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It may be that the above post may be the last one, for various reasons.
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Maybe I was a little hasty. I am currently reading another book which might be the next entry. Whether it is the last remains to be seen. The next book will most likely be Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos.
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Book 57...
REVIEW: Doctor Who: Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russell
I dunno whether you have noticed, but the original Doctor Who novels I have reviewed for this blog are all by Gary Russell. Maybe it is a really strange coincidence, because he hasn't written that many Doctor Who books, 10, which is less compared to, say, Justin Richards, Terrance Dicks, or Christopher Bulis. I know these names mean nothing to you, but they do to a Whovian. But, well, Gary Russell seems to write good Doctor Who books, what else can I say? Well, except to get on with the review...
The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble return to modern-day Earth so that Donna can visit her concerned mother Sylvia and her delighted grandfather Wilfred Mott. A new electronics craze is sweeping the world, Irish businessman Dara Morgan at the forefront. Wilfred is having a new star named after him, and has an astronomer friend. And new stars are appearing in the sky. The Doctor realises that he knows what is behind this, a malevolent entity he fought over five centuries ago in Italy...
This is a somewhat reminiscent story, in many respects. It certainly borrows elements from Business Unusual, the last Doctor Who novel I reviewed (also by Gary Russell) in that it involves new electronics being used to spearhead a takeover of the world. This is by no means a bad thing, as Beautiful Chaos reads better than Business Unusual. This is also a sequel to the Doctor Who television story The Masque of Mandragora, but also done excellently.
But that is not all that makes this novel excellent. Although set during one of the latest series of Doctor Who, it actually feels more like a television story than a spin-off novel. And, in fact, the story, even given the fact that it is a sequel to a previous story, is actually accessible, I feel, to a newcomer. Why? It's because of the human drama in it.
One of the things that the new Doctor Who series addresses well is the effects that the Doctor's travels have not only on his companions, but also on his companions' family and friends. This is not just a story about the Doctor stopping an alien takeover, but how he relates to Donna Noble and her family. We have family drama, about how Sylvia Noble's abrasiveness masks a genuine concern for Donna and a sadness for the loss of her husband, and how Wilfred Mott looks up to the Doctor.
An excellent Doctor Who novel, it does not overstay its welcome. If anything, it's a little too simple and clear cut, but it is still very excellent, and I can certainly recommend it to non-fans as well.
9/10
First words: It was raining up on the hill, the steady patter-patter-patter hitting the vast golfing umbrella like bullets on tin.
Last words: "Pop in for a cuppa one day."
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Book 58, and the second Doctor Who book in a row...
REVIEW: Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, The Final Chapter by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook
It isn't just novelisations and original stories that I like in my fandom for Doctor Who. It's learning about how they made the show. Good making-of books are not that common for Doctor Who. There was two books in the 70's, or rather, two editions of the same book, only looking at the making of two different stories, there was a pretty good one about the beginning of Doctor Who made in the 80's, another one called Doctor Who: Regeneration on the origins of the American TV movie, and finally, Doctor Who: The Inside Story, a good one on the first two years of the revived series. When I was in the UK, I saw a book called Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale. Gobsmacked by what I thought was an absolutely ridiculous price (the equivalent of $80 Australian dollars), I thought, 'sod that'. However, a year later, not only was a new, updated edition coming out in Australia for a cheaper price, but it happened to be around the time that I got book vouchers for my birthday. So, I ordered, and received, my copy of Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, The Final Chapter.
Russell T Davies is one of those largely responsible for bringing Doctor Who back onto our screens. The creator of Queer as Folk and The Second Coming became Doctor Who's executive producer, script editor, and chief writer for the series starting with its new 2005 season. This book is made up of emails exchanged between Davies and journalist Benjamin Cook, originally meant to be part of a magazine article series, but which became so much more. The original Writer's Tale covered the fourth and final full season produced under Davies' reign, while the new parts of the updated section cover the making of the four 2009 specials that ended his reign, as well as that of David Tennant, the tenth Doctor.
Reading the correspondance is rather enjoyable because of the candid nature of the language involved. One moment, Davies could be complaining about script problems, and the next, he is fantasising about men he would like to date. I have read one criticism that the email correspondance (supplemented with magazine articles and script extracts) is too self-congratulatory, but it has a certain sense of spontaneity that is excellent and compelling, where we see the trials and tribulations of bringing a popular TV series to life almost in real time. We read about the real life illness of Howard Attfield (who played Donna Noble's father, Geoff, in Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride) and how it affected a casting change, bringing in Bernard Cribbins to play Wilfred Mott. We read about David Tennant's mother dying, and later, Tennant suffering a prolapsed disc. We read about how a mistake in shipping to Dubai lead to the damaging of a bus and led to rewrites of Planet of the Dead.
