Doc Savage: Skull Island

[MouthForWar]

So king_ghidorah brought this to my attention via Facebook.

What the hell is this and when did it happen and how did we miss it?



http://www.amazon.com/Doc-Savage-Island ... doc+savage

[RaymondBurr]

This year marks the 80th anniversary of both Doc Savage and King Kong. It's awesome to see them together!

The only thing that could make it better? FU MANCHU (who celebrates his 100th anniversary this year!).

[king_ghidorah]

[mbozzo]

[MouthForWar]

So uh... did anyone actually read this?

[RaymondBurr]

I'm reading it now and am about half way through. I've not read any other Doc Savage stories, so I can't comment on it's faithfulness to the Savage-verse, but I believe that the author William Murray is well regarded by the Doc Savage fan community.

My other experience with pulp/adventure yarns are the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, which I really enjoy. So far, "Doc Savage: Skull Island" fits the adventure yarn mold pretty well. Manly adventure in exotic parts of the world, exploration, danger, head-hunters, blow guns, dinosaurs, etc. The dialogue is a little stilted, that may be a function of the character's themselves, who I am unfamiliar with, or perhaps an aspect of pulp fiction more generally. Skull Island feels a little unfamilar, but I think that is due in part to this book being envisioned as a sort-of sequel to Joe DeVito's "Kong: King of Skull Island" (which is how they secured the rights for such a project). Even so, I am enjoying the book quite a bit. It's a fun adventure story, and the anticipation of Kong's arrival is really great, I haven't felt this way in a long time when reading genre fiction.