There’s been a lot of petty sniping towardsHalofrom both the anti-Microsoft crowd and the contrarian, anti-mainstream crowd ever since the pre-release hype forHalo 3began building up, but absolutely no one, regardless of how tightly they cling to their myopic, childish beliefs, can deny one simple fact:Halois a brand that sells.
To drive that point home, we bring younews courtesy of GameDaily: it seems that the latest novelization based on the Master Chief’s fictional realm has debuted at #3 on theNew York Timesbestseller list and #23 on theUSA Todaybestseller list. The novel, entitledHalo: Contact Harvest, is the first book written by (Halocreator and Bungie Studios’ lead writer) Joseph Staten.
I’d like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Staten for his tremendous achievement here. I remember when my novel,Jurassic Park, hit theNYTlist; I was utterly ecstatic. My mother still has a wall covered in news clippings about that book and it’s the first thing I tell women about myself when I meet them. Shortly following that, I tell them I drive a tank. Then I drive over to Michael Crichton’s house, stealhistank, and take the ladies for a ride around the neighborhood, pausing only to point out trees that look like small dinosaurs — like those they might have read about in my novel,Jurassic Park— and to deep tongue kiss them inappropriately.
The women, not the trees. you’re able to’t tongue kiss a tree.
