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That's actually where I got them from. I loved Lungbarrow and was rather confused by Human Nature, but I haven't had the time to get through any of the others.

I've just finished reading "The Also People". I really liked it; there were some funny one-liners and situations and the death toll wasn't particularly high for a change smile

I also read "Strange England". How true is the title. A very weird book. Intriguing and interesting and occasionally gruesome, but very strange.

I'm down to 14 New Adventures to get...

DW

You must give us a run-down of the Top Ten. Or possibly the 5 best and the 5 worst.

I can say the two I hate and won't be keeping once the collection is complete:

Falls the Shadow - a very weird book with two practically omnipotent evil beings causing chaos, death & mayhem, about which the Doctor & his companions appear to be able to do nothing.

Parasite - another weird book involving nasty parasites infesting various members of the Doctor's entourage and also sowing death and destruction.

Both very depressing books.

I love Left-Handed Hummingbird, although it's quite bittersweet. Blood Harvest is good and features Romana. Love & War is a great story, but again can be depressing. Head Games is cool cos Mel turns up again. And there are loads more...

I'm down to 12 now, or will be when my latest eBay purchases turn up...

DW

There are a few arcs. There's the Timewyrm series and the Cat's Cradle series (right at the beginning). Andrew Cartmel did three in particular that occur at different points in the series - Warhead, Warlock & Warchild. Death & Diplomacy is followed by Happy Endings and I think there's another I don't have. Birthright & Iceberg are set at the same time.

Other than that, you can dip into the series pretty well, I think. A book may reference past events in the series, but not too much. It's confusing if you leap about the series, though, because there are different companions and Ace comes & goes. You also have the companions' differing degrees of distrust of the Doctor as he plays whatever cosmic strategy he's up to...

I don't think it's as bad as the Eighth Doctor, although I haven't followed many of his books. I tend to wonder what on earth is going on in some of those, although generally I go with the flow smile

I still love Reckless Engineering for being set in Bristol biggrin

DW

PS: I haven't read Dalek Invasion, I'm afraid. The only older ones I've read are Doctor Who & the Daleks and the Wheel In Space. The latter really creeped me out, although I hear the realisation on-screen was pretty rubbish!

I had a somewhat small and patchy collection of the old Target novelizations, mostly purchased from a comic shop I found that had them lying about unsold for years. I especially liked some of the 7th Doctor ones because the authors took the opportunity to expand on the televised story. And those Alister Pearson covers were awesome! (...well, mostly. He did make several crap covers too)

As for the New Adventures, I think I had an intact run from #1-25 (Timewyrm: Genesis thru Legacy). Although many of them had interesting ideas, I generally didn't like the tone of many of the stories, which didn't really match the flavor of the TV series. That... and some were just too laden with continuity references to the point where it became a distraction. Off-hand, I seem to remember really liking Timewyrm: Exodus (or whichever was the one with Nazis) and Left-handed Hummingbird.

I have one of the Doctor Who books, it's called World Game by Terrance Dicks and it has the second Doctor in it. 'Tis a very good book so far, I love it.

I quit reading them after the Ancestor Cell arc. That was really dumb. I was just buying Past Doctor books...& then they stopped putting them out! scream