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Bezig met laden... Doctor Who and the Giant Robotdoor Terrance Dicks
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. http://nhw.livejournal.com/1041222.html#cutid1 Oddly enough, Dicks is not especially good at making his own stories transition happily to the printed page. There are some good bits added/changed here, especially the characterisation of the new Doctor, but in general it is competent rather than exciting. One point that struck me on reading this (rather than on watching the TV original) was the similarity between the Robot and the Hangman in Roger Zelazny's Hugo/Nebula winning novella, "Home is the Hangman". The Who story came first, but I would be surprised to learn that Zelazny had had a chance to see it; both he and Dicks were, of course, drawing from many other sources going back at least as far as Mary Shelley. I read somewhere once-- I forget where-- that this book was written before Tom Baker had been chosen as the 4th Doctor, and that his descriptions had been added in at the last moment. Whatever the case, this book is classically bad, and not just because it seems to have been written for a generic non-Tom-Baker kind of quasi-Pertwee Doctor, but because it's genuinely terrible. However, no one reads these things because they want good literature. I bought this for nostalgic reasons and I'm pretty sure almost everyone else does too. Remember watching the show as a kid? I never read any of these old books back then but I'm sure I would have enjoyed them. My friends and I would have eaten this thing up back when we were eight or so. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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This unabridged reading of a classic Doctor Who novelization is narrated by the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, and is based on a serial from the original TV series. "Look, Brigadier! It's growing!," screamed Sarah. The Brigadier stared in amazement as the Robot began to grow... and grow... swelling to the size of a giant! Slowly the metal colossus, casting its enormous shadow upon the surrounding trees and buildings, began to stride towards the Brigadier. A giant metal hand reached down to grasp him... Can Doctor Who defeat the evil forces ling the Robot before they execute their plans to blackmail-or destroy-the world? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This is a novelization of the Fourth Doctor story “Robot”, and it is excellent. This is the one where the Doctor tries out the Viking costume (“You’re right, this might attract attention”) and includes a well-known line about the word “impregnable” — “It reminds me of the Titanic. As the Titanic said to the iceberg, ‘glub glub glub’!” These familiar bits from the show made me grin like an idiot while reading this on the bus, and the story as a whole made for an extremely pleasant day’s worth of bus reading. Recommended if you’re looking for a quick fix of Classic Who. ( )