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Tiermann's World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way. The Tiermanns live in luxury, in a fantastic, futuristic, fully-automated Dreamhome, under an impenetrable force shield. But that won't protect them from the Voracious Craw. A gigantic and extremely hungry alien creature is heading remorselessly towards their home. When it gets there everything will be devoured. Can they get away in time? With the force shield cracking up, and the Dreamhome itself deciding who should or should not leave, things are looking desperate...
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Paul Magrs is the author of four previous Doctor Who novels The Scarlet Empress, The Blue Angel, Verdigris and Mad Dogs and Englishmen
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Sick Bulding Review,
This review is from: Doctor Who: Sick Building (Hardcover)
I have been a fan of Doctor Who since 1985. I have come to really like the 10th Doctor, and have been trying to aquire many 10 th Doctor books. I think what interested about this book, was that it took place on a snowy planet, and I love snow.
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Silly building,
By Anne K. Simmons "doodlemum" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Doctor Who: Sick Building (Hardcover)
The new line of Doctor Who books are meant to be juvenile-friendly stories. No problem. I'm a big kid. However, juvenile-friendly sometimes translates into silly. In Sick Building, we have a giant, planet-sucking blob, a house that's gone crazy, and a vending machine with a bit of a crush on the Doctor. The threat never really seems all that threatening, perhaps because the solutions are, well, silly: the Doctor doing a one-man (and two-machine) cover of Bohemian Rhapsody to sooth the savage beast (OK, I chuckled at that); and an ending that involves a lot of soda pop and a very loud PA system.Heaped on top of the silliness is a cliched arrogant genius serving as the antagonist. He's just not interesting enough, and far too predictable, to drive the story. There are good points, though. Paul Magrs has a solid writing style and he does a decent job of voicing the Doctor and Martha. He sets up a nicely awkward relationship between Martha and the teenage boy, Solin, who is unusually mature and direct in expressing his interest in Martha. And the Doctor teaming up with a rag-tag assemblage of intelligent household goods, called Servo-furnishings, is rather sweet and very Doctor-ish. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Surprised,
By Michelle A. Hollstein "Meashi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Doctor Who: Sick Building (Hardcover)
I'm surprised by the amount of people who gave this book low ratings. When I pick up a Doctor Who book, I expect the book to be beyond believable...even to the point of almost insanely silly. Since that was expected in the first place, I just sat back, relaxed and enjoyed the unbelievably crazy ride.
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Not Very Good,
By Peter Deadman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Doctor Who: Sick Building (Hardcover)
The concept for this story was great, and very old series like. A small group of people, an insane machine, an imminent threat, time running out.But what happened? A mess, that's what. Perhaps the most jarring thing was the sugary sweet 'disaster averted in the last 5 minutes' ending, which need not have happened. Since the surviving characters were about to escape, they could have left the planet to be destroyed, but some silly Deus Ex Machina plot came along to drive off the monster. The Doctor and Martha don't get much to do here, in fact nothing much happens at all. The antagonists are pretty dull, and the supporting characters are dull and/or silly. Really, a vending machine and a sun bed? This story suffers from poor pacing, coincidental chances and a vanishing villain. It is not explained why the mad computer vanishes, it's kind of just ignored. I didn't like this story. Just because a story is written for a younger audience doesn't mean it should have a bad plot and characters. I've liked several of these new adventures (Sting of the Zygon for example), but this one just didn't do it for me at all. What's worse, there was a lot of potential here. |
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