Texas Libra
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Well, I just finished it a couple of days ago, and let me tell you I wasn't terribly impressed, but not totally disgusted either. The biggest problem of the book wasn't the quality of the writing, but rather the umpteenmillion typos I saw in my copy. A couple of other things that I found a bit "meh" about it were it was horrendously drawn out until right at the end of the book where it suddenly advances 3 or 4 levels of the game in just a few pages, and it also kept jumping character arcs every few other paragraph or so. Also the whole Theo-and-his-mom thing I found a bit cheesy, and Swann was portrayed as a total whimp, but I guess I can let the latter of that slide since this was more or less based on the author's original story for Doom 3. However I noticed there's even a few changes from his own original story...if you've read The Making of Doom 3 book you'll see what I mean.
Overall, worth 8 bucks if you've got the money and need to kill time at work like I do (working at a call center) and have a lot of downtime. I'd say read it once if you're that much of a fan, then put it away for a while so it doesn't become damaged and frayed like I did with all 4 of my original Doom novels.
And I'm of the general consensus here that it's much better written than the original books. That makes 6 Doom novels total that I now own (the original 4, the movie novel, and this one). Here's to the next in the series.
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03-04-08 02:28 
