and no im no book worm just i dont wanna sit around at home and do nothing
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Post by Tural »

GoO is the best.

First and third need to be read.
GoO is important as well.
CH isn't necessary, but it is good.
ScottyGEE wrote:If you are wanting chonological order. I believe its: Contact harvest, fall of reach, the flood, First strike (dunno where ghosts goes ;p)
GoO takes place during Halo 1-3 (In and around 2552).
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my favorite was the flood...but i think they are all interesting
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Ok, I'm heading out to my borders right now. Have about a 100$ worth of gift cards for there so I guess I'll get the first book. See how it is.
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i thought i heard a rumor that the halo movie is going to be on the books and not the games because of the whole movies based on games are carp gig
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Post by Tural »

Why are you always late and posting completely irrelevant information? The movie isn't even in production right now, and in addition there is no information about it, so your rumors are completely useless. :roll:
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whoops sorry

http://halo.moviechronicles.com/?rd=1

i just found out it was a possiable screenplay
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My favorite (from first to least favorite) Halo novels:

Ghosts of Onyx
First Strike
Fall of Reach
Contact Harvest
The Flood.

They're all good, but the Flood's writing was just blander than the others, and it suffered. It's still good, as it explains a lot not explained in the game.

And in Chronological order, the books are:

Fall of Reach, the Flood, First Strike,
Contact Harvest,
G h o s t s o f O n y x.

This is all on one line. I didn't do line breaks for no reason. Ghosts of Onyx starts a third of the way through Fall of Reach and ends a bit after First Strike. Contact Harvest starts halfway through Fall of Reach and still ends halfway through Fall of Reach.
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