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| What: | The Price of Paradise (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | Hello mr cheese, hi |
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| Date: | Saturday 2 February 2008 |
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| Rating: |   8 |
If you want to be in a fiction paradise you have got to read this book. The Witiku monsters are well described, and it is truly an awesome adventure about what one man would do to save his home. the idea of the Witiku is absolutely rockin'.
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| What: | Wishing Well (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | not really Tennant no more joking, poop smells like CHEESE |
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| Date: | Saturday 2 February 2008 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
WOOOOOH! ANTONY WANTEE MORE! Trevor is a writing genius. This book bloody rulz. Massive alien trapped inside the village well, an alien stone and mutants all come together to form one of the Doctor's most amazing adventures to date...
| What: | Lost in Time (BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Thursday 31 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
This wonderful 3 disc set is an essential purchase for any Dr Who fan.
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| Nightmares, Gods and long lost memories |
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I have just finished reading this Odoctor Who book. and now i can proudly put it on my bookshelf.
It tells the tale of wels village Yns Du where no one can leave their houses after dark as monsters prowl the streets.
The book has a bit of someting for everybody. Monsters nad plans to resserect alien Gods and a woman's long lost son.
A greaat read.
P.S well done Mike Tucker on your first Dr who book for the first series!
| What: | The Invasion (TV episode audio soundtracks) |
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| By: | sam, new zealand |
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| Date: | Monday 28 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
great story 1 of my faves
| What: | The Mind's Eye (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | Doug, Pocono Summit, PA, USA |
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| Date: | Monday 28 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
Spoilers Ahead
I found The Mind's Eye to be a moderately interesting story, well-produced and fairly well-written. The Doctor, Peri and Erimem have come to a planet that appears to be a paradise, but is actually not nearly as pleasant as it appears. A rather interesting kind of intelligent plant life subdues its victims and weaves dreamworlds for them out of their own memories, getting them caught up in vivid dreams that they take as being reality, in which the plant itself plays roles, while it begins to slowly digest the victim. The Doctor and friends fall prey to some of these plants, and it is up to the Doctor, with a little help from members of an expedition on the planet who have questionable motives, to rescue Erimem and Peri. This involves more than simply physically removing them from the plants, and there is the additional threat of the odd "jekylls," an animal species that has a strong connection with the deadly plants.
This was an interesting story, but I felt it fell short in a couple of areas. For one thing, a great deal of time was spent in Peri's dreamworld, which was really just a rather mundane soap opera-type situation. And I also would've liked to have gotten more of a look into the mentality of the plants, so to speak, but the dream characters generated by the plants really didn't reveal any kind of specific mind at work like that. They served to maintain the fantasies and resist references to the "real world," but didn't seem to really have any characteristics beyond what would be expected from ordinary dream characters. That was disappointing.
And of course, there was significant borrowing from the Wachowskis' Matrix films, but it was done differently enough to keep the story fresh.
The one-part Mission of the Viyrans is a very creepy little oddity, kind of the nightmare to the dream of The Mind's Eye.
In addition, the "cd extras" included in this release continue to offer interesting looks behind the scenes.
Overall: entertaining, but missing that element that would hook the listener into an unforgettable story experience.
| What: | Bunker Soldiers (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Monday 28 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 9 |
A good, taught, exciting thriller.
| What: | Zeta Major (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Monday 28 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 5 |
An ok sort of story. Not enough Doctor, to many other charcters. Very long & slow. More straight fantasy than Sci-Fi.
| What: | Winner Takes All (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | Gazza, South Wales |
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| Date: | Sunday 27 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 5 |
Sorry jaquline Rayner because I've now read ur other dr who books and they r rerall good but this is just weak.
I like the idea of a dangerous comptour game and the idea of the hedgehog aliens.
This was the first dr who book i ever read and i had it on holidays. i had plenty of time to read it by the pool but frankly, i'd rather have a nap and only manages to read 2 chapters in the whole two-week holiday.
When i got home and started to read it more and as it progessed it did get better but your'e lucky it didn't put me off the other books. but it didn't, so it can't have been that bad.
i loved the humour in it and the Tyler family.
All in all, good effort but still weak.
| What: | The Clockwise Man (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | Gazza, South wales |
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| Date: | Sunday 27 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
a very good start to the BBC Doctor who books range.
Was quite exiting but it could get boring at times.
But made me want to read more anyway which means it can't be that bad.
All in all. good start.
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| The second sequel in a great series! |
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| What: | The Bride of Peladon (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Sunday 27 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
Well I must say that I loved The Curse Of Peladon, dripping in atmosphere and tension. The sets were also very realistic. Then came for me an even better sequel, dont know what some people think about the Monster of Peladon, saying its a rehash and nothing more. I loved this story twice as much as Curse. And now we have an audio adventure which builds on the success of these first two television stories.
