Because we all love the story of DOOM

[ThumbBot]

I have this old DOOM novel (printed in 1995) lying around. I forgot who gave it to me. It was Doug. He gave this to me two years ago for an Idle Words column, but I never actually wrote about it. I'm a bad person.

Here's what it says on the back.

"DOOM is the videogame phenomenon that forever changed the home entertainment medium. KNEE-DEEP IN THE DEAD is the first in a series of brand new novels that go beyond the original electronic masterpiece to create an all-new science fiction universe, epic in scope and all too-terrifyingly real..."

Should I read this book? YOU DECIDE. Post your votes in the comments. Also, you may request a random page and I will post its most captivating lines.

Posted by Marek Bronstring

[Spaff]

page 132 please.
also - read it!

[Kolzig]

Hell yeah you should read it. It might even turn out to be the best written science fiction book ever.
I mean it is DooM after all, is there anything more captivating than DooM.

I don't know if I remember correctly but didn't you once openly promise to read that book, in an Idle Words column or in the forums. I just have this haunting thought in my head that keeps saying you promised to read it.

Post the best lines from the page 66, please.

[lobotomy42]

It can't possibly be as good as the Castlevania novel written by someone who apparently never played the game or even read the instruction manual. Man, I need to find my copy of THAT. It was about a kid who played Castlevania until the VIDEO GAME BECAME REAL and vampires attacked New York or something...

Oh, and yes, you should read it.

[Marek]

page 132:

During the precious seconds I used to save myself from whoever was playing sniper, the last demon charged like a runaway bulldozer. I turned to find myself staring in a meter-wide maw. I thought I knew what a bad smell was before that moment. A square mile of human cesspool might come close. The odor was so bad it was like a weapon. My eyes watered so I could hardly see.

And later:

page 132:

My eyes were filled with stinking monster blood.

Moving on... Corporal Flynn Taggart discovers a batterylike object in a backpack, which turns out to be a small type of rocket.

page 66:

I had seen one in a UAC weapons demo video when they were trying to sell it to the Pentagon. (We didn't buy it--I wish we had!) Yeah, these were special little babies, all right. But no one from Fox Company had been carrying any rocket launchers. This kind of ordinance was for desert fighting. Where had this rocket come from?

Where had this rocket come from?!??

[hermes]

hahahaaa

You have to read it all - and please, goodies from page 97...

[Marek]

Oh man, I shit you not:

page 97:

If there were a red key card anywhere on this level, I was a purple-assed baboon. I didn't become a Marine to put up with this crap.

He then uses the rocket launcher to blast down the door.

[eljay]

My vote is for you to read it aloud and record it, the next podcast can be a book on tape.

Or maybe each subsequent podcast can contain an excerpt from it >_<

( read it! page 30)

[Marek]

That's a shit page Lawrence. Why did you have to pick that one.

page 30:

One night we got so drunk that we fumbled our way into a kiss. It just didn't feel right. We were buddies, not lovers.

Romantic subplot:

[Redwall]

Woah, was the Doom marine gay? Or was his buddy female?

[Spaff]

"you and he were... buddies.. weren't you?"
New idle blog is better than ever.

I also agree with the podcast idea, pick some pages and we will hold a vote on them, the winning page will be read by Eggerton Eggerton Green.

Go, pick some pages: first 5 go in the poll, if the winning page is reallly boring, then we veto it

[n0wak]

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts...842639,00.html

Marshall McLuhan, the guru of The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), recommends that the browser turn to page 69 of any book and read it. If you like that page, buy the book. It works.

So, uh, even though you already have it... page 69!

[miffy495]

I also want some podcast excerpts. Bring 'em on!

Page 113 please.

[ysbreker]

hells yeah! Read the book! Do the podcast! And show me the goods from page 321 (How many pages does the book have anyway?)

[JoeX111]

lobotomy42:

It can't possibly be as good as the Castlevania novel written by someone who apparently never played the game or even read the instruction manual. Man, I need to find my copy of THAT. It was about a kid who played Castlevania until the VIDEO GAME BECAME REAL and vampires attacked New York or something...

I bought that for a friend of mine a few years ago as a gag gift!

I never read it, but I did once open it randomly to a page and saw the line, "'I see you,' said the giant eyeball."

[Rodi]

Yeah, read it! And an excerpt from page 42, please.

[miffy495]

Y'know, we could make him read the whole book if we just start suggesting pages sequentially. "Read page 1! Now 2!" etc. He's like our puppet now.

[Duncan]

I don't have a page request but I have to say that this:

One night we got so drunk that we fumbled our way into a kiss. It just didn't feel right. We were buddies, not lovers.

is absolutely the funniest thing posted in this thread. Good call Lawrence.

[Aussie Ben]

I like that it took not one, but two people to write this book with an unknown amount of pages!