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| Doctor Who: Sick Building (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) | 
| Author: Paul Magrs
Publisher: Random House UK
Category: Book
List Price: $11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 445488
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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 Silly building December 29, 2007
3 out of 3 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
2 out of 3 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.
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