Stella Gibbons "Cold Comfort Farm"; it mentions none of her other works—while providing her "bêtes noires" Morgan and Mary Webb with full entries. To Gibbons, "Cold Comfort Farm" became "That Book" or "You-Know-What", its title never mentioned. Despite her growing irritation and expressed distaste for it, the book continued to be lauded by successive generations of critics, Boston described it as "one of those rare books of comic genius that imprints itself on the brain and can never afterwards be eradicated". A more negative view of the book has been expressed by the literary critic Mary Beard, who considers it "a rather
Doom (novel series) Marine Corps, although the perspective changes from character to character in the second and third novel. On February 26, 2008, the series was rebooted and restarted in the vein of "Doom 3". The first book, "", was written by Matthew Costello, the original writer for "Doom 3", and released by Pocket Star Books. The book stars Special Ops Marine Lieutenant John Kane in the year 2145. The second in the series, "", was released on March 31, 2009 and shares the same author and publisher. The primary protagonist and narrator of the series, Corporal Flynn "Fly" Taggart is a member