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Final GarbAugust Notes:
Applied to Bingo Card Prompt: Killer Animals
Assessment: This was a re-read. Though it is formula Doctor Who plotting, Baxendale's novels were usually a cut above in the Horror dept.. As far as killer animals go, I relied on dim memories that the wasps actually killed someone...and things (morbidly) took care of themselves on that front. Only a few Bingo Card squares left to fill.

The Killer Animals Prompt for GarbAugust has, for the record, been satisfied. (Well, I have to finish the book, I guess, to make it legal.)

Hah! The Doctor quoted one of James Bond's lines from the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service - a line about a butterfly. It makes me think of 2001; did I recognize that line from the movie back then? I must have been an OHMSS fan by 2001...but I don't think I owned a copy of the film for watching over and over again, with my near-eidetic memory at work. I don't remember, uh, remembering the line. But THIS time...!

I've often thought of reading all my Doctor Who novels, or Perry Rhodan novels, again - but my focus is mainly on new experiences in reading, and the amount of time I would be spending on books already read is a major off-putter. Add to that, the Virgin Books Doctor Who line feature a number of books that threaten to come apart if I go back to them (cheap glue?). So the occasional re-visitation is how it is.

For GarbAugust’s Killer Animals Prompt, if no one dies in Food of the Gods (comics version), or I go to this first. This was not a particularly significant Doctor Who novel, but I remember it being quite fun, with those alien bounty hunters n’ all. Or were they assassins? Anyway, the Doctor has some fun with one of their devices. And Baxendale offerings tend to have Horror elements.