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itst's review against another edition
2.0
For me, the book does not work at all. I wonder how the other novels of the series manage to have any plot at all? Anyway. Not my cup of tea.
coopercodes's review
2.0
This is a re read of a book/series I loved as a young teenager.
They aren’t great, but they’re pulp fiction and I love how stupid it is. They’re a 2.5 at most, read at your own risk
They aren’t great, but they’re pulp fiction and I love how stupid it is. They’re a 2.5 at most, read at your own risk
joebuuz's review against another edition
3.0
Oh the joys of youth. I read this as a freshman in high school and I will say that the book did not age as I remember.
usef's review against another edition
if i could rate this 0 stars, i would. DNF
read up until page 46/236, cant get my self to read any further
i found it hard to understand the doom games stoyline, i looked online and i found that there is a novel series that is ( loosely ) based on the Doom games.
so i tried reading this book, in hopes it could would help me understand the games more, even though the novels have a different story then the games.
----the plot
the story starts of in somewhere??? i couldnt even tell what was happening other then the fact that he said there were torn body parts and blood in the place.
then the officer asked them to kill a set of people ( a group of monks ) for no reason and it made no sense at all?? at this point into the story monsters havent been introduced and dont exist so why is he asking them to kill random people??
next thing i know the charachters are going to mars because something happened on one of its moons
our charachter, Fly , finds zombies there and also demons ? i get the demon part but what do zombies have to do in doom? ( edit : turns out there are zombies in doom my bad ) anyways he kills them and the zombies manage to tell him a good amount of info but the charachter is too stupid to understand what theyre saying which pissed me off.
----the charachters
we were introduced to so many charachters so quickly that i didnt even understand who was who. our main charachter is arrogant as hell and idk if this is just the writer or the charachter but everytime a female is introduced he talks about " she is just as much of a soldier as any other man " and compares her to men with EVERY. SINGLE. WOMAN.
>>Of course, there was a lot more to Arlene; she had a brain.
( ???? not even taking this out of context thats all he says)
also our main charachter refers to himself as Yours Truly throughout the story and it was annoying
>>before it could reacquire its target, Yours Truly,
>>The old survival mechanism was definitely starting to kick in for Yours Truly.
----the writing
i shot the monster. i turned around. i pushed the trigger. i realized that some of the moster had fallen on a lever which i had not realized opens a door.
the whole writing was somewhat similair to that, i did this and i did that.
the charachter would repeat lines about how he wished he would not find this girl he likes dead. every few lines he would go on and on about how he was worried her body was in between the piles of body or how he worried she had become a zombie, just to end it with something like " no i know she is too strong to become a zombie."
>>I prayed she was lying dead on the deck, not stumbling toward me with dry, unblinking eyes and a sour-lemon smell.
>>“No,” I heard myself talking to no one, “she’d never allow herself to be turned into one of those.”
the author would slip in " god damn it " or " jesus " every few lines and it got annoying fast.
>>"If Arlene were being shot at, God damn it, I intended to shoot back!
>>My whole body went cold. Jesus—Arlene was down there.
oh and this book had a big case of white room syndrome a good 90% of the time
i think you can tell this book did not match my expectations at all as i love the game
the games main story is that a gate to hell is opened in one of mars' moons and another of mars moons disappears, thats just the main games the story gets deeper later on , i think that could definetely give you a great story yet this book managed to mess that up so much.
read up until page 46/236, cant get my self to read any further
i found it hard to understand the doom games stoyline, i looked online and i found that there is a novel series that is ( loosely ) based on the Doom games.
so i tried reading this book, in hopes it could would help me understand the games more, even though the novels have a different story then the games.
