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 Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:58 am
Its.Me.Pippin! fredwise I've read a few, I found them rather easy to come by (before the new series started again), in the school library. Now, everyone's borrowed them. I've read Grave Matter (6th), Dying in the Sun (2nd), Earthworld (8th), Feast of the Drowned (10th), The Stone Rose (10th), The Ressurection Casket (10th), The Monsters Inside (9th). At least these are the ones that I remember reading.
The doctor reminds me more of the 2nd doc rather than the 10th though confused Well, it was written about 2 weeks after the Christmas Invasion! Maybe they didn't get enough of a feel for the character. I read that in a review of that book in a magazine earlier, you didn't write it did you?
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 11:06 am
fredwise Its.Me.Pippin! fredwise I've read a few, I found them rather easy to come by (before the new series started again), in the school library. Now, everyone's borrowed them. I've read Grave Matter (6th), Dying in the Sun (2nd), Earthworld (8th), Feast of the Drowned (10th), The Stone Rose (10th), The Ressurection Casket (10th), The Monsters Inside (9th). At least these are the ones that I remember reading.
The doctor reminds me more of the 2nd doc rather than the 10th though confused Well, it was written about 2 weeks after the Christmas Invasion! Maybe they didn't get enough of a feel for the character. I read that in a review of that book in a magazine earlier, you didn't write it did you?
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:59 am
Of the Doctor Who books I've read, I think that Prime Time (7th Doctor) and Imperial Moon (5th Doctor) are my favourites. I also read Corpes Marker (4th Doctor), since it followed on from Robots of Death (one of my all time favourite episodes), but found it rather disappointing.
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:43 am
The 3rd Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith book "Amorality Tale" was great.
I am also quite fond of the 6th Doctor and Peri in "Players" and the Missing Adventure with the 5th Doctor, Tegan, and Nyssa "Goth Opera.'
And so many more!
I own a whole library worth of Who novels, but they crank them out faster than I can buy them! pirate
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:07 pm
Corpse_Marker I own a whole library worth of Who novels, but they crank them out faster than I can buy them! pirate I just never got around to reading most of mine (or got half way through and started reading something else, always a bad idea).
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:00 pm
Smigg-the-Miserable I just never got around to reading most of mine (or got half way through and started reading something else, always a bad idea). Since I read between 5 and 10 books at a time, it takes me a bit as well. Eventually they all get read.....and if I really like the book, I'll read it again. pirate
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:28 am
I'm always looking for good 2nd Doctor books but they keep making them so mean and scary and unpleasant.
One GREAT one I read was Heart Of TARDIS which has the 2nd and 4th Doctors in. The plot is almost meaningless but it's just one big sci fi spoof all the way through (which I actually thought would be terrible) and I kept laughing out loud (which isn't a good idea in a bookshop...). I just love some of the little scenes, especially the Doctor and Victoria talking in the "hotel". And Victoria actually sounds smart too.
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:55 pm
Roobarb I'm always looking for good 2nd Doctor books but they keep making them so mean and scary and unpleasant. One GREAT one I read was Heart Of TARDIS which has the 2nd and 4th Doctors in. The plot is almost meaningless but it's just one big sci fi spoof all the way through (which I actually thought would be terrible) and I kept laughing out loud (which isn't a good idea in a bookshop...). I just love some of the little scenes, especially the Doctor and Victoria talking in the "hotel". And Victoria actually sounds smart too. Well, life is mean and scary and unpleasant most of the time, so why not have the Doctor slapped in the middle of it? In fact, I prefer those kinds of stories. "Combat Rock" was great, IMO. I also like stories where it is the Doctor's fault that bad things happen. Brings him down a notch to show that he makes mistakes as well.
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:11 pm
I've read "Lungbarrow" and "Human Nature" which were both a little odd, since they involved the Seventh Doctor, and I only saw half of one of his serials.
"Lungbarrow" was really entertaining, although a bit scattered. It definately would have worked better as a screen play.
"Human Nature" seemed to go a bit crazy at the end. The climax is really strange, with a lot of explosions and death. Explosions are alright, but death is really rather forgein to Doctor Who media.
