But that curiousity was answered with great satisfaction. The Forerunners are an awesome civilizition/species, I wish our world was a bit more Forerunner-ish lol. In the digital age people who buy books are buying them to put on their bookshelf. I actually own the original trilogy of Halo books.

Additional plot notes below: This isn't a book that you can casually just pick up and get into, and expect to know everything about it, even if you're a hardcore science fiction fan. I waited until the softcover version came out and started reading it. January 3rd 2012 Series: The Foreworld Saga (Book 2). The Librarian essentially manipulated the the meeting in order to locate, and free her husband the Didact, from his Cryptum and thousand year exile. I have spent 2 days reading this book and the edges are already losing their black ink. No Game No Lif... Lucas Thiago Furukawa. I think the concept of the book is pretty cool (as a Halo fan) but it took way too long to get where it needed to be. Interesting planet and likable cast of characters. I was a bit curious about the story because it is far away from the Halo universe we know of. It’s October, which means it’s the perfect time to scare yourself with a truly unsettling book. And like I am used to, Amazon delivered it fast and in good state. The characters aren't interesting. Through 5 moves.

This trade paperback edition of Halo: Silentium features an epilogue written by Greg and Erik Bear, appearing for the first time in print. Before you even begin to start on Primordium there’s a question you need to ask yourself. I would recommend it only if you've already read the first one Halo: Cryptum. I do not recommend this one at all. No protective coating or covering at all. Look I'm starting to dream again! I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone unless you're a super die-hard Halo geek.

At the risk of being redundant, it was absolutely terrible.

I was completely lost towards the end of the book trying to constantly visualize the. They are still in better condition than this sad pitiful excuse of a printed book I started reading 2 days ago. Cryptum’s sterile yet dusty tale of treasure hunting and tragedy was interesting, but not gripping; it was high adventure, but not dangerous.

I had some momentum going into this book after reading Crytum. Its printed on the cheapest paper I have seen. Just getting the main character to plot points so that they have something to talk about for a twenty pages or so. The book has not the same dimension than the others (Ghosts of Onyx, ...) but hey that is not a problem. The story is awesome and it reads really well, great writing. There's a lot of good stuff here about the corruption of Forerunner tech, but the book is frustrating at times because of the lack of interesting drama. That and explaining that they don't really know what they're doing or where they are going. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Book Two in the bestselling Forerunner Saga based on the hit Xbox game. Halo literature has matured and it works phenomenally well. I went mad. This would have been a 3 star review for the inventive imagery, concepts and ending.

Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas... All images & text are, of course, copyright and all rights reserved; Well, taking over two months to finish this book should say enough about how much of a slog it was to get through. But it lacked the same impetus that the first story had. Now ALL the Halo novels are printed like this and cost between 10 and 16 bucks?! Since then, I’ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies—a greater reach than any human before me.

“When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.”, “It is no crime. may be downloaded and viewed for personal use only. Looking forward to the next two parts because that universe is so huge and well designed that I still need to discover a lot. Nevertheless I'm still excited for the third and final one coming out this march! After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Cryptum’s sterile yet dusty tale of treasure hunting and tragedy was interesting, but not gripping; it was high adventure, but not dangerous. That and explaining that they don't really know what they're doing or where they are going.

However I still plan on reading the third book of the forerunner saga. Please try again. The first in a trilogy, set hundreds of thousands of years before the events of the original “Halo” video game, “Cryptum” digs DEEP into the lore of the Forerunners, the Flood, and the origin of the Halo rings…and it does all of that without ever once even coming close to holding the reader’s hand. The book tells the tale of Chakas, one for the two humans from the first Forerunner saga book. The last 75 or so pages are the meat of the book and everything else is filler. I had some momentum going into this book after reading Crytum. Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time—to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe. Please choose a different delivery location. He lands on a Halo and spends the rest of the book walking around following a lady, who is nuts, and an old man. It's not as exciting of a narrative as Cryptum and could have been vastly better if we had a bit more sustenance to the story during the middle, but the ending has some good revelations into the nature of the Halo Rings and the Flood. I have never played the game, nor read any of the books. Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2018. I went mad. :). That question is “Have I read Halo: Cryptum?” If your answer is no, then go read it.

What a way to save the printed medium. Halo: Silentium: Book Three of the Forerunner Saga (10), Halo: Glasslands: Book One of the Kilo-Five Trilogy (11). Something went wrong. 8,0. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Otherwise read the Wiki. Even if you are new to 'Halo' you can read this because the red line through the Halo universe is pretty simple in fact (and this book is in the beginning). It's not as exciting of a narrative, Overall a much slower paced book then Halo: Cryptum, but the pacing is appropriate for the story. No lover ever felt my attentions so fiercely.”.

I found the last one entirely boring, from what I remember, but for some reason I picked up the second book over a year later. It had the intensity, the drama, the ability to sway your sympathies from one species to another simply by change of perspective, all the power of a well-written book but in the end i was disappointed.

To say that his book was the disappointing sequel to a badly ended previous work would be giving it a great deal of credit. Tor Books; Book Club Edition (January 1, 2011). I'd say a majority of the book is them walking and looking for food and describing how hard that is. Unlike most of the other Halo books I've read, this story is much more slow paced and technical. This book introduces the characters central to the continuing plot of Halo - the Forerunner race, and the Precursor race. At the end, it gets interesting. They became my only friends.

It is still Halo and many things are related to the terminals in Halo 3. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. I get that these are supposed to be connected to the story arc of Halo 4 but there is some incongruity about the Bornstellar/Didacts' motives that don't gel as far as I could tell.

I was deeply unimpressed by this work and the fact that the last 20-60 pages were actually descent does nothing to redeem the work as a whole. This is a combined review of all three of Greg Bear's. Halo: Primordium Greg Bear. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 17, 2013. The book tells the tale of Chakas, one for the two humans from the first Forerunner saga book.

Enjoyable and fast-to-read books for me. The characters aren't interesting.

(Which is interesting thematically, if you think about it, as they are the ones with inborn (or implanted) directional prodding from an outside entity.) There was no real beginning, middle, and end, and the motivations for conflict were not present. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. A huge letdown for a character that was so dynamic in the first book. I served my enemies. Die-hard Halo fans will definitely love discovering more about The Flood, the Precursor and what Chakas ultimately becomes. It’s the point where the reader can more or l, Typically, when one is reading a series of sci-fi or fantasy novels, there comes a point – usually after the end of the first book, MAYBE a bit into the second book – when the reader will feel totally “at home” within the trilogy – that is to say, they’ll have developed a solid grasp of the world and characters, and can progress into the ongoing story without feeling like they’re still having to learn the complicated ins and outs of the basic mythos.

I heard a lot of books these days are being vomited out like this to save to a few cents per book in printing costs. So much enjoyed that I've ordered the first of Eric Nylund's Halo books as well as the new one by Karen Traviss, "The Thursday War". Ships from and sold by DaimondInTheRough.

I lost count of how many times the gang was just wandering around the ring, with me having no real interest in what they were seeing or doing from the start. And I really enjoyed it, mainly because instead of just following the characters as they follow another character (aka, the last book), the people in this story make their own path.


When I saw that Greg Bear had written what I think is a prequel, I thought that would be a good point to start - do the prequels, and then move on to what, I suppose is the main course; the books that have been around from the beginning.

However, the pace of the novel is really slow and there is a lot of wandering and long story times beneath the stars. Like the previews one it was good but a bit slower with less things going on which made it a bit dull. Be the first to ask a question about Halo.


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