----the plot
the story starts of in somewhere??? i couldnt even tell what was happening other then the fact that he said there were torn body parts and blood in the place.
then the officer asked them to kill a set of people ( a group of monks ) for no reason and it made no sense at all?? at this point into the story monsters havent been introduced and dont exist so why is he asking them to kill random people??
next thing i know the charachters are going to mars because something happened on one of its moons
our charachter, Fly , finds zombies there and also demons ? i get the demon part but what do zombies have to do in doom? ( edit : turns out there are zombies in doom my bad ) anyways he kills them and the zombies manage to tell him a good amount of info but the charachter is too stupid to understand what theyre saying which pissed me off.
----the charachters
we were introduced to so many charachters so quickly that i didnt even understand who was who. our main charachter is arrogant as hell and idk if this is just the writer or the charachter but everytime a female is introduced he talks about " she is just as much of a soldier as any other man " and compares her to men with EVERY. SINGLE. WOMAN.
>>Of course, there was a lot more to Arlene; she had a brain.
( ???? not even taking this out of context thats all he says)
also our main charachter refers to himself as Yours Truly throughout the story and it was annoying
>>before it could reacquire its target, Yours Truly,
>>The old survival mechanism was definitely starting to kick in for Yours Truly.
----the writing
i shot the monster. i turned around. i pushed the trigger. i realized that some of the moster had fallen on a lever which i had not realized opens a door.
the whole writing was somewhat similair to that, i did this and i did that.
the charachter would repeat lines about how he wished he would not find this girl he likes dead. every few lines he would go on and on about how he was worried her body was in between the piles of body or how he worried she had become a zombie, just to end it with something like " no i know she is too strong to become a zombie."
>>I prayed she was lying dead on the deck, not stumbling toward me with dry, unblinking eyes and a sour-lemon smell.
>>“No,” I heard myself talking to no one, “she’d never allow herself to be turned into one of those.”
the author would slip in " god damn it " or " jesus " every few lines and it got annoying fast.
>>"If Arlene were being shot at, God damn it, I intended to shoot back!
>>My whole body went cold. Jesus—Arlene was down there.
oh and this book had a big case of white room syndrome a good 90% of the time
i think you can tell this book did not match my expectations at all as i love the game
the games main story is that a gate to hell is opened in one of mars' moons and another of mars moons disappears, thats just the main games the story gets deeper later on , i think that could definetely give you a great story yet this book managed to mess that up so much.
nickfourtimes's review against another edition
3.0
[cw rip & tear]
1) "I stared in horror. Even eighteen months of picking up after the Scythe of Glory and their Shining Path buddies didn't prepare me for what was left of pik Nizganij.
It was a Bosch canvas, severed limbs and hollowed-out trunks — eaten out by animals, I prayed — planted through the fields like stalks of corn, blood painting doors and walls like the first Passover... except it was human blood, not lamb's blood.
Corporal Flynn Taggart, Fox Company, 15th Light Drop Infantry Regiment, United States Marine Corps; 888-23-9912. Everyone calls me Fly, except when they're pissed."
2) "At least for the one day we spent on Mars, we had a view. The domes were made of super-thick, insulated plastic, but were cleverly designed to give the illusion of being thin as a soap bubble. The only trouble was that the view wasn't very impressive — a blank expanse of empty desert broken by an equally barren, dark purple sky. I was only so thrilled with looking at stars. I liked something bigger up there. Although we could see Phobos from Mars base camp, it was so tiny it almost looked like a bright star trucking across the sky. Not enough moon for a melancholy mood.
But now as I crawled the land-cart out under the black, airless sky of Phobos, I enjoyed my first genuine feeling of freedom since I left Earth. Mars loomed in the sky, three-quarters full, larger than any moon and burning red as all the blood of all the armies ever spilled in uncountable battles across the stupid, drooling face of eternity — the face of a monster."
3) "Bill didn't stop; he came closer. Desperate, feeling like Cain, I returned fire. Given the half-dead condition Bill was in, killing him all the way should have been easy. The first bullet took him in the throat, above his Kevlar armor. That should have done the job, but he kept on coming. I pumped more rounds at Bill, and finally one connected with his head. That dropped him.
