[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Cheeto666 Wolverfrog is legit. He's one of the people in the Universe forum who's opinions and thoughts on Halo I respect. Hell, he knows more about Halo than I do, and I've been playing since the game came out in 2001. On topic: I don't like what they're doing to Halsey, but I can respect it. Hindsight is 20/20. If America and Russia went to all out war, and we created supersoldiers to win that war, and it later turns out they were made to put down radical islam in the Middle east, you can bet your ass that there would be war crimes trials. Perfect example: The nuclear bomb. A lot of people think that America committed war crimes by dropping those bombs on Japan. Do we? Of course not. And at the time? No one objected, because it was ending an already devastating war that was about to get a lot bloodier. So, in Halo, they look back on what Halsey did, and realize that it was wrong. As far as I know, they don't outright admit that they didn't need the Spartans, or that they didn't single handedly save humanity, but they do point out that what was done was, technically, morally wrong. I haven't read Traviss' books, so I'm not sure of the full extent of the charges, but I can understand where this Parangosky fellow is coming from, even if he/she is a bad dude. And besides, every war crime needs a posterchild, so to speak. One person who takes the majority of the blame. Obviously, ONI isn't going to take the blame for its own project, and instead, shift it onto just one of the major people involved in it. [/quote] Staying on topic myself, heres the thing: Not reading Glasslands was kind of a double sword. While you avoided the hack writing you also missed out on the controversy. Believe me, as the choice was put forward by another post further down, it definitely is the result of shoddy writing. I really had to force myself to finish that book. I would suggest getting a summary somewhere but dont waste hard earned money on it. I decided for myself that knowing the story first hand in lieu of skipping the shoddy writing in "Thursday War" was just not worth it and settled for a summary of it. Its the first book I havent read in the universe and based on the reactions of the forums, I didnt miss much.