These things can mesh instead of mush - see, for example, Alien - but this book seems a little too self-conscious of its genre conventions to really get you into the head of the protagonist where you need to be to make that work, at least if you're me. It wasn't The DOOM Comic of yore ( comic reading link, youtube dramatic reading), of course, which is and always will be the DOOM adaptation against which all others must be compared, and I think that where it missed most of its mark was that, unlike the comic, the book tried to take the 'oh noes, demons are invading our space station' concept in a semi-realistic way - which meant that this was basically the novelization of the protagonist's trauma and mental breakdown mushed awkwardly with the demands of the plot that the protagonist blow a lot of demons the fuck up.

It wasn't The DOOM Comic of yore ( comic reading link, youtube dramatic reading), of course, which is and always will be the DOOM adaptation against which all others must be compared, and I think that where it missed most of its mark was that, unlike the comic, the b The chief amusement of this book was that it made me nostalgic for all of that time that I wasted as a teenager playing the game on which this book is based - but hey, it was an awesome game, so, y'know, I enjoyed reading this a lot. The chief amusement of this book was that it made me nostalgic for all of that time that I wasted as a teenager playing the game on which this book is based - but hey, it was an awesome game, so, y'know, I enjoyed reading this a lot.

Knee deep in doot