But even as brains and blood oozed onto the corridor floor, his body continued to flop around the way a chicken does when its head has been removed. Humans don't do that... and they don't have a sour-lemon smell either, which was suddenly so overpowering that I could barely breathe.
I stared, shaking like a California earthquake.
I was looking — at — a zombie."
4) "I felt like a ghoul, but feelings were a luxury. With a shotgun in my arsenal, my survival rating took a big leap up the charts.
I checked the bore and found no obstructions. There were plenty of shells in the bandoleer around her body. I thanked Dudette for being a Marine to the end... semper fi, Mac."
5) "The alien grimaced, facial muscles finally growing rigid. Then for a moment it relaxed. 'We could eat anybody onccce,'' it declared. Then it stopped moving; even the cilia in its mouth stood up straight and froze. The demon was dead."
6) "The simplicity of the layout and the big blocks of stone made secret doors less likely here, although I would pause occasionally and try pushing against anything that looked remotely promising."
7) "Then it died the messiest monster death I had seen so far. One moment the ball was bouncing against the walls; the next, there came a spray of sticky, blue goo that smelled like caramelized pumpkin pie and sounded like an overripe squash dropped ten stories. I seriously considered losing the lunch I had struggled so hard to ingest.
'Oo-rah!' exulted Arlene. 'Smashing pumpkins into small pieces of putrid debris! What the hell was that?'"
8) "We found a cozy room with four doors and a single switch in the center. 'Do you hear that?' Arlene asked.
Until she mentioned it, I hadn't heard anything but our heavy breathing; but then I noticed something so unbelievably loud that a deaf man should have felt it; concentration is a funny thing.
It sounded like the World Trade Center taking a stroll just outside.
We rotated slowly, tracking the noise, and I thought about that movie with the tyrannosaurus stomping around."
9) "To exit the room we had to squeeze through a narrow opening that looked exactly like... well, I didn't like to even think about it.
I volunteered to go first, and she didn't object. 'Fly,' came her voice as we wriggled and writhed through the orifice, 'do you ever get the feeling you're being born again?'"
10) "Suddenly, Arlene gasped; her eyes opened wide. 'Fly, I have it!'
'What?'
'I know how to do it!'
'Do what damn it?'
Her lips moved, silently calculating. Then she grinned. 'I know how to get us across to Earth, Fly!'"
1) "I stared in horror. Even eighteen months of picking up after the Scythe of Glory and their Shining Path buddies didn't prepare me for what was left of pik Nizganij.
It was a Bosch canvas, severed limbs and hollowed-out trunks — eaten out by animals, I prayed — planted through the fields like stalks of corn, blood painting doors and walls like the first Passover... except it was human blood, not lamb's blood.
Corporal Flynn Taggart, Fox Company, 15th Light Drop Infantry Regiment, United States Marine Corps; 888-23-9912. Everyone calls me Fly, except when they're pissed."
2) "At least for the one day we spent on Mars, we had a view. The domes were made of super-thick, insulated plastic, but were cleverly designed to give the illusion of being thin as a soap bubble. The only trouble was that the view wasn't very impressive — a blank expanse of empty desert broken by an equally barren, dark purple sky. I was only so thrilled with looking at stars. I liked something bigger up there. Although we could see Phobos from Mars base camp, it was so tiny it almost looked like a bright star trucking across the sky. Not enough moon for a melancholy mood.
But now as I crawled the land-cart out under the black, airless sky of Phobos, I enjoyed my first genuine feeling of freedom since I left Earth. Mars loomed in the sky, three-quarters full, larger than any moon and burning red as all the blood of all the armies ever spilled in uncountable battles across the stupid, drooling face of eternity — the face of a monster."
3) "Bill didn't stop; he came closer. Desperate, feeling like Cain, I returned fire. Given the half-dead condition Bill was in, killing him all the way should have been easy. The first bullet took him in the throat, above his Kevlar armor. That should have done the job, but he kept on coming. I pumped more rounds at Bill, and finally one connected with his head. That dropped him.
But even as brains and blood oozed onto the corridor floor, his body continued to flop around the way a chicken does when its head has been removed. Humans don't do that... and they don't have a sour-lemon smell either, which was suddenly so overpowering that I could barely breathe.
I stared, shaking like a California earthquake.
I was looking — at — a zombie."
4) "I felt like a ghoul, but feelings were a luxury. With a shotgun in my arsenal, my survival rating took a big leap up the charts.
I checked the bore and found no obstructions. There were plenty of shells in the bandoleer around her body. I thanked Dudette for being a Marine to the end... semper fi, Mac."
5) "The alien grimaced, facial muscles finally growing rigid. Then for a moment it relaxed. 'We could eat anybody onccce,'' it declared. Then it stopped moving; even the cilia in its mouth stood up straight and froze. The demon was dead."
6) "The simplicity of the layout and the big blocks of stone made secret doors less likely here, although I would pause occasionally and try pushing against anything that looked remotely promising."
7) "Then it died the messiest monster death I had seen so far. One moment the ball was bouncing against the walls; the next, there came a spray of sticky, blue goo that smelled like caramelized pumpkin pie and sounded like an overripe squash dropped ten stories. I seriously considered losing the lunch I had struggled so hard to ingest.
'Oo-rah!' exulted Arlene. 'Smashing pumpkins into small pieces of putrid debris! What the hell was that?'"
8) "We found a cozy room with four doors and a single switch in the center. 'Do you hear that?' Arlene asked.
Until she mentioned it, I hadn't heard anything but our heavy breathing; but then I noticed something so unbelievably loud that a deaf man should have felt it; concentration is a funny thing.
It sounded like the World Trade Center taking a stroll just outside.
We rotated slowly, tracking the noise, and I thought about that movie with the tyrannosaurus stomping around."
9) "To exit the room we had to squeeze through a narrow opening that looked exactly like... well, I didn't like to even think about it.
I volunteered to go first, and she didn't object. 'Fly,' came her voice as we wriggled and writhed through the orifice, 'do you ever get the feeling you're being born again?'"
10) "Suddenly, Arlene gasped; her eyes opened wide. 'Fly, I have it!'
'What?'
'I know how to do it!'
'Do what damn it?'
Her lips moved, silently calculating. Then she grinned. 'I know how to get us across to Earth, Fly!'"
cantrememberthedreamthatihad's review against another edition
3.0
Completely and utterly ridiculous and I enjoyed it t once I embraced the madness of the text.
lixxielicious's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
It’s not a bad book, but I had such a hard time reading it since the action scenes are, ironically enough, extremely tedious. I found the characters to be lovable and interesting, and their dialogue along with the main character’s thoughts to be easily the most interesting part of the book. I realized while reading it that it feels like a lot of flat out nothing happens for most of it! “Fly” goes through this facility killing things, occasionally gets hurt, occasionally does something interesting to kill enemies or has some memories or thoughts that being more light to himself as a person or the situation at hand. I felt like this was mostly about the characters, since there just wasn’t much story actually happening. Just some speculation on what is going on, but there really isn’t too much at all going on story wise. It was worth the read since I liked the characters, although the first half seemed to have a lot of feminist perspectives, but in the second half they completely revert to being borderline misogynistic. Not enough to be offensive, just enough that the good will that seemed to be built up about the main characters views on women turn out be very boomer-humor like.
spicygeek's review against another edition
2.0
2.5 Stars. Not completely terrible but not great either. You really have to already enjoy the game and world in order to like the book. The writing was a bit repetitive at times with certain phrases and words that were used. I am interested to see what happens in the next book because of how it ended but I’m also not in any hurry to get to it.
booknerd93's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
djwudi's review against another edition
2.0
Okay, so I wasn't exactly expecting much when I found this one at Goodwill…but it didn't even live up to those low expectations. Not even enjoyably dumb, just bad. All the thrills and excitement you'd expect from reading about watching someone else play a video game. One of the rare books to go right back to Goodwill.