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Summary: 2 Tentacles Up!
Review: Halo: The Fall of Reach is an excellent novel! I was very skeptical when I first read it, but I delved into it nonetheless because of how much I have followed the Halo game and the career of its developers, Bungie. This novel surprised me becuase I was not expecting it to be very in depth. I expected it to be too much like playing a video game and not like reading an actualy story with depth. This review does not allow me enough room to say good things about this book and the good job Eric Nylund did! Cheers!
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Summary: Halo The Fall Of Reach , A MUST FOR HALO PLAYERS !
Review: Hello All,I must say in advance that I am a complete Halo fan to the core, but I'm reading this book without bias or prejudice. This book completely describes the making, crafting etc. of Master chief. All the facets of his history will be unfold. A six year old boy grows up to be the meanest baddest [butt]-kicking armored soldier. His training as well as his personal growth and emotional sides are unfolding. Also the complete story about the planet Reach and the evolvement of the aliens known as the covenant will be explained.
More info on their background will be told in Halo 2! The book is written deep, thorough and drags you trough the storyline. I really think this book should make a blockbuster movie, produced by Steven Spielberg... I must thank : Bungie , for creating the best game and story in my life.
Microsoft, for creating a machine (xbox) that makes all this possible. and last but no least : Eric Nylund, for creating this incredible history book about The Fall Of Reach. GreetzP>Cat142.
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Summary: great sci fi
Review: i thought that this was a great book. the good thing about this is that it is a prequal to the game. the battles are great- especially at the end. this is a must read for anyone who likes sciece fiction
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Summary: Incredible! A Must Read For Any HALO Players!!!
Review: Any of you that have played Halo need to read this book. You will understand sooooo much more. For those that haven't heard of it, it is a prequel to Halo on the XBox. The background of the Master Chief is explained and explored. You learn all about the Spartans, a group of elite, enhanced, and effective group of soldiers, lead by our own Master Chief. You also learn some interesting details about the Covenant. There are details about the background of Cortana, the female AI that's in your ear the whole game. Also you'll learn all about Mjolnir, the armor that keeps your hide intact. As well as understanding the connection between the Chief and Captain Keyes. Additionally, the previews for HALO 2 have even more meaning now. So go meet John, Spartan 117, the Master Chief; and learn the whole story of HALO. You gotta check out this book!
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Summary: Backstory for HALO
Review: This thing is cool it shows Master Chief's (John 117) entire back round from were he was slected to be a Spartin 2 to were the game takes up.
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Summary: Good Story and Drop off point
Review: This book does an excelent job on describing the master cheifs history before he arrived on halo. It also helps the player of the game of halo have some background information on the covenant.
This was an excelent book.
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Summary: A great success in bringing Halo to life
Review: I found out about this book after playing the game that it is based on. Anyone who has played Halo can vouch for the fact that once you get a taste of Halo, you can't possibly get enough. So I brought this book home expecting it to just help satiate my thirst for the Halo universe. What I got was a near full-immersion. I felt like I was on the battlefront alongside the human defenders. If you know the game, this book will provide a riveting experience that's hard to find.
Still, this book wasn't without its flaws. I noticed several continuity flaws (not between the book and the game, those would be forgiveable). For example, a certain character, within the span of 5 pages, goes from beng female to male and back to female again. I dont know about other readers, but errors like this always annoy me. The book also feels like it was cut short, with little of the book actually detailing the fall of Reach. Yet even in light of the bad things, I recommend this book to any fan of the game. It will make you see the game in a light you never would have before...
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Summary: A great story in a passable book
Review: Halo: Fall of Reach is an interesting quandary. On one hand, the book really isn't terribly well written. Better than most of the stuff you'd pull off the romance novel aisle, for sure, but Heinlein and Ellison it's not. On the other hand, if you've played the game and found the storyline intriguing, this is definitely required reading. The book really gives a sense of scope to the universe of Halo and the Human's struggle against the Covenant. Sure, in the game you're hopelessly outnumbered by beings with superior technology on their home turf, but you never really get the sense of epic struggle for survival that is imparted by the book. That's just how the narrative format of a game works, though. If you are put into an unwinnable situation, the experience probably wouldn't be very satisfying. A novel, especially a prequel to a story ending with a victory of sorts, isn't bound to that restriction. The humans lose. Often. And it's OK, even nice to see because it gives everything you do in the game more relevance. As far as the writing goes... it's just OK. It does a good job of keeping you into the story, but has its annoying parts too. The military terminology and abbreviations are thrown about pretty often, so if you're not familiar with them, they break up the flow of the reading as you try to reverse engineer the acronyms. Also, the evolution of the Chief and the Spartans seems contrived. In every chapter involving the Spartans, I thought "hmmm, what valuable lesson will they learn today?" The character development doesn't bloom like a flower; it's stacked like blocks. Finally, like many sci-fi or fantasy authors, Nylund uses a few terms over and over again to the point of distraction. (Similar to the way J.K. Rowling's characters' faces are always being drained of color or Simon Green's characters' swords are moving in swift brutal arcs) Trust me, after this book you've never want to read the phrase "motes of light" ever again. I would recommend this book to two groups of people. First is anyone who has played the game and want to know more about the Halo universe. Second, I would recommend it to anyone who is planning on getting an XBox for christmas this year. Read the book, then play the game. I think you'll find that it makes the experience all the more rich and cohesive. This book gets 4 stars; five for the story and three for the writing.
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Summary: Mission: Write Halo Prequel Status: Complete
Review: This book does justice to, "the" best first person shooter game, of all time. Powerful, gripping, and it will give you more reasons to shred those covenant aliens. The first 10 pages will pull you into the battlefield right off the bat, the rest... is gold. Know why Master Chief is the only spartan left (or is he?), where Cortana originated, her creator - creator of the Spartan IIs program, who the SPARTANs were, where the covenant are from and how Earth is in peril, and.. . well, you'll find out. Oh, by the way, I am "the" Master Chief, and to he who gave this book 1 star, I'll be seeing you online.
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Summary: Halo: The Fall of Reach was simply "awesome."
Review: Sure, I played the game for the XBox, but I wanted more. And Halo: The Fall of Reach was just what the doctor ordered. No, this isn't a mindless video game based novel, this is actually a PREQUEL to the smash hit video game (which was indeed an epic one at that.) All original story, etc. The writer did an awesome job on this one. I can't give him enough credit: Eric Nylund is a genius. Page by page, this book is written very realistically in great detail just like Heinland's Starship Troopers, where often he'd show off his actual knowledge of science in great detail. Amazing stuff. I guess going indepth on the story would waste your time since you can read a brief synopsis at the top of the page, but I just want to say I enjoyed this book from start to finish. It drops you off right where the video game starts. My dad's been reading science fiction novels since he was a kid -- he picked up the book and couldn't put it down. Really goes to show you that this a book for all ages. Just because it has video game tie-ins doesn't necessarily count it out or play it off as a "kiddie" novel. I'd suggest this book to anybody, especially since you need no knowledge of the game to get into it. Hope he makes the sequel! Pick this one up!
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