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Post by Pinwig on Feb 6, 2014 19:39:17 GMT
I like them. I've got 1-6 and have read bits here and there, but I've been reading each story's entry as I've been watching them on my marathon. I like the alternative tongue in cheek perspective on the stories - they're a good partner for the Television Companion.
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Post by legios on Feb 6, 2014 19:47:11 GMT
Volumes 1-6 were pretty good, readable and entertaining - and often with some well-argued dissenting points of view. Volume 7 is...not. It is more like a two-by-four smacking the reader over the head and going "All the new Doctor Who sucks! It all sucks. If you like it then you are wrong" (and in fact one of the sidebar pieces comes out and says that the book thinks anyone who happens to enjoy a particular episode is stupid - in so many words. ) By the time I was halfway through the book I felt like asking the authors why they wanted to devote so much time and effort to writing about something they so evidently dislike. By the time I was three-quarters of the way through I felt like I was wading through bile. It became quite a chore tto read. Tat Wood, in my opinion, should have called it a day after he had finished up the pre-relaunch material.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 7, 2014 9:15:20 GMT
The About Time rot set in with volume 6 when it began the slide towards 'All of this is rubbish! Look how rubbish this all is! I will tell you how rubbish it is in excruciating detail! You dare not disagree! I am right!" but without the wit. A particular low point in volume 7 is when it makes very rude comments about anyone who dares think a certain episode is rubbish, resorting to infantile name calling.
-ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 14, 2014 12:57:02 GMT
Think I might need to pick up Quest for Pedler when it comes out. I've enjoyed the two Miwk books that I've read.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 14, 2014 14:27:20 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 14, 2014 23:30:12 GMT
I've read the books about JNT and the Audio Visuals and think they're a decent wee niche publisher.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 18, 2014 12:53:05 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 18, 2014 15:24:47 GMT
Great idea. I don't need yet another series guide, but there is definitely a space on my shelf for a fully detailed and cross referenced index to the DVD extras. Very useful.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 20, 2014 14:49:01 GMT
MIWK have unexpectedly found some more copies of Justyce Served.
Buy now while stocks last
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 26, 2014 7:42:34 GMT
Unsurprisingly the box of Justyce Served they found sold through really quickly.... So they're going to do a second print run.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 28, 2014 7:48:17 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Jun 28, 2014 8:05:45 GMT
Both those covers are glorious
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 28, 2014 8:38:12 GMT
Look closely at the Jumper
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 16, 2014 11:47:47 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 3, 2014 11:49:18 GMT
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Post by Dave on Aug 6, 2014 10:06:49 GMT
Just finished the previously mentioned War Doctor novel 'Engines of War'. An entertaining enough read from towards the end of the Time War that's also a sort of sequel to the Five Doctors.
I wondered how they'd get around the whole "not named the Doctor" thing and the solution is that anyone who knows of his former name still calls him that even though he no longer uses it himself (he does use "John Smith" at one point). On one occasion he talks of how he doesn't use the name, but generally he can't be bothered to correct people (which works).
I suspect that too many adventures with the War Doctor would get a bit samey but I'd be interested in a few more - perhaps including one set at a point closer in time to Night of the Doctor.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 7, 2014 14:25:05 GMT
The DVD Compendium is here :-)
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 8, 2014 22:39:50 GMT
Knickers, forgot that. Is it good? Definitely on my to buy list.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 9, 2014 5:18:57 GMT
Yeah Not bad. It's everything you'd expect it to be, albeit in alphabetical rather than story order
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 25, 2014 18:02:20 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 6, 2014 22:42:05 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2015 12:33:58 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2015 12:37:57 GMT
I'm told it's not the only one coming .....
Note it's the author's first book.
I'd hold off for now
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 14, 2015 17:47:31 GMT
Oh really, two Ainley books.
We live in a golden age!
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2015 18:05:04 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2015 19:51:38 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 25, 2015 7:44:05 GMT
The Verity Lamberts Hardcovers lasted till payday :-D
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 15, 2015 21:41:23 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 29, 2015 19:40:33 GMT
MIWK Verity Lambert book in the post!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 31, 2015 16:13:01 GMT
Verity Lambert book here today. Superb.
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