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Subject:      Managra:  review by the happy-once-again guy
From:         gaffney@pcnet.com (Sean Gaffney)
Date:         1995/10/15
Message-Id:   <45pr9h$2m3@pcnet2.pcnet.net>
Newsgroups:   rec.arts.drwho
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Review of Managra follows.....

SPOILERS!!!!

Well, after three in a row where I wasn't so happy, I finally get a book I can
enthuse over.  Managra is wonderful!  Fantastic!  A week with nine Friday nights!
(A shiny penny to anyone who spots that reference.)

This book totally captures the spirit of the Doctor Who shows, neither being too
comical (Bucephalus) or too serious (Millenial Rites) or too stupid (Evolution).

In fact, Evolution came out one year previously, and I think the difference shows.
Tom Baker's Doctor is allowed to be both funny and alien, Sarah interacts brilliantly
with Byron.  The Michael York refs are hilarious...

I find it much more difficult to go on about something I really like.  So:  funny, exciting,
horrifying at times (the climax, truly an anagram in itself).

Geez, I need a book I don't like.  This is all I have to say.

10/10.

--Sean Gaffney
--next:  due to a shipping error, Millenial Rites before Head Games

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