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 Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:36 pm
My favorite new authors are Paul Cornell (the Virgin novels) and Kate Orman (likewise). In the old Target novelizations I liked Ian Marter's work. That's the actor who played Harry Sullivan, for those of you not so familiar with the Classic Who. And of course, Terrance Dicks. 3nodding I could count on either of them to do a good job.
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:41 pm
*cries*
I am in the US. And broke. TT^TT
Although I was lucky enough to find this little used book store with a ton of Classic DW novels, but I've only got three.. (Target)
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon - Malcolm Hulke
Doctor Who - The Time Meddler - Migel Robinson
Doctor Who - The Five Doctors (novelization)
Funnily enough, I've only read that last one. o_O
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:52 pm
Oh! Oh! I just remembered who my favorite 1st Doctor novelization author was--Donald Cotton! xd He made the Gunfighters & the Romans absolutely hilarious!
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:17 pm
Holy crap Ian Marter played Harry Sullivan? O: -totally didn't know that-
So far the only DW book I have is 'The Ark in Space' and Ian Marter's the one who wrote it! xD
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:33 pm
He had a nice, exciting style of writing, didn't he? biggrin
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Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:12 pm
He definitely did. <3 I've read that book so many time, I love it to death. It's old, so it's kept on my music stand altar in a Ziploc baggy. <3 It's in view of my bed at all times.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:04 am
Richard_Swift The books are very much for a juvenile audience now and grossly unsatisfying for anyone over the age of ten. 'Scuse me, slight quibble there. I love the Ninth and Tenth Doctor books that I've read, and I'm 23!! David's Doctor comes across as closer than Chris's, though. I've read The Clockwise Man and The Monsters Within of the Ninth Doctor ones, all the Tenth Doctor and Rose ones, and Made Of Steel, Wooden Heart and The Last Dodo of Tenth Doctor and Martha. My favourites are The Clockwise Man, The Stone Rose, The Feast Of The Drowned, The Price Of Paradise and The Last Dodo. As to classic series, I own the Target novelisation of Kinda, The Dimension Riders and Cat's Cradle: Witchmark. My favourite is Witchmark.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:14 am
The only newer books I've read is 'The Stealers Of Dreams' and I actually really liked it though the Ninth Doctor kinda disappears a lot in it and is very mysterious, more like he was at the very beginning of the new series.
It didn't read as overly 'kiddie'-ish to me... but I haven't read any other newer ones to compare.
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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:52 pm
I only have two books, and a friend is borrowing one so I'm stuck with Feast of the Drowned to read over, and over, and over. The other one is The Stone Rose, and I think that sure they could be more adult, but Doctor Who is meant to be for children as well as adults to watch. They aren't really children's books, as they have mild Doctor torture (poor 10, they won't even leave him alone in books) but they are child friendly enough that I use them to convert my little bro into a Whovian without worrying about if they're too adult for him.
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:56 am
tennantsbutterfly 'Scuse me, slight quibble there. I love the Ninth and Tenth Doctor books that I've read, and I'm 23!! Sorry, the hyperbole might just be my personal bitterness coming through. smile Throughout much of the Nineties then the novels were the ongoing series for me, and so it's been a rough ride watching them suddenly plunge in terms of sophistication and the same time the TV series came back more sophisticated than ever. I'm not anti-kid's books by any means. For example I'd say the stuff writers like Dianna Wynne Jones and Daniel Handler are doing in thier children's fiction is way more meaningful and progressive than most of what's published as adult literary fiction right now. It's just that the way the New Series Books have approached the job of 'writing for a younger auidence' is to make sure that they're safe, simple and predictable. Which is a real shame, as the Ninth and Tenth Doctors are characters so layered and complex that they'd be amazing properly explored in print. tennantsbutterfly As to classic series, I own the Target novelisation of Kinda, The Dimension Riders and Cat's Cradle: Witchmark. My favourite is Witchmark. Ooh, Witchmark's a nice little read (Might be worth a few bob too, those very early NAs can be hard to get hold of). Since you liked that, another book you might enjoy would be Paul Cornell's 'Doctor Who meets Faerie' novel The Shadows of Avalon, which has the Eigth Doctor, the Brigadier, President Romana preparing Gallifrey for the Time War and much, much more! smile
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:00 am
I'll keep an eye out for it. My copies of Witchmark and Dimension Riders are very battered though, and I woudn't part with them for the world...
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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:16 pm
i just bought and read Wooden Heart (10th Doctor) i liked it a lot, so i rad it literally 4 times in one day (buit i do that a lot) i really want to get more though, but my mum thinks tha my reading habits will make her broke, so i have to space out my purcheses
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:26 am
lemurs366 i just bought and read Wooden Heart (10th Doctor) i liked it a lot, so i rad it literally 4 times in one day (buit i do that a lot) i really want to get more though, but my mum thinks tha my reading habits will make her broke, so i have to space out my purcheses The Last Dodo is definitely worth getting if you like the Tenth Doctor and Martha. It raises some interesting points, too!
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:28 am
Richard_Swift ChrisDoc & DaveDocJust stick to the show. The books are very much for a juvenile audience now and grossly unsatisfying for anyone over the age of ten. The Paul Magrs book is a little better than the others though, since as he's a proper Children's Author in one of his three other careers he knows what he's doing. What? They're okay. Some are adult... And most 10 year olds wouln't understand any of it.
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:59 am
Possibly they are. But after you've been treated to Doctor Who novels as rich as Damaged Goods, The Blue Angel, The Room With No Doors, The Festival of Death, The Also People, The Gallifrey Chronicles and the rest, then 'okay' is very hard to take. sad Voldemort point two And most 10 year olds wouln't understand any of it. Most ten year olds, possibly. But any ten year olds of the kind likely to be reading for pleasure in the first place are probably going to find them well within their comfort zone.
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