But we also hear of positive things, like the joy Davies feels when a particular bit of casting comes through, or when Cook learns the identity of the Eleventh Doctor, Matt Smith. We read scenes from various episodes that never made it to screen, but which could have been good, like the origins of Davros, or the crowded Shadow Proclamation. Or even of companions and characters who never made it, like Penny (replaced by Donna).
I am reminded, in reading this, of Michael Palin's diaries, the second volume of which I reviewed for this blog. There is a very similar sense of day-to-day things, talking about things ill-considered and wished to be retracted. However, Davies and Cook have a slightly more vital style of writing than Palin, who tends to be, at times, laconic. This is why I like The Writers Tale, The Final Chapter better.
While Doctor Who fans are sure to get the most out of this, if you're interested in a glimpse into the trials and tribulations of making television, you could do worse than this. Much worse. And it is a fascinating glimpse into the world of a writer and showrunner.
9/10
First words: I've been thinking.
Last words: While always thinking of the ones I never wrote.
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After a rather successful jaunt at the Lifeline Bookfest, there will be some new books in the next little while. Most of them will be Doctor Who, so I'll break up the monotony with other books. The next book to be reviewed will probably be Blake's 7: Project Avalon (and what a lucky find that was...).
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Book 59, and the last Blake's 7 novelisation to be read, though probably not the last Blake's 7 book...
REVIEW: Blake's 7: Project Avalon by Trevor Hoyle
One thing that disappoints me about many TV series compared to Doctor Who is that, unlike Doctor Who, many of my favourite series do not have almost completely comprehensive novelisations. Out of the original run of Doctor Who, only four televised stories were never novelised, an impressive amount, considering. It disappoints me that Blake's 7 never got that much coverage, and now, after a sojourn to the Lifeline Bookfest, I am about to read the last Blake's 7 novelisation that I have obtained, which novelises (and abridges substantially in a few cases) the episodes Seek-Locate-Destroy, Duel, Project Avalon, Deliverance, and Orac.
Roj Blake was formerly a major rebel against the ruthless Galactic Federation, but was brainwashed into forgetting this. Now having remembered his past, and managing to hijack the technologically advanced ship now dubbed the Liberator, he, along with five other rebels (and the Liberator's computer, Zen) make up Blake's 7. However, his efforts to attack the Federation have not gone unnoticed, and Supreme Commander Servalan is under pressure to deal with Blake for good. She assigns ruthless officer Travis to seek, locate, and destroy Blake. From Centero to Amersat, from Cephlon to Aristo, Travis and Blake play a deadly game of cat and mouse that reaches from one end of the galaxy to the other...
This novelisation is of note because it novelised two of my favourite Blake's 7 episodes, Seek-Locate-Destroy and Project Avalon. These were my particular favourite episodes from the first series. The former introduces Servalan and Travis, and both episodes involve one of Travis' plans to trap Blake. I enjoyed them, and I hoped that I would enjoy this novel.
The novel is...fine, it's not bad, in fact, it would be a good introduction to the series proper. But it is far from stellar. The best parts was the novelisation of Seek-Locate-Destroy, Duel, and Project Avalon. However, it is as if Trevor Hoyle simply ran out of space. The events of Deliverance are severely abridged, and that of Orac is much shorter than the others. Some of the dialogue and character placements are changed, presumably because Hoyle was working from the original scripts, but there were a few wonderful scenes and dialogue from Duel and Project Avalon that I enjoyed that weren't in there, along with one of my favourite lines of Avon's from Orac.
Another problem is that, because Orac ends on a cliffhanger (it was the final episode of the season), the novel ends like the first season does, on a cliffhanger. However, Hoyle never bothered (or far more likely, wasn't commissioned) to write a novelisation that had the resolving episode, Redemption. And there is the puzzling change of the term 'Mutoid' to 'Android', which would be confusing, because even in the novelisation, they are not robots but cyborgs.
That being said, it succeeds in immersing the reader in the world of Blake's 7, and although it would be doubtless hard to get a hold of, I still recommend it. This is decent adult science fiction.
7.5/10
First words: The tense silence seemed to hum in their ears like static electricity.
Last words: (Not recorded, for spoilers' sake)
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Book 60...
REVIEW: Hellsing Volume 9 by Kohta Hirano
To be honest, I'm not that fond of violence and horror. By horror, I mean the sort that comes from slasher flicks and monster films, filled with gore, viscera, and grotesquery. I don't mind some psychological horror (one of my all-time favourite books is a psychological horror book called House of Leaves), but on the whole, horror is not a genre I often subscribe to. One of the exceptions is the horror-action manga Hellsing which, despite its premise and blood-soaked artwork, is somehow compelling. Having followed the adventures of uber-vampire Alucard as he fought the enemies of the Hellsing Organisation, I found myself drawn nearer to the conclusion of the series. And so I come to the penultimate volume of the manga...