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:44 am
Star_Lily I've read "Lungbarrow" and "Human Nature" which were both a little odd, since they involved the Seventh Doctor, and I only saw half of one of his serials. "Lungbarrow" was really entertaining, although a bit scattered. It definately would have worked better as a screen play. "Human Nature" seemed to go a bit crazy at the end. The climax is really strange, with a lot of explosions and death. Explosions are alright, but death is really rather forgein to Doctor Who media. You can read those and a few other for FREE here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/index.shtml
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:54 am
Corpse_Marker Well, life is mean and scary and unpleasant most of the time, so why not have the Doctor slapped in the middle of it? Oh I don't mind death in Doctor Who stories. And generally I don't mind violence... with any of the other Doctors. It's just that most of the 2nd Doctor stories I've read I can't ever imagine happening to him or Jamie or Zoe. If you watch his episodes a lot of them are a lot more light hearted and even though people die there isn't much of what I kind of think of as 'torture' suffering. It's about the puzzles and the chases and the strange monsters. Of course it doesn't help that my imagination is way more vivid than TV could ever be. So maybe it's not as bad as I think. I'm just more after the sort of puzzling stories, like they had in the 2nd Doctor era, not the violent stories full of nasty people that seem more like the end of the 5th/6th Doctor era stories to me.
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:47 am
Star_Lily "Human Nature" seemed to go a bit crazy at the end. The climax is really strange, with a lot of explosions and death. Explosions are alright, but death is really rather forgein to Doctor Who media. That was one of the criticisms various folk levelled at the New Adventures in general. I think people expected them to follow the constraints of the TV series, which was of course shown pre-watershed. The authors had other ideas - not to mention you can always be more graphic in a book than onscreen. The New Adventures had an amazingly high death count, although I would probably argue that they were no higher than your average Star Trek or Star Wars novel. Mind you, I recall people dying pretty nastily in "Time and the Rani" and "Curse of Fenric". I'm pretty sure death would have been involved in "Remembrance of the Daleks", too. "Ghost Light" was being rather weird, but there were people being turned into stone as I recall. And there you have the sum total of the Seventh Doctor episodes I actually recall seeing, even though he's my favourite of the lot! DW
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:51 pm
Roobarb Corpse_Marker Well, life is mean and scary and unpleasant most of the time, so why not have the Doctor slapped in the middle of it? Oh I don't mind death in Doctor Who stories. And generally I don't mind violence... with any of the other Doctors. It's just that most of the 2nd Doctor stories I've read I can't ever imagine happening to him or Jamie or Zoe. If you watch his episodes a lot of them are a lot more light hearted and even though people die there isn't much of what I kind of think of as 'torture' suffering. It's about the puzzles and the chases and the strange monsters. Of course it doesn't help that my imagination is way more vivid than TV could ever be. So maybe it's not as bad as I think. I'm just more after the sort of puzzling stories, like they had in the 2nd Doctor era, not the violent stories full of nasty people that seem more like the end of the 5th/6th Doctor era stories to me. That's the difference between the televison shows and the novels....the budget stopped the Beeb from doing anything wacky. wink
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:50 pm
I wish they'd do more wacky books. The books need more special effects! blaugh
That said, Crooked World had a whole world full of cartoons and was quite good... I can't imagine them doing that (yet) in the TV series. All things are possible though.
EDIT: Hey, ain't you a horror fan? Of course you like all this violence and blood shed! What am I doing trying to convince you otherwise? It's an impossible task! xp
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:57 pm
Warnersister Star_Lily "Human Nature" seemed to go a bit crazy at the end. The climax is really strange, with a lot of explosions and death. Explosions are alright, but death is really rather forgein to Doctor Who media. That was one of the criticisms various folk levelled at the New Adventures in general. I think people expected them to follow the constraints of the TV series, which was of course shown pre-watershed. The authors had other ideas - not to mention you can always be more graphic in a book than onscreen. The New Adventures had an amazingly high death count, although I would probably argue that they were no higher than your average Star Trek or Star Wars novel. I was more surprised by the suddenness of the deaths than anything else. It seemed to me like a "rocks fall, everyone dies" moment. As I recall, the school got nuked (or something similar) yet most of the students survived and the nearby village is mostly unharmed.
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