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Doom
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416509950
ISBN: 141650995X
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 27, 2005
Publisher: Pocket Star
Studio: Pocket Star
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Editorial Review:
Far in the future...an urgent distress signal is received from a classified Union Aerospace Corporation research facility based on Olduvai, Mars -- and is suddenly silenced. Assigned to either contain or quarantine the mysterious threat, a crack strike team comprised of the most hard-bitten marines around believes that this will be another routine seek-and-destroy mission. But they will soon come face-to-face with the hellish nightmares that the researchers' unorthodox experiments have unleashed on Olduvai -- a place where doom is waiting....
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Doesn't deserve to be called "DOOM"
This book might be based on the movie, but neither have ANYTHING to do with the game. None of the monsters are from hell, they're all the horrible results of lab experiments gone wrong. None of the weapons look like the ones from the game except the BFG. It's an abysmal, insulting attempt at both a movie and a book of one of the most popular PC games ever.
Anyone who gives this book a good rating has NEVER played the game. If you really want to read books that cover the REAL storyline ... Read More
Rating:  - Rip Roarin Yarn
Once again Shirley delivers the goods in this gripping, superbly characterized screen adaptation of the infamous 1st person shooter game that charmed our socks off over ten years ago. What is it exactly that you want out of a video-game-turned-movie novelization? I personally have less interest in a paint-by-numbers representation carefully shaded in to please fans than I am in simply reading a killer story w/believable characters, and that is exactly the author's approach in this satisfying homage ... Read More
Rating:  - Doomed plot
The Author did very well when you consider this is a book that is based on a screenplay that is based on a video game. Buy the book to support the author but if you have other books you like save your money and either buy it used or get it from the library.
Rating:  - DOOM
Far in the future an urgent distress signal is received from a UAC research station on Olduvai mars. Soon after an elite strike team comprised of some of the most battle hardened marines is sent to Olduvai to detain and neutralize the strange threat, but they will soon come face to face with the hellish nightmares unleashed on Olduvai by the scientists' unorthodox experiments. Olduvai...... a place where doom waits.
This is one of the best books I have ever read, ... Read More
Rating: - Not a bad adaptation
Doom wasn't a bad film, and this isn't a bad novelization, either. It's well written, and if one can just tear their mind away from the fact that this ISN'T supposed to be religiously based on the game and try to accept it on it's own merits, they might actually enjoy it.
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