What are you reading?

[JoeZhang]

I thought we had a specific Doctor Who reading thread but clearly not.

Just finished Lethbridge-Stewart: The Forgotten Son. I'm a bit torn on it - on the one hand, it's clearly excellently researched (the era and the social change it discusses are well done) and the prose itself is well written.

However... I just didn't find it that interesting a story - the characters in the village are well realised but they just aren't very compelling.

Anyone else read it or reading anything else Doctor Who related?

 

[The Wormhole]

I have the latest Lethbridge-Stewart novel, Mutually Assured Domination sitting at home, unfortunately I can't find the time to get started. In fact, I may not be able to before Christmas. I have read the other three Lethbridge-Stewart, which I enjoyed.

Within the last month I read Time Lord Fairy Tales, basically a retelling of well-known fairy tales with a Doctor Who twist. The stories themselves aren't much to brag about, but the book is a well done and good looking book.

I also recently read The Eye of Torment, Panini's anthology of the first year or so of Twelfth Doctor comics from DWM, which was pretty damn good. Also, Titan's Twelfth Doctor volume 2 anthology, which was largely meh.

 

[mythme]

I'm finally sorting out the Big Finish audios, is there a good site which covers the history of Whovian books/novels?

 

[JoeZhang]

I have the latest Lethbridge-Stewart novel, Mutually Assured Domination sitting at home, unfortunately I can't find the time to get started. In fact, I may not be able to before Christmas. I have read the other three Lethbridge-Stewart, which I enjoyed.

Just finished the second one - it was OK but a little uneven - the 'reveal' in it seemed to be an afterthought and underdeveloped. I guess because I didn't find the first one that interesting, I was not particularly interested in more links to 'the brother'.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Reading Time Trips, a compendium of stories. Slightly odd one, in that it's written by generally non-sci-fi writers like Jake Arnott, who's usually associated with crime novels, and Celia Ahearn, a romcom writer.

Oddly too, while it features various Doctors, they seem to have avoided the mandate of having to write for each Doctor - writers were presumably allowed to write for their fave incarnation. So there are two stories for 10 and 3 and one each for 2, 4 and 5 but none for 1,5,7,8, or 9 (the novel seems to pre-date 12 and the War Doctor).

 

[PorthosShadow]

I'm read palms right at the moment.

 

[NightJim]

10 Little Aliens. I've decided to read all of the 50th Anniversary reprints, and I'm currently on a Ben and Polly trip, and since there are so few surviving serials with them, I figured starting with the novels here would be a good time.
The characterisation of the First Doctor is spot on, but the adventure is so far away from what we expect from that time period. Practically JNT-era, if not Nu-Who. Not sure that's a complaint though.

 

[The Wormhole]

Ten Little Aliens I found to be a challenging read, especially in later chapters when it suddenly turns into a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Literally.

 

[All-Seeing I]

I've been picking up the BBC Past Doctors novels that I missed first time around; I recently read Rags by Mick Lewis, which was quite controversial at the time for its more adult content, but I really enjoyed it. I'm currently reading Zeta Major by Simon Messingham, whom I always found to be consistently good. Nice bit of world-building with the 2000 year hence Morestran Empire, a result of the Doctor's suggestion to Sorenson at the end of The Planet of Evil.