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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 27, 2010 16:35:51 GMT
Did I say that The Deadstone Memorial was very good? it is.
A week today I will be holding a copy of Lungbarrow.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 27, 2010 17:25:10 GMT
Lungbarrow is a bit of a chore to get through, but has some nice ideas. It's probably just a couple of drafts away from really working as a story rather than an elaborate info-dump. Well worth a read though.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 28, 2010 16:57:09 GMT
And it has arrived and been placed in the reading pile for Chrimbo time. Nice to get it for £4, but with it being so cheap (RRP £17) just a month after its release does make me wonder if the book tanked on launch.  -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 28, 2010 18:09:33 GMT
Hang on,I ordered that too. Where's mine...
Posted 17th apparently. Hmmmm
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Post by legios on Nov 28, 2010 20:29:25 GMT
And it has arrived and been placed in the reading pile for Chrimbo time. Nice to get it for £4, but with it being so cheap (RRP £17) just a month after its release does make me wonder if the book tanked on launch. Judging by the unsold piles of them sitting in my local Tesco at a tenner I was beginning to suspect that this was a possibility. Karl |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 9, 2010 10:14:11 GMT
To the Slaughter: Pedestrian. So having finished all the EDAs I'd bought recently I thought I should give Gallifrey Chronicles another go. A great fun romp with the first half being a small crisis for the Doctor while the second half is a global threat. Lots of references in there: There's a book called The Witch Lords on the shelf (which the writer of The Discontinuity Guide spotted but he missed that the Restraunt was called the Red Fort (proposed Terry Nation Indian Mutiny historical). Loved it more than ever this time. Probably makes no sense without reading some of the previous books! I think we'll give Infinity Doctors a whirl before dealing with the NA pile.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 9, 2010 18:20:23 GMT
Gallifrey Chronicles was shit in so many, many ways. Loved Infinity Doctors though.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2011 16:46:53 GMT
Yup,Infinity Doctors was great on it's second reading.
So time to polish off the remaining New Adventures. Since I've recently acquired the two I didn't have I'm going to read all four Timewyrn books.
Genesis isn't very good is it? Peel should have stuck to adapting sixties Dalek stories.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2011 18:27:44 GMT
Never cared for Peel's original novels. His version of Dalek Masterplan is ok though.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 14, 2011 19:11:29 GMT
All five of his adaptations are good. Which makes his novels, especially the excruciating EDAs, a dispointment.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2011 18:02:21 GMT
Right:
Exodus: superb, one of my favorite NAs
Apocalypse: better than the last time I read it.
Revalation: still good, love the concept of Saul the living church.
Nightshade: Gatsis does "base under siege" crossed with Quatermass. I noticed the names of Mr Pemberton and Dr Shearsmith jump out at me this time ;-)
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2011 18:29:25 GMT
Revelation is tops. Nightshade I couldn't get into. There's nothing wrong with it..I just..."I dunno", as the interwebs say.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2011 18:30:20 GMT
I've had books like that. Each to their own.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 19, 2011 9:27:09 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 21, 2011 14:12:18 GMT
A little behind:
Tragedy Day spoilt because I could clearly remember the plot and who done it.
First Frontier good
Set Piece good
Original Sin Very Good, but slightly spoilt by me knowiung a certain villain returned in one book and guessing early on this was the one. That's the only element that didn't quite work for me.
Currently reading The Also People
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Post by blueshift on Mar 21, 2011 14:23:12 GMT
Ah, Virgin Books, those were the days. We'll never see the like again! I remember never getting my copy of The Dying Days, despite making sure to order one at the bookshop! |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 21, 2011 21:10:51 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 21, 2011 21:15:05 GMT
Hooray!!
Andy
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Post by legios on Mar 21, 2011 21:56:27 GMT
Superb! And with a couple of the Who books I read the earliest in there as well. Brilliant.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 21, 2011 23:17:47 GMT
I can live without the Hartnells, but great picks for the Troughton & Pertwees.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 22, 2011 10:53:45 GMT
The Also People: Quite brilliant. Fabulous read.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 22, 2011 18:57:50 GMT
Indeed it is. Yes, it's an Ian M Banks KO but unlike a Banks book it is actually readable.
And it has my favourite DW Book cover to boot.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 23, 2011 16:28:34 GMT
very readable. Something just works about this book in a way that it doesn't for some others. It reads better than nvirtually any other Who novel I've read.
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Post by blueshift on Mar 23, 2011 17:00:48 GMT
I like it well enough, I don't think it hit /that/ spot for me though.
Maybe I need another re-read!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 24, 2011 21:41:15 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Mar 24, 2011 22:05:26 GMT
Very interesting that they're going for the £16.99 hardback for this, I imagine they'll be pushing Douglas Adams' name as much as possible.
Gareth Roberts hasn't been on nearly as good form as he was back in the 90s, however here's hoping!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 25, 2011 8:05:14 GMT
Same price-point and format as Moorcock's book, so perhaps it didn't bomb after all. It may be that we can expect 1 high-profile 'past Doctor' hardback a year?
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 25, 2011 8:51:41 GMT
You do see a lot of Douglas Adams things happening now that you suspect wouldn't have happened while he was alive......
Don't forget this is the period where most of Gareth Roberts MA hits are from. Best choice to write it.
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Post by The Doctor on May 18, 2011 17:33:25 GMT
Running Through Corridors by Rob Shearman and Toby Hadoke was a very readable account of a marathon through 60s Who with a remit of trying to be as positive as possible. Like me, however, they struggle with Richard Martin's directorial style! But they had a few new ways at looking at that era of WHO which makes me want to dig a few eps out again.
When I can concentrate (difficult at the moment) I am flicking through SPIRAL SCRATCH, Gary Russell's take on The Sixth Doctor's Final Adventure. It's readable and exactly the kind of undemanding read I need right now. Though I suspect I would otherwise judge it a bit harsher.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on May 19, 2011 10:47:50 GMT
Oh, it's starting to get bad now.
-Ralph
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