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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2020 5:10:31 GMT
Were any of the eighth Doctor novels turned into audiobooks?
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Mar 6, 2020 8:45:41 GMT
Were any of the eighth Doctor novels turned into audiobooks? Nope. Probably for the best too. |
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Post by frisby78 on Mar 10, 2020 10:10:41 GMT
Were any of the eighth Doctor novels turned into audiobooks? Nope. Probably for the best too. Not a fan I presume? I enjoyed the EDAs but they weren't as good as the NAs. There is some damn fine books in the range though. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2020 20:34:50 GMT
I enjoyed the EDAs but they weren't as good as the NAs. There is some damn fine books in the range though. There are also a good few stinkers in the EDA range too... two of which unfortunately happen to be Dalek novels. |
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Post by frisby78 on Mar 10, 2020 20:37:08 GMT
I enjoyed the EDAs but they weren't as good as the NAs. There is some damn fine books in the range though. There are also a good few stinkers in the EDA range too... two of which unfortunately happen to be Dalek novels. Oh I agree there. They are both dreadful. |
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Mar 11, 2020 17:00:40 GMT
Nope. Probably for the best too. Not a fan I presume? I enjoyed the EDAs but they weren't as good as the NAs. There is some damn fine books in the range though. Oh I enjoyed a few of them, definitely, But as a whole the line was awful. And the NAs are guilty of the same crime. Due to the show being off the air the BBC didn't seem to use as much oversight as they should have. For every book that could stand alone and proud there's one that should never have got out of the concept stage. |
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Post by BHTvsTFC on Apr 13, 2021 18:14:21 GMT
It might be a nice direction for BBC Audio to go in now they've run out of Targets. It would be cool to get Paul in to read some but as a series/concept maybe it would be good to 'cast' some regular readers in to give the feeling of Sam, Fritz and the others. It would give such a range an individual style.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2021 20:52:46 GMT
It might be a nice direction for BBC Audio to go in now they've run out of Targets. It would be cool to get Paul in to read some but as a series/concept maybe it would be good to 'cast' some regular readers in to give the feeling of Sam, Fritz and the others. It would give such a range an individual style. It's something that I could see the BBC doing one day, as the EDA novels are an untapped market in their range of Doctor Who audiobooks. I'm not sure the Eighth Doctor novels have the charm of the Target novels though, but there's always a customer base for Doctor Who stories on audio, so who knows?
I hope they do the 2021 Target novels first though... they are way more interesting! 
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Post by theillusiveman on Apr 14, 2021 1:23:02 GMT
Back in 2013 they re released the EDA The Year of Intelligent Tigers
So yeah hopefully they would consider doing more
Having McGann or Matt Di Angelo voice some audio books
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Post by constonks on Apr 14, 2021 2:07:04 GMT
Do I think the Eight Doctors is a good book? Nah. Might I pick up an audiobook of it (probably read by Dan Starkey or Sophie Aldred)? