Halo: The Fall of Reach

This book is obviously based on a video game. I'm not sure what some other reviewers were hoping to get out of the story, but I don't think it was meant to be thousands of pages of character development just to get to the inevitable ending that most anyone who played the game knew was coming. I do not think it is a rip off of Ender's Game at all, sure they start as kids learning to fight, but that's where the similarity stops. I found it very entertaining. It provides the back story for Master Chief and initially develops the canon of the Halo Universe very well. Because of this book I ended up listening/reading every other Halo book and have found the ones written by Eric Nylund to be the best. If they ever get around to making the Halo movie and want it to be successful, they had better not deviate much from this book.

I am a fan of Scifi literature. Without a doubt this is one of the best audiobooks I have had the pleasure of listening to. Eric Nylund is one of the best writers I have encountered in this genre. If you were only going to listen to one SciFi book, you would be well advised to listen to this book.

I've played the Halo games on Xbox360. I was told this book tells about the story before the 1st Halo game. I'm not sure how non-Halo fans would like this because without playing the game I wouldn't have felt attached to the people in the story. There's no reason to really care about them. But as a Halo fan I liked learning about the pre-game experience and how everything began, including why I wear a large green armor.

the narrator mispronounces a lot of words and terms. Aside from that, it's a fun listen that really fleshes out the character of the Master Chief.

I was weiry of this title bought it strickly on reviews and that i had a 10 hour drive ahead of me and needed a book to get me through it. im a fan of military sci fi but im often turned off by the endless model numbers and specs some authors like to give. i would compare this to star wars books but better. they build up the characters in a way that you like them and stay interested in the development and take through a story that makes it so you can wait for the next book.

It is pronounced Mjolnir. Half-silent J mixed into the M comes out like "meow", nir as in near-sighted. It is not Ma-jol-ner. The only thing that is more depressing than the fact that the narrator cannot pronounce that word correctly is that, by extension, every character in the book also mispronounces it (and that name comes up a lot)

Not if he's trying to pronounce any kind of ancient name.

Yes

The descriptions of how master chief became a spartan and hero of humanity

Master Chief and Jacob Keys

YES

Amazing book. I am going to listen to it over and over again.

Todd McLaren has become my new favorite Narrator. His vocal frequencies adjust accordingly to each character, situation, mood, energy, and stress of the story. Honestly, he made the story come alive.

I've listened to samples of other Narrators, and I fear Todd might have turned me off from listening to the other books now that I enjoyed this one so much.

I have not, I'm looking for other books and the other Halo book. It was too fun.

Goosebumps. The story is very serious and action packed, but Todd's tones sometimes sent shivers up my spine. A very good performance.

An excellent Sci-Fi book, however don't expect to understand everything unless you've had a visual reference first (eg, play the game or watch Halo: Forward Unto Dawn).

A series of books based on a video game I have never played? Aside from the fact that I knew that Halo was one of the most popular video series EVER, I never even considered the possibilty of an uderlying story. That is until I happened across a sales bin copy of Halo: Evolutions, audiobook. After that, I was able to Google the correct order of the books and I plan to listen to the whole series (I travel solo a good deal; and these are my co-pilots). The stories and charecters are engaging and the narration is first rate.

Amazon.com lost my original review when the hijacked Audible. Since I can no longer my original review and have not listened to this title in some time I can only give and good bad or ugly.

However I have listened to the entire series several times.