Peter Davison leads a brilliant cast in a multilayered gem that never seems to pause for breath. I was sad that this is to be Caroline Morris's last story. She was a great companion! But the story itself is a fitting ultimate adventure for her. This story also had a totally different enemy, i didnt guess at all....well, actually, its good when a script is written to keep you guessing as you can try to figure out who the voice really is before the end of episode three, and i was actually thinking of osirans, but was sure id be wrong, but i wasnt...anyway, this story has all the other major elements to make a decent peladon sequel, Alpha Centauri, Arcturus, and an Ice Lord, or prince. This story has many twists and turns and is a real classy tale! Cant say much more about this great stpory apart from the fact that I wish it could be adapted for tv, along with the baby aggedors too! You have to get this story, its fantastic!
| What: | Only Human (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | Aaron, Canada |
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| Date: | Saturday 26 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 5 |
I found this book far from the roll around on the floor laughing page turner that people assured me it was. I found it amusing but far from funny. The start was amusing. There was some nice banter between Jack, Rose and the Doctor.
The book suffers again from what to do with Jack. It seems to be a common problem. The authors solution was to have Jack keep notes, these notes while amusing have nothing to do with the story really. Both Jack and Das become pointless to the story after the Doctor heads to the past. It disjoints the flow with these pointless additions.
Many of the characters are two dimensional and the major villain was extremely weak. She lacked charisma and menace. There were no surprises, she was obviously the villain right from the start. Her Frankenstein creations were nothing new.
While it was an ok read with some witty banter here and there it really did fall way short of the mark. Garth Roberts is a talented writer and he can do much better than this.
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| Lackluster Finale for Charley |
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| What: | The Girl Who Never Was (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | Doug, Pocono Summit, PA, USA |
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| Date: | Thursday 24 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
I was thinking that Charley's final story with the Eighth Doctor would a great one. Once again, my hopes were dashed.
While we do get a good cast and fine acting here, as well as fine production, we also have another script that frequently and abruptly jumps back and forth across different time zones - back and forth among three this time. This makes for a story that's a bit confusing to start out with. Added to this, we get more rubbish technobable - this time it's "temporal corrosion." This temporal corrosion seems to flare up only when it helps move the script along, and is fairly inexplicable. Does it really damage things or not? Why does it trigger the TARDIS's HADS system, yet it doesn't kill humans? How do humans become carriers of temporal corrosion without being corroded themselves? (I feel like I'm Peter Jones, doing an episode closer for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy here...)
As to the Cybermen, they're okay, but very much an anticlimax here, after Human Resources. Almost an afterthought. And I feel that Byron, who starts out being a very intriguing character, ends up being wasted as the character slips into insignificance through the rest of the story.
What saved this story for me and adds points to the rating is its crazy-twist out-of-nowhere ending, which elicited a Tenth Doctor-like "WHAT??!" out of me. I'll say no more about that.
Overall, The Girl Who Never Was is a somewhat sad, somewhat dissatisfying ending for a character who was for me, a quite significant, well-liked, and long-running presence in the Eighth Doctor audios. I just feel that Charley deserved a much better sendoff, and it seems like this story could've been done so much better.
| What: | Forever Autumn (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | Mel, Edinburg, U.S. |
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
Fun and easy-paced book. Sort of creepy at times. Over all, good.
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| Plea: Brilliant (is plea spelt right?) |
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OMFG definitely the best 9th dr book ever written. The Slitheen and Blathereen were brilliant and the prison planets ruled. Anyone who doesn't like this wants lockin' up (pun intended)
| What: | The Pirate Loop (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | antony, i can never remember |
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
WTF?!? the badger idea was brilliant, but half of the things are impossible to understand! Good book though, funny
| What: | The Legend (Miscellaneous factual books) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
This book (probably) won't tell you anything you don't know, but none the less it is a wonderful book. Some beautiful photos. Hours of fun for every Dr Who fan.
| What: | The Television Companion (Miscellaneous factual books) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
Probably the best Dr Who refernce book I have come across.
| What: | The Discontinuity Guide (Miscellaneous factual books) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
Funny, intresting, thoughtful. What more do you want ? Highly recommended.
| What: | The Time Warrior (BBC classic series DVDs/Blu-rays) |
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| By: | Trevor Smith, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Wednesday 23 January 2008 |
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| Rating: | 9 |
The third Doctor, A first sighting of Sarah Jane, A first sighting of the Sontarons, The first mention of Gallifray. Just magic. A tip, watch it with the new CGI effects option. It improves the viewing so much, espically the explosion at the end. Highly recommended.