Thanks to his fledgling Seras Victoria, Alucard manages to triumph over the obsessive Catholic vampire hunter Alexander Anderson. But the ruins of London are far from free of fighting. A man Alucard, Seras, and their boss, Integra Hellsing, thought was their ally has turned traitor, allying himself with the neo-Nazi menace led by the Major. Walter C Dornez has sacrificed his humanity and his loyalty to Hellsing, all at a chance to murder Alucard, a monster he considers his rival. While Alucard fights Walter in a battle to the death, and beyond, Integra and Seras must confront and destroy the madman behind this destructive chain of events, the Major.
Hellsing is violent. Let us get that out of the way. While there is not as much actual viscera on display, the amount of blood shed could easily solve Red Cross' shortage problems, and in this issue alone, one character gets off lightly by being shot through the cheek. There is dismemberment (courtesy of razor wires), an impalement or two, immolation, and one character getting his heart, by now a mass of thorns, ripped from his chest.
Hellsing is also very shallow. Admittedly, it has some deep themes about what the nature of a monster is (indeed, there is an interesting soliloquy that the battles monsters like vampires engage in are actually an expression of the sorrow they feel at having hollow, endless lives), but really, the story is basically about how Alucard can win the next battle, and how much he can curbstomp his next opponent.
And yet, there is something compelling about it. Nazis, vampires, a werewolf, and two secret societies dedicated to destroying monsters (one Anglican, the other Catholic and under the aegis of the Vatican), Hellsing is cheesy, but it knows it. And the fights are compelling enough to make you want to read to see what happens next.
Hellsing is far from for everyone. But to those who can stomach it, it is entertaining. It is far from highbrow entertainment, but it is still compelling. Not the best, but something to pass the time.
6.5/10
First words: Master!!
Last words: Now zat's......definitely a genuine monster.
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And hot on the heels of Hellsing is book 61...
REVIEW: Iron Man by Peter David, from the screenplay by Mark Fergus, Hawk Osby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway
I'm not much of a comic book fan. About the only comic I really followed in my childhood with any degree of commitment were the ones published in Doctor Who Magazine. But actual comic serials compared to, say, graphic novels or manga are not ones that I have taken that much interest in. Most Marvel and DC Comics characters I know from the TV cartoons that they had, and now that we seem to have a glut of comic book movies, their various adaptations. I actually prefer movies, as they have the origin story built in more often than not, and thus saves having to trawl through decades of various and even contradictory continuity. Iron Man was one of my favourite comic book movies, and it is as part of this book review blog that I review the novelisation.
Tony Stark has it all, as the playboy billionaire owner of arms dealer Stark Industries. But while demonstrating his latest weapon in war-torn Afghanistan, he is kidnapped by terrorists, mortally wounded in the process. Saved by Yinsen, a doctor and engineer captured by the terrorists, Stark is coerced into building weapons for the terrorists. Thanks to the help, and sacrifice of Yinsen, Stark escapes by building a suit of powered armour, powered by the very device preventing shrapnel from entering his heart. Returning to the United States, Stark is slowly changing into something better. But he must be careful, for he might drive his closest friends away from him, while one of his oldest may be hiding a very nasty secret indeed...
I enjoyed the Iron Man movie quite a bit, and not being a full-on comic book fan, I didn't have any nitpicks about how continuity was being played around with. In reading this, I found myself comparing this book to the movie, albeit favourably. I have read Peter David's novelisations of Spider-Man and Hulk, and enjoyed them. This one was, if anything, better than them, albeit not by much, as Peter David writes well.
David brings the characters to life on the page in the same way as Jon Favreau and the other movie makers did for the screen. We even have little bits that obviously couldn't make it to the screen, such as how Pepper Potts obtained her nickname, and background on the sonic taser device used by Obadiah Stane. We have an expansion of the role of Happy Hogarth, Stark's driver.
But by the same token, there are a few disappointing ommissions. The infamous rant of Obadiah Stane ("Tony Stark built this IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!") is subdued here, and the climactic battle lacks punch. And after fairly descriptive parts for the first half of the novel, the rest seems a little rushed.
Despite this, this is a good novelisation. Not that it's going to make top literature lists, but it is still a good read. Beats trawling through four or five decades of comic book back-issues, anyway.
8/10
First words: Anthony Stark is bored.
Last words: With those four words, Anthony Stark knows he will never be bored again...
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The Hellsing Ultimate series is good. A much closer adaptation than the earlier one. Definitely worth a look if you find the manga compelling rubbish. 
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| Ambivalence wrote: | | The Hellsing Ultimate series is good. A much closer adaptation than the earlier one. Definitely worth a look if you find the manga compelling rubbish. |
I saw the first Hellsing Ultimate DVD, but the second isn't available at the library, and I would prefer to watch it in sequence.
