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 | The Twenty Year Benchmark. |
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This book details the era that marks Twenty years of Doctor Who, and the youngest actor to play the role at the time. For David Tennant this was HIS Doctor, and the Doctor of the 80's. It looks at the search for a new Doctor and the reviving of old enemies from the Doctors past to help ring in 20 years. It also shows how it tried to bring the early era back to life with a large cast of companions as was done with the 1st Doctor while ushering the glamor of the early 80's. If you are a Tennant fan grab this book and see what influenced his take on playing the Doctor.
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| The Good, The Bad and the Doctor |
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| What: | The Discontinuity Guide (Miscellaneous factual books) |
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| By: | Eric Anderson, Chaska, United States |
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| Date: | Monday 12 March 2012 |
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| Rating: |   9 |
What a fun romp! Over the long years, and many different crews, can get things a bit off and mistakes are bound to happen. How many time can you sink Atlantis? How old are you really Doctor? Keled or Dal? This gives you great dialog and the campy ones. The mistakes and flubs and where the timeline goes wrong. These are the things that made classic Who a joy and reminds us that overall, this show is fun. Read, laugh and enjoy.
ALL Who fans should look for this volume of this excellent series. As they say every saga has a beginning and what a beginning Doctor Who had. Detailed story descriptions and trivia help bring this era alive. Find this book. Read this book. Enjoy this book. The team of the new Who should take a gander and remember what made this show great.
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| Make one wish for more Colin Baker |
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This volume of the excellent series looks at the rocky Sixth Doctor era. One can feel a bit of regret that Colin Baker really never had a chance to shine in his role with Beeb politics and weak writing. For me it shows that fans were shorted at the possibility of a Doctor that would been listed as one of the best.
What a wonderful paperback, and great idea: look at each era of Who and bring the fans a rich history on the picking of the Doctor, his stories and location shooting. This, and the other 7 books of the series hold a special place on my bookshelf.
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| What a help sorting things out. |
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| What: | The Terrestrial Index (The Doctor Who Programme Guide books) |
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| By: | Eric Anderson, Chaska, United States |
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| Date: | Monday 12 March 2012 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
There was a hole in Doctor Who history: Radio Plays, Stage Plays and the Dalek movies. What a great follow up to the Programme Guide to help fill that empty spot for the hungry Who fan.
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| A Good Look at the Cybermen |
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| What: | Cybermen (Miscellaneous factual books) |
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| By: | Eric Anderson, Chaska, United States |
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| Date: | Monday 12 March 2012 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
David Banks worked hard to mesh together the mythos of the Cybermen. Andrew Skilleter's artwork amazes as Banks wonderfully works his history. The NeoWho crew should have worked with Banks as they worked on the 'new' Cybermen. How much was lost and what possibilities there had been...
| What: | Special Effects (Miscellaneous factual books) |
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| By: | Eric Anderson, Chaska, United States |
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| Date: | Monday 12 March 2012 |
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| Rating: | 9 |
I joked when I saw this book at the Two Doctors Tour in Minneapolis that it would be a 4 page pamphlet. But what a wonderful look at the SFX of Doctor Who in the late 70's and early 80's. Full colour and informative on the talent of the team that did the work. We may laugh at the cheep look, but they did not have much to work with and they did wonders with what they could. I only wish that it was a larger, maybe coffee table edition that would have gone back to the beginning days on up to the 80's showing how things advanced and the experiments they did to produce better show.
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| A great look at the first years of Who |
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| What: | The Early Years (Miscellaneous factual books) |
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| By: | Eric Anderson, Chaska, United States |
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| Date: | Monday 12 March 2012 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
This is my favorite of the coffee table Doctor Who books. To look at the inner workings of the Beeb back in the sixties is fascinating to me and the politics and planning of what was originally to be a 12 or 13 episode series. The behind the scenes photos and production art is a joy to look at. I would recommend the NeoWho crowd to find this book to learn how the legend began, for if it was not for these guys, there would be no WHO.
| What: | A Celebration: (Miscellaneous factual books) |
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| By: | Eric Anderson, Chaska, United States |
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| Date: | Monday 12 March 2012 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
This was the first of these hardcovers I got and it was a blast of Doctor Who wonder for a starving Yank. The stories, information and photos really helped flesh out Doctor Who for me and helped me enjoy The Five Doctors even more, being we only had Fourth and Fifth Doctor stories available to us at the time. A bit dated for the NeoWho crowd I am sure, but a fond and enjoyable tome for an Old School Who.
| What: | The TARDIS Inside Out (Miscellaneous factual books) |
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| By: | Eric Anderson, Chaska, United States |
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| Date: | Monday 12 March 2012 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
I picked this up at the Two Doctors tour when they came to Minneapolis. Not a bad book, but not a great book. More fluff then substance. What really makes this book stand out is the fantastic artwork by Andrew Skilleter which makes me give this book a higher rating then it should. If I were to rate on the text it would be a 4.5, maybe 5. Rating on the artwork a 10. Recommend for the Doctor Who are junkie.
