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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. It's an interesting book in where it's trying to take Troughton (probably the safest and most reassuring Doctor) and his companions, but it winds up essentially just being the prose equivalent of Saw style torture porn. And as we know the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are going to survive it lacks the tension that those need to work, so all it really has to offer is shock value. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A Second Doctor novel with Jamie and Victoria. The jungle world of Jenggel is divided. On one side are the primitive Papul people, with a picturesque culture. On the other are the civilised Indoni, out to exploit the Papuls for all they are worth, as a fantastic tourist attraction for off-worlders. As long as the Papuls put on their regular display of primeval ethnicity, things will be all right for them...to an extent. But at the slightest flicker of protest, the guns come out. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive on Jenggel at the height of a period of unrest. The Papul are reverting to their head-hunting ways, and the tourist trade suddenly doesn't seem like such a good idea. At the centre of the disturbance is a mysterious, cruel figure called the Krallik, for whom most Papul would gladly give up their lives. But some question his brutal methods. As the Doctor encourages them to wonder, is freedom to be had at any price? Even that of sanity, or life itself? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This is an exceptionally violent Who book, taking the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria and dropping them into a vicious colonial conflict which is pretty clearly based on the Indonesian conquest of West Papua. This amount of sex and gore isn't really my thing (and seems wel out of place for a Who novel of the black and white era), but I found it a compelling read none the less - clearly the author is passionate about the setting (one of the more miserably botched decolonisations of the 1960s) and the story is tightly plotted and well told with compelling guest characters. Not yer typical Who novel, and not necessarily in a bad way. ( )