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| Doctor Who: Sick Building (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Paul Magrs
Publisher: Random House UK
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 75605
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1846072697
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781846072697
ASIN: 1846072697
Publication Date: September 20, 2007
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Product Description
Tiermann's World: a planet covered in wintry woods and roamed by sabre-toothed tigers and other savage beasts. The Doctor is here to warn Professor Tiermann, his wife and their son that a terrible danger is on its way. The Tiermanns live in luxury, in a fantastic, futuristic, fully-automated Dreamhome, under an impenetrable force shield. But that won't protect them from the Voracious Craw. A gigantic and extremely hungry alien creature is heading remorselessly towards their home. When it gets there everything will be devoured. Can they get away in time? With the force shield cracking up, and the Dreamhome itself deciding who should or should not leave, things are looking desperate...
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 Silly building December 29, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The new line of Doctor Who books are meant to be juvenile-friendly stories. No problem. I'm a big kid. However, juvenile-friendly sometimes translates into silly. In Sick Building, we have a giant, planet-sucking blob, a house that's gone crazy, and a vending machine with a bit of a crush on the Doctor. The threat never really seems all that threatening, perhaps because the solutions are, well, silly: the Doctor doing a one-man (and two-machine) cover of Bohemian Rhapsody to sooth the savage beast (OK, I chuckled at that); and an ending that involves a lot of soda pop and a very loud PA system.
Heaped on top of the silliness is a cliched arrogant genius serving as the antagonist. He's just not interesting enough, and far too predictable, to drive the story.
There are good points, though. Paul Magrs has a solid writing style and he does a decent job of voicing the Doctor and Martha. He sets up a nicely awkward relationship between Martha and the teenage boy, Solin, who is unusually mature and direct in expressing his interest in Martha. And the Doctor teaming up with a rag-tag assemblage of intelligent household goods, called Servo-furnishings, is rather sweet and very Doctor-ish.
 well worth the read, 4 stars December 9, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The author does a wonderful job capturing the Doctor and Martha's characters in this book. There are references to past episodes, Rose, and the Doctor sings Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen to scare away a monster. That scene alone made the book for me. :-) I enjoyed the book a lot, and I think it's one of the better tie-in novels I've read.
Might be worth it December 30, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this book in two days (half one day, half the next) and was not thrilled during the entire event. I do not feel as though I wasted my time reding this but I did not gain anything from it either. The ideas are very juvenile (I know, I know, it's for kids) and the premise was predictable. The villian was a gasbag and the most interesting character (Solin) had a rather small role in the whole affair.
It's a quick read and for that I was thankful.
 Not Very Good July 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The concept for this story was great, and very old series like. A small group of people, an insane machine, an imminent threat, time running out.
But what happened? A mess, that's what. Perhaps the most jarring thing was the sugary sweet 'disaster averted in the last 5 minutes' ending, which need not have happened. Since the surviving characters were about to escape, they could have left the planet to be destroyed, but some silly Deus Ex Machina plot came along to drive off the monster.
The Doctor and Martha don't get much to do here, in fact nothing much happens at all. The antagonists are pretty dull, and the supporting characters are dull and/or silly. Really, a vending machine and a sun bed?
This story suffers from poor pacing, coincidental chances and a vanishing villain. It is not explained why the mad computer vanishes, it's kind of just ignored.
I didn't like this story. Just because a story is written for a younger audience doesn't mean it should have a bad plot and characters. I've liked several of these new adventures (Sting of the Zygon for example), but this one just didn't do it for me at all. What's worse, there was a lot of potential here.
 book review February 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great quick read i really enjoyed this book It was like watching an episode of Doctor Who. Can't wait for season four to come out on dvd.
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