05.06.2009 в 15:46
Пишет Св.:Иногда я читаю книги по вселенной Доктора Кто
Те, которые официальные. Ниже - аннотации и мои комментарии к трем книгам с участием дрим-тим. Комментарии субъективные, аннотации и цитаты на английском The Deviant Strain - официальная аннотация, мои комментарии и одна цитатаThe Deviant Strain
Официальная аннотация: The Novrosk Peninsula: the Soviet naval base has been abandoned, the nuclear submarines are rusting and rotting. Cold, isolated, forgotten. Until the Russian Special Forces arrive – and discover that the Doctor and his companions are here too.
But there is something else in Novrosk. Something that predates even the stone circle on the cliff top. Something that is at last waking, hunting, killing…
Can the Doctor and his frieds stay alive long enough to learn the truth? With time running out, they must discover who is really responsible for the Deviant Strain…
Featuring the Doctor as played by Christopher Eccleston, together with Rose and Captain Jack as played by Billie Piper and John Barrowman in the hit series from BBC Television.
Цитата:
Bullets cracked across the roadway. [The Doctor] could almost hear her snarls of rage. His lungs were bursting, while the icy air was making his cheeks sting and his ears burn. ‘Next time,’ he gasped, ‘smaller ears. Definitely.’
В целом книга воспринимается как-то странненько. Дрим-тим бегает преимущественно по отдельности - вообще в книгах они чаще разделяются, чем в фильмах. Доктор ведет себя как обычно, Роза влипает в неприятности и выпутывается из них практически самостоятельно - Доктор или Джек обычно появляются, когда она уже со всем справилась, и помогают разобраться с мелочами. Джек строит русских солдат и проявляет неожиданную нерациональную человечность, неоднократно вытаскивая из беды пострадавшую от Проблемы до полной безмозглости (буквально) девушку. Сюжет так себе. Одного из главных злыдней я отгадала, как только он появился. Остальное тоже было довольно-таки предсказуемо. И вообще, нервирует меня русско-советский антураж...
Only Human - официальная аннотация, мои комментарии и цитаты под катом
Only Human
Официальная аннотация: Somebody’s interfering with time. The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack arrive on modern-day Earth to find the culprit – and discover a Neanderthal Man, twenty-eight thousand years after his race became extinct. Only a trip back to the primeval dawn of humanity can solve the mystery.
Who are the mysterious humans from the distant future now living in that distant past? What hideous monsters are trying to escape from behind the Grey Door? Is Rose going to end up married to a caveman?
Caught between three very different types of human being – past, present and future – the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack must learn the truth behind the Osterberg experiment before the monstrous Hy-Bractors escape to change humanity’s history forever…
Featuring the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack as played by Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper and John Barrowman in the hit series from BBC Television.
Цитаты:
‘Slight change of plan,’ said the Doctor. He turned to Jack. ‘Rose and I are gonna need a distraction. Got one?’
Jack thought for a second and nodded. ‘Oh yeah, I’ve got a distraction. Never fails. One of the biggest distractions you’ll ever see.’
‘Great,’ said the Doctor. He then turned to Rose and she followed him as he crossed the road to the hospital. He shouted back over his shoulder to Jack, ‘Give us five minutes – and distract!’
[...]
The Doctor and Rose turned on their heels and started back the other way. Rose flicked a glance at her watch. ‘Where’s that distraction?’
Suddenly there was a commotion up ahead at the main doors. There were shrieks and, strangely, a few howls of what sounded to Rose like embarrassed laughter. For a moment she couldn’t see what was going on. Then Captain Jack burst through the crowd, whooping wildly, totally naked.
Rose turned her head away automatically, before risking a peek back. Jack was now sprinting for one of the lifts, just as the door was closing. The soldier on duty at the staircase ran to stop him, joining the general scramble through the stunned crowd.
Rose looked at the floor. ‘For shame,’ she muttered, though she couldn’t help smiling at the captain’s nerve.
The Doctor gave a hoot of laughter. ‘Nah, that’s not the biggest distraction I’ve ever seen.’ Then he grabbed Rose’s arm, shouting, ‘Come on! Run!’
(Из записей Джека)
I miss those two. When the TARDIS pops up tomorrow it’s gonna be all I can do not to run in and give them both a smacker on the lips. Life with the Doctor and Rose is the best you’re gonna get.
Сама по себе книга любопытная. Намешано много всего - противостояние людей и неандертальцев, обдолбанные люди из будущего, совершенно идиотский, ИМХО, план очередного мегаломаньяка... Роза проявляет поразительное спокойствие (поразительное не для нее, а для любого человека вообще).
Но досадно то, что Доктор с Розой отвалили приключаться, а Джека бросили в 21 веке воспитывать неандертальца. Поэтому в сюжете он почти не участвует. Как они могли не пустить Джека в организацию, где работают исключительно идеально красивые люди?
И вообще, хочется Джека побольше.The Stealers of Dreams - официальная аннотация, цитата и мои комментарии
The Stealers of Dreams
Официальная аннотация: In the far future, the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack find a world on which fiction has been outlawed. A world where it’s a crime to tell stories, a crime to lie, a crime to hope, and a crime to dream. But now somebody is challenging the status quo. A pirate TV station urges people to fight back. And the Doctor wants to help – until he sees how easily dreams can turn into nightmares. With one of his companions stalked by shadows and the other committed to an asylum, the Doctor is forced to admit that fiction can be dangerous after all. Though perhaps it is not as deadly as the truth…
Featuring the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack as played by Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper and John Barrowman in the hit series from BBC Television.
Цитата:
‘Tell me something: was I clever?’
The question threw Rose. ‘Eh?’
‘When I brought you here. Was I clever?’
‘You weren’t… I mean, he wasn’t…’
‘Real. I know, yeah. But was I clever? That version of me, in your head – was I resourceful and witty and charming and handsome?’
For the first time, a hint of a smile – a genuine smile – broke through her awkwardness. ‘Bit full of yourself, aren’t you?’
‘Bit full of yourself.’
‘I don’t get it.’
‘Pat yourself on the back, Rose Tyler – cos all that cleverness and resourcefulness and that wit and that charm, it came from inside you.’
‘And the handsome?’
‘Well…’ said the Doctor, with a modest shrug.
And Rose remembered how to laugh.
На первый взгляд - классическая антиутопия в духе Эквилибриума, с промыванием мозгов и ликвидацией фантазии; на самом деле интересный сюжет, который несколько раз оборачивается не тем, что ожидаешь. Много активной Розы и - наконец-то! - много активного Джека, хотя он все равно на втором плане по сравнению с Розой и Доктором. Вообще от этих трех книг у меня ощущение, что главный герой все-таки Роза, но может, это субъективное восприятие. Замечу в скобках, что Розу как персонажа я люблю.
Скачать книги: The Deviant Strain, Only Human, The Stealers of Dreams. Если кому-то нужны другие книги по Доктору Кто, скажите, я пришлю или залью. Или скачайте сами с торрентов, на mininova.org. (Книг по Торчвуду в электронке у меня нет, сама хочу ужасно
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@темы: Companions, Novels, New Who, Doctor #9, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness