The Fall of Reach
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
Glasslands
The Thursday War
and Cryptum.
I’m a huge fan of the Halo Universe and all its fiction and will be reading more of it tomorrow but…my god does this book get any better? Its just 150 pages of Chakas, Vinnevra, Gamelpar and the Lord of Admirals in Chaka’s head walking. That all that has happened so far, nonstop walking. The biggest events so far has been when they saw the Timeless One leading the humans into the “Palace of Pain” and turned back, and when they found a Proto-Gravemind made up of Forerunners in a wooden, suspended human village and boated away.(Does this get explained later? Why where the Forerunners fighting in a vacant human city, suspended above a lake, with no armor and with a locked up Proto-Gravemind?)but besides that there is just WALKING.
All the action is towards the end. Yes it gets better. Although I personally enjoyed the Journey, especially when they did discover things like the Proto-Gravemind and Forthencho butted in with his advanced knowledge. It was interesting IMO.
I have to agree…Cryptum, something was always happening. Primordium…walking. I stopped reading about the same time. I will finish it sometime this week for Halo 4, but yes it is a very,VERY BORING Book!
> All the action is towards the end. Yes it gets better. Although I personally enjoyed the Journey, especially when they did discover things like the Proto-Gravemind and Forthencho butted in with his advanced knowledge. It was interesting IMO.
It had its moments. But for the most part, the journey was really dragging. I found myself speed reading through those parts instead savoring every word and moment as in previous Halo books such as The Fall of Reach, Ghosts of Onyx, Glasslands, The Thursday War, and Cryptum.
I actually found Cryptum to be more boring than Primordium to be quite honest >_> Primordium had the whole mystery of what was going on and there was so much you didn’t know. Pretty much everything in the book is explained in some way or is something advancing the Precursor subplot to be finished off in Silentium.
Yes, it does. Primordium is the book of madness. The series of events towards the end of the book make up for the long journey to get there. Cryptum was definitely a more action-packed read, and I believe Silentium will be very similar. There is a lot of story to tell in Silentium. So many questions that must be answered. Primordium is the madness that is in between.
Yes the ending of Primordium picks up quite a bit, both in terms of action/drama and mention of characters, objects, and places that are important to the overall Halo mythology.
It’s walking. And walking. And walking. There’s some nice, interesting things in the middle of that, but majority of it is just walking until nearing the end. Nearing the end is where Yoink! gets real.
It’s much slower than the rest of the books, but it’ll definitely fly by when you’re near the end.
It’s boring, yes, but…soak up the detail, man! You’re hearing about ancient humans living on a stolen Halo in the middle of a Forerunner conflict. It may mostly be walking, but it’s a Greg Bear novel. Enjoy the journey - enjoy the sci fi. Enjoy the detail. And keep in mind that most of the things you’re reading about are not perceived properly. You are in the head of Chakas. He does not have all of the answers you seek. Things like the Palaces of Pain and the Primordial are beyond his comprehension - he doesn’t understand them, so Greg kind of glosses over them. You have to think - not passively read - and it becomes much more interesting. If you were sent on a visual tour of this Halo ring in the footsteps of Chakas and company, you would be able to digest a lot of this detail better, and understand a lot of intriguing things.
So please, read slowly - be deliberate. Question things that are vague, and don’t take the skewed conclusions of Chakas as reliable - he’s mostly wrong. Use your head - the novel becomes much more interesting. It is a good read. And it is madness, sheer madness.