[GanoesParan00]

Anyone here to root for the Halo books?

[Dr Trouble]

Stay away from them. Absolute shit.

If I had a time machine, I would go back. Where's my dalorian?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Never read the, bet any book based on a video game can't be good. If the author was worth anythin, he'd have his own ideas.

[paladin]

videogame books suck.

but.... the doom books that came out about a decade+ ago were fun.

[GanoesParan00]

lol, oh you guys are AWESOME!!. the halo books were NOT based on the game. bungie just stole the idea and made the game. there are four books in which only one book was made into a game (book 2, the Flood, as Halo combat evolved.) the author made the books all by him self with no reference to the games halo and halo 2.

by the way, in the halo books there was only 1 halo. not two halos like in the games. and there were not only 1 spartan (master Chief) oh no, there were at least 50-100 spartans and in the latest book (Ghost of onyx), there were spartans in the thousands. so think again guys.

[paladin]

so it was stolen and called halo and there was no copyright infringement war?

[GanoesParan00]

How on Earth am I suppose to know. . . . Wait a moment. . . the second book was written by a different author. o.k.

anyways book 1 (fall of REach) was about MC when he was a boy and the Spartan II program. book 2 (The FLOOD!!) was all about halo. book 3 (First Strike) was right after halo and MC went to Reach, did some stuff, then went to a Gigantic Covenant fleet and destroyed all the ships (covie ships around 2,000+). Book 4 (Ghosts of Onyx) was about the Spartan III program and that the planet "Onyx" is actually a big ball of metal that is suppose to protect the forunners (peeps who built the halo rings in the first place) when Halo activates (there are 8 halos, when activated they combine in like a big ball of 8 rings and destroys all sentinent life in the universe from the parasite.)

Kinda hard to really write what the books are about this way but go to a library or B&N and borrow/buy The Fall Of Reach and see how it is.

[Dolorous Menhir]

I thought you were talking about Ringworld by Larry Niven.

You know, the series they stole the idea from.

[GanoesParan00]

nope sorry. did you know that LOTR stole its plot and everything almost from a German film the neitferin or something like that?

[Dr Trouble]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Halo books are a prequel to the Halo games. Commissioned and owned by Bungie. http://en.wikipedia....lo_%28series%29

Its amazing what happens when you learn how to read.

[stone monkey]

Yeah, they're licensed from Bungie who are owned by [linet]the incarnation of all evil[/linet] Microsoft.

Thety're a bit iffy in the writing stakes. But I suspect that might be because the authors concerned probably turned them out in a week or so, but they occupied an hour or two each of my time, rather harmlessly...And at least I didn't have to actually pay for the privilege of reading them.

ps Tolkien stole from everywhere. That was part of the point for him. Although, given his nature, I would suspect he stole from the sources your film was based on; for example - Thorin Oakenshield's formal boast before the The Battle of the Five Armies, in The Hobbit, is a word-for-word quote from one of the Icelandic Eddas.

[GanoesParan00]

Ok thank you both but if you actually read all the books and compare to Halo, they are simmilier yet almost entirely different

[The .303 bookworm]

Read them, all the Nylund books (That is, all but "The Flood") are pretty good (considering that they're a VG based).

[GanoesParan00]

yeah "The Flood" has a different feel about it and i think that is practicaly the only true(?) game based book in the halo series. books 3 & 4 didn't have a single part mentioned in the video games. they parted right after the first halo went Boom. (Book 3 starts right after the explosion and from there the books and the game series part differnt ways.)