For us Yanks this guide (along with vol 2) was a breath of fresh air. It helped bring us up speed on the Doctor Who universe and make us crave for the stories we had not seen yet. My copy is dogeared from reading it over and over dreaming of the stories missing from me. This was our Doctor Who wikipedia!
Great Guide at the Time
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| There's only 1 word needed for this book |
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| What: | Where's the Doctor? (Miscellaneous activity books) |
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| By: | C G Harwood, Dunedin, NZ, New Zealand |
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| Date: | Sunday 11 March 2012 |
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| Rating: | 9 |
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!
| What: | Oh No It Isn't! (Bernice Summerfield audios) |
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| By: | C G Harwood, Dunedin, NZ, New Zealand |
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| Date: | Tuesday 6 March 2012 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
I went into this with an open mind, so had no idea what to expect. I have to say that I was presently surprised. The story was good with a few twist and turns to keep you thinking. And anything Dr Who with Nic Courtney in it is always good. I haven't read a lot of the New Addventures so don't know a lot about this iconic 7th Dr companion, but this story had enough in it to make me want to go out and buy the next one in the series.
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| Limited Edition Signed Version. |
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| What: | Return to Devil's End (Miscellaneous video interviews / documentaries) |
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| By: | Andrew Shaw, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Tuesday 6 March 2012 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
The only reason it got a 10 for this video is because, it is a limited edited copy of only 500 made where the cover was signed by all the Cast involved including Jon Pertwee, so that makes it extra special also watching it makes me remember watching the Daemon's, & usually makes me want to stick it on.
This is a brilliant book. Very dark. Twisted. Surreal.
Almost baroque. And very gothic.
Some people have difficulty with it. The writing is the most precise I've ever seen. Almost Dickensian, but more exact. The author has an astonishingly powerful brain. Very bizarre and unique, and his imaginative vision remains, to my mind at least, utterly unparlleled.
Unfortunately, my experience reading this novel seems to have been unusual.
Nobody I know can read this book. Everyone I give it to has difficulties with it. The colossal visions it contains remain locked away in the dust.
The huge two-headed worm of the Process. The vast dead grey city. The rearing tower of metal refuse that squeals with machinery at the center of it all. And of course, the wondous powers of the TARDIS.
I have never seen such writing. It is the pinicle of human achievment. Marc Platt possesses an extraordinary intelligence. One that comparably few people seem to understand.
Several people have complained about the ending of this book. Some have said that when you figure out what's going on, you just shrug, and say: "It makes sense, but what was all the fuss about?"
I cannot understand this attitude. This book is so intricate it beggars the imagination. The end has implications for the beginning. The middle is echoed throughout. And the ending is a mystery hidden in an emigmatic image that must be reasoned out to be understood.
I firmly regard this book as THE novel of twentieth century literature. Even today, I have never seen writing or imagination like it. It is completely unique. Monumental complexity and originality that is found nowhere else.
Read it for the brilliance and the weird.
| What: | The Shadow in the Glass (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Matt Saunders, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom |
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| Date: | Friday 24 February 2012 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
This book is simply one of the best of these Past Doctor novels. These guys really should write more together. It's got the Brigadier and the Sixth Doctor in a really clever adventure against Adolf Hitler. Well worth a read and picking up second hand. :)
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| The Uwe Boll of authors... |
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| What: | Managra (Missing Adventures novels) |
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| By: | Todd Snider, Green Bay, United States |
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| Date: | Tuesday 21 February 2012 |
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| Rating: | 1 |
The Uwe Boll of authors...
| What: | Alien Adventures (2-in-1 Eleventh Doctor novels) |
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| By: | C G Harwood, Dunedin, NZ, New Zealand |
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| Date: | Monday 20 February 2012 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
I did enjoy these two stories. The first is the classic Dr Who plot of the Dr trying to stop a war between two side that should just sit down and have a cup of tea and a chat togehter, although the plot is good and it is enjoyable to read the bit where the dr is learning the "colour language" of the sea creature seems a little silly (why didn't the TARDIS translator thing not work?)
The 2nd story Raion of Terror was the better of the two stories. It has the wonderful plot of a swarm that is eating everything in its path, And two idiots that are trying to make a lot of money and trying to kill everybody else aswell. It could probably have been another 150 pages longer as I was really enjoying it. and It would have worked well of TV only the plot is very similar to Planet of the dead - only the diffrence is its little bugs instead of sting rays and its a train and not a London bus.
Even thoe this is aimed at younger readers give this a go - you wont regret it.
