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Summary: Good, but not too good...
Review: I'll have to say, I love Doom. Call me old fashioned, but don't say I have a bad taste in books. This series has to be one of the best I've read, and believe me, I've read alot. The first book was amazing. From chapter three on, that book was non-stop action and adventure. The second book was good, but it's action was from about chapter fifteen on. Though not as good as the first, this book is a very important part to the series. This installment tells about the lives of our hero's, as well as introduces us to two new allies, Jill and Albert. It also includes some new demons, Bony's, fatty's, and a couple more. I really liked the train scene, and look forward to the next book. From what I've heard, it's good, but a little long before it gets rolling. I'll see how I like it.
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Summary: [Guns & Glory]
Review: I've been a "Doom" fanatic for a very long time. The computer game revolutionized "shooting" games and gave a futuristic story about "alien invaders" (Demons & Satanic beings from hell) who've escaped their chains and cellblock's in the under-world through ancient "gates" in space. In my oppinion, the Doom series of books put a story and characters behind the senseless killing, thus creating a thrilling story line in the grand tradition of Heinland's "Starship Troopers" as the title at the top of the book suggests. This book (Hell on Earth) was my favorite out of the series and is highly recommended. After reading the first two books, you'll wonder why the major-motion picture starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the main hero was cancelled!
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Summary: This was a good book.
Review: Doom 2 Hell on Earth was a good book. But it cannot even really be compared to the first one. It takes place on Earth were Fly, Arlene, Albert, and Jill embark on an adventure through a world of Demons.
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Summary: ANOTHER FINE NOVEL BY DAFYDD AB HUGH!!! 5 STARS!!!!!
Review: I previously commented on the 1st novel in the 4 part series, Knee-Deep in the Dead, and I just have to comment again!! This is a damn fine book!! The DOOM series of books are some of the finest pieces of literature that i have read. I have read all the boring classics and such for school but I read this series for enjoyment. I have read the entire 4 book set 3 times and it just gets better and better each time I read it. This book takes the reader deeper into the cosmos of space as "Fly" Taggart and Arlene Sanders encounter strange creatures as they try to save the human race. The aliens have almost perfected a monster that looks exactly like a human, and Fly has to stop them before they take the next step towards final global domination. This is a must read!!! I recommend reading Knee-Deep in the Dead first in order to understand and enjoy the story more fully, but you don't have to...It is a great story just by itself. Well folks... that is all for me today on this book...See you in the next book review for HELL ON EARTH! --Pudge
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Summary: The Best interpratation of the DOOM PC game
Review: This was a wonderful book and I really enjoyed reading it. I can't wait to read the next two. Dafydd Ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver Did a great job of bringing out the Characters thoughts and emotions. I really liked the way the authors portrayed an Alien invasion also. Hey I love the book so much that My AOL screen Name is Fly Taggart, the exact same name of the main character. If that doesnt show How much I love the books, I dont know What would! If you get a chance to read this book Do it, It doesn't matter if your a doom fanitic or not, I'm not and I usually HATE science fiction books, and I EXTREMELY enjoyed this book. To sum it up: READ THIS BOOK
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Summary: Pretty good, but no heinlein
Review: I did enjoy this book, but comparing it to starship troopers is like comparing Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy to a short history of the universe. anyone who says that this is close to heinlein, either missed the point of starship troopers, or is a total idiot, or both. yeah, this book is pretty well writen and is certainly action packed, but starship troopers was his idea of government and the armed forces. there are, actually, only 2 or 3 action sequences in starship troopers. like I said, good book but heinlein it aint.
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Summary: Worthy sequel to an already killer story
Review: On thing I'll point before I start my rant is that I actaully read this book first BEFORE I read KDITD. I saw HOE in the Summer of 1995(I was 12) on the racks of the book portion of(of all places) a grocery store. This was just before I had first played the game which was in the Fall of that year. About three years later in Spring of 1998 I saw the rest of the Doom books and was finally able to makes heads and tales of what was happening. Now on to the book. I do think that this follows its videogame counterpart much less than the book before it, but this does not really make for a boring read. The first book was more on the lines of a freakish thriller than it was on all-out-action. In the first one, Fly and Arlene are pretty much alone against the (biologically created) aliens, trying to to stop them from coming out of the Martian space ports and into earth and keep a threating situation under contol. In this book, the aliens get into earth anyway and the surviving members of the human race must try to beat back the invader as well as back-stabbing human traitors who sold out their own race. The situation is no longer contained but it has exploded and now must be halted. Still this book has the traditional Doom sort of violence that will make you think of the video game right away. The action is a bit more unpredicatable as they are on earth, and that allows for a lot more variety of things to occur, as opposed to the Mars Moon bases. The basic plot is more oriented on a specific mission instead of simply blasting and killing stuff. When Fly and Arlene leave Deimos in a mail rocket and land near Salt Lake City, they decide to hike to one of the last strongholds of humanity. They join up with the largely Mormon-male resitance. In good intention, Fly and Arlene find a radio in an effort to report all the stuff from the first book to their superiors. They have no idea that their Commander has been possesed by the aliens, and as they gives name and location to a no-longer-human Colonel of the Corps, the resistance begins to doubt F&A's usefulness but chooses to let them fight in the oncoming assault anyway. The leader of the resitance decides they can be forgiven if they go on a mission to prove themselves worthy. The mission is to make it to L.A. and take down a forcefield generater that blocks people from leaving the country. After this they are to get to a super top-secret military complex in Hawaii. They gain two new allies. Albert, one of the Mormons who has sniper experinece and somehow attracts the affection of the rightiously-atheistic Arlene, and Jill, a tennager who has no cambat experiance but the compuet hacking skills needed to take out the generator. Some of the most humorous moments in the book were in SLC, where Arlene begins to sound like a radical femenist as she is at odds with Mormon patriarchy, and the scene in the super market where A&A look for some lemons to cover themselves with as a means of blending in with the zomibies. They way the zombies act like disorganized shoppers long after their bodies have died is reason for laughter itself. The whole book is chopped full of Fly's subtle, dumb jokes and humor that made the first book so good. The little voice in the back of his head is still there, so expect it to get more than just its 2 cents in.
I also found the idea of Ken the "cybermummy" interesting. He gets captured by the aliens and is covered with many electronic tech bits that restrict his movement. He is being used as a human computer tool, and gets wrapped up in bandages when he get transported on a train where our heroes find him and pull him from evil's possession. All in all this is a good book that really expands the Doom story much more than the game's creator ever thought possible. Infernal Sky is also good but about half way through I think the story got messed up when F&A were sent into space once again. If you ever find this as well as the one before it you should by all means pick both of them up.
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Summary: Underestimated
Review: I absolutely love this book. Doom: Hell on Earth is the second part to a four part series and is among my favorite of books. I highly reccomend this book and the whole series to all who love action, adventure, and sci-fi books. It is an excellent representation of the game but is far better because, with its unique writing style and hugley descriptive words you are taken to the moons of mars. It allows enough to the imagination without being bleak. The Doom series is a wonderful book collection.
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Summary: Underestimated
Review: The whole Doom series are among my favorite of books. Doom: Hell on Earth is a fantastic book filled with action and suspense. It has a very unique style of writing that I would love to see more often. You will be taken into the world of Doom with its great description and great story. I reccomend this book and the whole series to everyone.
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Summary: 3 and A HALF stars
Review: This book's major flaw is NOT its lack of violence, but it's lack of wit, style, and believability. The first few chapters will definatly remind readers of the spectacularly entertaining blood-bath that was KNEE-DEEP IN THE DEAD. In this one, Fly Taggart and tough-chick Arlene Sanders jerry-rig a mail rocket against the clock to blast themselves back to earth... No really... and they survive too. Still, these guys make it sound a helluva lot more believable than I can, and it only adds to the sense of fun and gives Fly and Arlene even more of that Bruce-Willis-DIE-HARD indestructibility. They crashland in Utah (reminds me of The Scorpion King, where The Rock falls 20 stories, then stands up and groans, as if he's only popped his back; Fly and Arlene are kinda like that) and are captured/recruited by the Mormons, whose paranoia of American government and the world in general allowed it to become a stronghold in the Alien invasion. I like regular, "serious" novels, so when I tell you that it gets boring, it's not because I am an action-hungry hormone-crazy blood fiend. It gets boring... with sprawling passages on pointless exposition and Book-of-Mormon quoting. Thankfully, it's not THAT boring. Certainly not the point where I wanted to put this book down. It's a quite a switch to be confronted with all these new characters when the first book had only 2 most of the time. Readers will probably still be used to that rugged, all-alone-on-another-world feel from the original book. None of these characters are as interesting as Fly and Arlene, though. The action returns later on in the book, but it lacks the intensity and style of the first book. Not to say that it isn't stylistic or intense. Overall.. I give this book a more solid recommendation than my star rating suggests because it leads into the last books of the series, which are incredible. This book has been criticized by other users as having nothing to do with DOOM or anything. But with 4 books, how far do you expect these guys to stretch the simple "Walk-around-find-key-kill-demon" theme? A plot HAD to emerge somewhere. And it emerges big and bold here. While it doesn't hold the striking human characteristics of INFERNAL SKY, HELL ON EARTH is still worth reading more than once. Saying that this is the worst of the series is like saying that RETURN OF THE JEDI was he worst of the STAR WARS trilogy.....
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