Book Club: Sick Building

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Time for another book! We are going to read together Sick Building

Please discuss below - no need to finish it first, discuss as you go along but please add spoiler tags!

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I listened to this and thought that it was a fun little book. I thought that the new characters worked great and the setting was kind of cool.

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Sick Building has all the hallmarks of a Paul Magrs story: it’s bizarre, funny, and has some genuinely heartfelt character work done in the wildest way possible. I had a lot of fun with it

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I’ve read about half of the book so far. Quite fun! Love the setting and the robot characters. It has a slightly comedic tone and occasionally feels like Beauty and the Beast. I’m going to need something lighthearted to recover from last night, so I’m going to continue reading it today.

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Sick Building is my favourite of the NSAs I’ve read (surprise, surprise!). It’s an easy, light read and a lot of fun!

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Never read any of the NSAs, only heard them on audiobook lol

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I have read the 15th Doctor ones but have listened to all the others that I have read.

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I’ve got 10th Doctor novels vol 3 on cd and The Resurrection Casket on cd too

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The Resurrection Casket is another good one! It has similar vibes to this one.

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Here’s my (very brief) review of Sick Building.

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Just finished this and thought it was a lot of fun. A very Magrs book(postive) and loved Barbara and Toaster

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Okay, this was fun! Paul Magrs is a writer who sometimes works for me and sometimes doesn’t, but this one is definitely one of his better stories. It’s an imaginative and fast-paced adventure that is part Dune and part Beauty and the Beast, and it’s the sort of story that we could’ve never seen on TV back in the day.

Sick Building is one of the weirder and more memorable NSAs. Paul Magrs fuses biting satire with kitchen-sink science fiction, delivering a story that skewers consumerism, questions the value of artificial perfection, and pits the Doctor against killer ottomans and space tapeworms in equal measure. While some ideas get lost in the chaos and the resolution veers into toilet humour, it’s also packed with personality, heart, and imagination. Like Dreamhome itself, it may be a bit much at times, but it’s hard not to admire its design.

You’re welcome to read my full review below (spoilers hidden):

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I hope the building gets better

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You have to read it to find out :wink:

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