Helpful Score: 1
From back cover: The Gates were there on Phobos when mankind first arrived. Inert, unyielding, impossibly alien constructs, for twenty years they sat lifeless, mute testaments to thir long-vanished creators. Then one day, they sprang to life.
Meet Corporal Flynn Taggart, United States Marine Corps; serial number 888-23-9912. He's the best warrior the twenty-first century has to offer, which is a damned good thing. Because Flynn Taggart is all that's standing between the hell that just dropped in on Mars an an unsuspecting planet Earth.
This book is a take off on the video game phenomenon DOOM, the first of several books set in the DOOM universe.
Meet Corporal Flynn Taggart, United States Marine Corps; serial number 888-23-9912. He's the best warrior the twenty-first century has to offer, which is a damned good thing. Because Flynn Taggart is all that's standing between the hell that just dropped in on Mars an an unsuspecting planet Earth.
This book is a take off on the video game phenomenon DOOM, the first of several books set in the DOOM universe.
Complete and Absolute Drek!
I loved the game, a lot. So I went into this book expecting a nice mindless action read. What I got was something stitched together so poorly that I couldn't even contemplate reading the next 3 in the series.
Characterization-Fly, the main character, refers to himself as "Yours Truly" so many times that it hurts. He agonizes over "just being friends" with the lone surviving female marine and has daddy issues. All of which are explored in the worst way possible, grammatically and plotwise.
Continuity-sticks almost exactly to the game. Explaining things though, makes it sound really dumb. We all know that picking up a medpack makes you better in the game and that the chainsaw can be cool, but to incorporate them into this book, the author twists and curves the plot so unbelievably that even MY "accept, don't think" meter broke.
Grammar, etc. This got to me almost as much as the travesty of a plot. Word and sentence structure were awkward. Names from the game inserted so heavy handedly without ANY finesse. It almost seemed like English wasn't the authors first language and that there were NO editors involved in this work whatsoever.
Drek, drek, drek, drek!
I loved the game, a lot. So I went into this book expecting a nice mindless action read. What I got was something stitched together so poorly that I couldn't even contemplate reading the next 3 in the series.
Characterization-Fly, the main character, refers to himself as "Yours Truly" so many times that it hurts. He agonizes over "just being friends" with the lone surviving female marine and has daddy issues. All of which are explored in the worst way possible, grammatically and plotwise.
Continuity-sticks almost exactly to the game. Explaining things though, makes it sound really dumb. We all know that picking up a medpack makes you better in the game and that the chainsaw can be cool, but to incorporate them into this book, the author twists and curves the plot so unbelievably that even MY "accept, don't think" meter broke.
Grammar, etc. This got to me almost as much as the travesty of a plot. Word and sentence structure were awkward. Names from the game inserted so heavy handedly without ANY finesse. It almost seemed like English wasn't the authors first language and that there were NO editors involved in this work whatsoever.
Drek, drek, drek, drek!
