|
Post by legios on Sept 2, 2013 19:34:45 GMT
I didn't originally intend to marathon it but I had it on my iPad on the way back from my mothers at Christmas and due to an unscheduled long delay on the train I ended up getting through the last three parts in a sitting, and it was well worth doing that way.
Karl
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Sept 2, 2013 20:50:18 GMT
I am beginning to wonder what is happening with Dark Eyes II. It was announced a few weeks after the first one came out and still no pre-order or details almost a year later!
-Ralph
|
|
Dave
Empty
Posts: 1,811
|
Post by Dave on Sept 3, 2013 9:11:13 GMT
Hadn't realised it had been so long, but yep, very strange. I'm hoping they'll announce something after The Light at the End comes out, but even if they do I guess it'll be a while until we get to hear it.
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2013 21:11:02 GMT
If the delay turned out to be because BF were told they can't use the 8th Doc for a while due to a surprise tv appearance on the 23rd November that would tickle me pink. No evidence for this! Just a pipe dream!
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Sept 14, 2013 13:27:49 GMT
There's loads of Target audiobooks on Amazon for 6.50 each. Anyone want to recommend some? or note ones to steer clear of? I really want The Gunfighters, but the clip I heard of it put me right off!
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2013 13:32:50 GMT
Anything read by Chesterton is great. Avoid The Twin Dilemma, Black Orchid or Shada. Anything read by Geoffrey Beevers is good as is Daleks Masterplan. Androids of Tara is fun, The Myth Makers is awful.
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Sept 14, 2013 13:39:02 GMT
Anything read by Chesterton is great. Avoid The Twin Dilemma, Black Orchid or Shada. Anything read by Geoffrey Beevers is good as is Daleks Masterplan. Androids of Tara is fun, The Myth Makers is awful. -Ralph Hmm I really enjoyed Twin Dilemma, and I like Myth Makers so much it is the one I recommend to people :c
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2013 13:54:51 GMT
I have never heard an audio book as bad as The Myth Makers. Terrible book, terrible overly arch reading. 4 hours of my life gone forever.
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Sept 14, 2013 14:20:27 GMT
I have never heard an audio book as bad as The Myth Makers. Terrible book, terrible overly arch reading. 4 hours of my life gone forever. -Ralph I thought that was Ghost Light
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Sept 14, 2013 14:24:58 GMT
Oh Ghost Light is worse. I had blanked that from my mind!
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Sept 24, 2013 22:34:50 GMT
BF tweeted that Dark Eyes 2 is recording this week. Hooray!
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by legios on Sept 25, 2013 19:17:45 GMT
With my being off, and not having stirred that much from the house as a result, I am getting back to the Target Audios (I find listening is something I can do even when my attention span is not really up to TV or books). Halfway through The Aztecs at the moment - absolutely marvellous stuff, the Target book was always good, but having William Russell read it really does it justice. He has everyones verbal mannerisms down pat so that even though he doesn't sound like Hartnell, when he does Hartnell's lines it is unmistakably Hartnell's Doctor delivering them.
(I love the Aztecs, danger, peril and narry a space monster in sight - just the dangers of history threatening our travellers). Probably finish it tomorrow I expect, ration it out and give me something to look forward to.
Karl
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Sept 25, 2013 19:37:48 GMT
I found Russell's reading of the book to be genuinely as thrilling as the tv serial.
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by legios on Sept 26, 2013 20:14:57 GMT
Yep. It is a marvelous reading. there is so much urgency where it is needed, and an earnestness to the scenes with the High Priests. Absolutely brilliant stuff.
Karl
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 13, 2013 8:41:18 GMT
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Oct 13, 2013 10:01:43 GMT
Oh wow, those are some good prices, it's a shame I have most of them already! I will be picking up the second doctor box set and the McCoy ones (apart from Thin Ice). I agree with Ralph, the first doctor boxset is amazing, and at that price, a complete steal.
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 13, 2013 14:31:42 GMT
Audiogo's website has been knackered of late so by way of apology they are now running a 3 for 2 offer on all downloads.
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by legios on Oct 15, 2013 18:49:19 GMT
I have snagged the First Doctor boxed set, been meaning to pick it up for a while as the idea of Ian encountering Alexander fascinates me, and at that price I couldn't say no.
Karl.
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 15, 2013 18:51:09 GMT
Good man!
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Oct 16, 2013 17:50:29 GMT
I am listening to Prison in Space. Like most of the Lost Stories that Big Finish have done, I am stoked that they did it, but uh... yeah.
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 16, 2013 17:56:50 GMT
I thought it was an excellent production of something that should never have existed!
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2013 15:11:30 GMT
On a tangent, I got round to listening to Big Finish's version of Treasure Island, featuring Lord Tom as Long John Silver. Lovely light and frothy adaptation with a very hummable tune. Recommended.
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Oct 17, 2013 19:26:28 GMT
Just finished Prison in Space.
WELL THAT WAS A THING, WASNT IT?
It was very close to getting made too, wasn't it? I'm glad Big Finish did it, even more glad it didnt' get made for tv!
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2013 19:43:11 GMT
Had it been made for TV, we would have fervently wished those episodes had been wiped!
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Oct 17, 2013 20:04:24 GMT
Had it been made for TV, we would have fervently wished those episodes had been wiped! -Ralph If it had been made for tv, odds are that those episodes would have been the only ones that survived. Oh well, onto the rest of the McCoy season 27. T-that's good, right??
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 17, 2013 20:08:18 GMT
No, it's all awful!
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 23, 2013 17:55:06 GMT
BF's 50th anniversary story is out and their website keeps going down. Not able to access it all here!
-Ralph
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Oct 23, 2013 18:09:41 GMT
BF's 50th anniversary story is out and their website keeps going down. Not able to access it all here! -Ralph Wait, it is?? I thought that was out in Nov!!
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 23, 2013 18:21:29 GMT
Early release has started and sadly coincided with their website going KABLOOEY!
Andy
|
|
|
Post by blueshift on Oct 23, 2013 18:30:44 GMT
Early release has started and sadly coincided with their website going KABLOOEY! Andy That'll teach me to put off pre-ordering
|
|