The next book will most likely be Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation. I'm also working on The Manchurian Candidate and Hospital Station.
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Book 62....
REVIEW: Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation by Ian Marter, from the television scripts by Robert Holmes
One of the first Doctor Who books I read was the novelisation of The Invasion, novelised by Ian Marter. Marter, who played companion Harry Sullivan in the series, became infamous in his novelisations of Doctor Who for increasing the violence and even including expletives that would never have made it into the TV show (he infamously used the word 'bastard' in his novelisation of The Enemy of the World, and used it again in The Invasion). Although I have read most of his novelisations, I was yet to read all the way through his adaptation of The Ribos Operation, itself based on a story by Doctor Who's master of the macabre, Robert Holmes. Although a staid story, especially by both writer's standards, this story is significant, at least, for one reason. It was the first story of the Key to Time saga...
The Doctor, while heading for a holiday, is conscripted by the White Guardian, the nearest thing to a deity in the Doctor Who universe, into hunting down the segments of the Key to Time, to stave off encroaching cosmic imbalance. With faithful K9 at his side, and saddled with aloof and arrogant Time Lady Romanadvoratrelundar (Romana for short), the Doctor goes to the primitive planet Ribos, whose inhabitants consider the existence of other planets heretical. There, they are caught up in a confidence trick between two factions of offworlders. The first is the con artist Garron and his accomplice Unstoffe. The second is the deposed Cyrrhenic prince the Graff Vynda-Ka (Ian Marter's spelling, in the actual TV story, it is the Graff Vynda-K) and his ruthless retinue. Garron intends to sell the Graff Ribos itself, conning him into believing that a valuable mineral, Jethryk, is ubiquitous there. Unfortunately, the Doctor and Romana's search for the first Segment of the Key to Time will upset this con very badly...
Like my previous reviews of Doctor Who novelisations, I am yet to actually watch The Ribos Operation. I have to say that, although Ian Marter's prose can be at times enthralling, here, it just serves to make a story unnecessarily grotesque. Ian Marter is the Quentin Tarantino of Doctor Who novelisations, and we are treated to descriptions of how, in one example, a character gets part of his torso fried off by an energy beam, or how another gets stabbed (I have seen clips of the story, and the character in question actually gets shot by a laser beam).
This is a decent story, if a bit thin. Robert Holmes' characters of the Graff Vynda-K/Ka, Garron, and Unstoffe are all pretty well executed, and Ian Marter at least brings them to life compellingly. And one of the best parts of the story involves Unstoffe showing his compassionate side when he comforts Ribos outcast Binro the Heretic, who was tortured and made to recant his belief in other worlds. I read once somewhere that the scene where Unstoffe reveals to Binro that he was correct and that one day, inhabitants of Ribos will consider Binro correct, was one of the defining moments of Doctor Who, and I agree. It's a very heartwarming moment.
I object to the way Romana acts during this story, although I don't know exactly how much of this was from the script and how much Ian Marter embellished or changed. And the Doctor is not painted in a very flattering light, at least in terms of appearance, which I think ironic, as I thought Ian Marter and Tom Baker were the best of friends.
This isn't a bad novelisation, but really, if you want a better representative of the Doctor Who novelisation, try another one. I can recommend a few.
7/10
First words: The tall loose-limbed figure, clad in voluminous shirtsleeves and baggy tweed trousers tucked into creaking leather boots, strode around the faintly humming chamber.
Last words: 'What about some tea?'
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oh new avatar, Quatermass!
To be honest, I like the previous one better, cuter and hotter 
I think you should try his hair style (yes, I mean black Jack), but don't bother with the colour.
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| melbi wrote: | oh new avatar, Quatermass!
To be honest, I like the previous one better, cuter and hotter
I think you should try his hair style (yes, I mean black Jack), but don't bother with the colour. |
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I feel more like Avon at the moment. The character, I mean. He echoes how I see the world at this time, only I don't recall Avon ever facepalming.
So, what's next in terms of books? I dunno. I have Blake's 7: Afterlife, Cordelia's Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold, and maybe The Machurian Candidate.
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| Quatermass wrote: | | melbi wrote: | oh new avatar, Quatermass!
To be honest, I like the previous one better, cuter and hotter
I think you should try his hair style (yes, I mean black Jack), but don't bother with the colour. |
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I feel more like Avon at the moment. The character, I mean. He echoes how I see the world at this time, only I don't recall Avon ever facepalming.
So, what's next in terms of books? I dunno. I have Blake's 7: Afterlife, Cordelia's Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold, and maybe The Machurian Candidate. |
ohohoh can i choose? please?
hmmm...hmmm...
Melbi says, Blake's 7: Afterlife
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