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Post by clocketpatch on Oct 13, 2009 1:43:39 GMT
So, my mother has apparently realised that I'm a Who-fan, and, as she volunteers at the library book sale, she had the good fortune to come across one of those old target novelizations and the good sense to know what to do with it. (I love you mom) So, I'm now the proud owner of 'Doctor Who and the Underworld' which amused me for all of half-an-hour with its fantastic literary prose. My favourite line: "Whatever blows can be made to suck"  ?!?! lol |
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Post by Stripes on Mar 13, 2010 4:09:08 GMT
This makes me laugh. I like laughing.
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 13, 2010 4:31:03 GMT
I have a frightening feeling that line might have been in the actual episode... and the BBC website confirms this too me. Oh, but those were simpler times...
or something
:S
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Post by Stripes on Mar 13, 2010 4:42:22 GMT
Awesome. I love how sexual this show can be without it meaning to. xD
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Post by lostspook on Mar 13, 2010 10:00:30 GMT
Aw. Target novelisations were my lifeline when DW ended in 1989. My love of the b&w era is muchly due to them. It was all down to which ones my library had - there was very little Three, and what there was seemed very unimpressive on the page. (Six's novelisations did not rescue his reputation, either.) They had a lot of Five, and while I started on them because Peter Davison was a familiar face (I was an unbeliebale timid reader!), Tegan won me over totally. She's a good POV figure for the books. Four, they had more with Romana and Leela. The First Doctor ones seemed to have so much more depth, with Ian and Barbara, that peeking daringly into one of them grabbed me instantly. And the novelisation of Nightmare of Eden shows exactly how much better that episode could and should have been. Plus, all the NA lead-ups of the Seventh Doctor novelisations. And Two and Zoe in the Mind Robber.  I've never seen the one for Underworld, but, well, it wouldn't surprise me. It's probably the Doctor as well, isn't it?? :lol: |
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Post by clocketpatch on Mar 14, 2010 3:33:43 GMT
Aw. Target novelisations were my lifeline when DW ended in 1989. My love of the b&w era is muchly due to them. It was all down to which ones my library had - there was very little Three, and what there was seemed very unimpressive on the page. (Six's novelisations did not rescue his reputation, either.) They had a lot of Five, and while I started on them because Peter Davison was a familiar face (I was an unbeliebale timid reader!), Tegan won me over totally. She's a good POV figure for the books. Four, they had more with Romana and Leela. The First Doctor ones seemed to have so much more depth, with Ian and Barbara, that peeking daringly into one of them grabbed me instantly. And the novelisation of Nightmare of Eden shows exactly how much better that episode could and should have been. Plus, all the NA lead-ups of the Seventh Doctor novelisations. And Two and Zoe in the Mind Robber. I've never seen the one for Underworld, but, well, it wouldn't surprise me. It's probably the Doctor as well, isn't it?? :lol: Indeed it was.  |
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Post by jjpor on Mar 14, 2010 16:29:08 GMT
LOL - of course, it would have to be...
Yeah, the Target books are cool - they were a fixture in my childhood as well, and I still have quite a lot of them, most of them fairly distressed-looking secondhand ones that I probably bought for 10p or something at a school fair when I was about twelve. Haven't read the Underworld one, though. Is it by Terrance Dicks? Gotta love him for his years spent toiling in the service of Whodom, but his novelisations weren't exactly the best, if I'm brutally honest.
Remembrance of the Daleks by Ben Aaronovitch is possibly the greatest in the whole range - quite possibly the best Who novel ever written, actually. All of the Seven and Ace and Dalek-related fanfic I've ever written is influenced by that to a quite shameful degree. That and Timewyrm: Revelation by Paul Cornell, one of the very early NAs. But I digress...
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Post by magnusgreel on Apr 22, 2010 10:22:56 GMT
I have never fought for my country, nor have I emperiled self in the name of freedom. Yet, being a child of pop culture, I am just so much more ashamed of the fact that I never read a Target DW novelization. It's the eye thing, you know.
I have no idea if Uncle Terrance is good at novelizations. I may never know. Oh well. I suppose there are higher priorities in my supposed life. Was the the McDonalds of novelizers? Anyhoo, I don't need novelizers. I have the stories on videotape. I'm boring myself, so I'll stop talking.
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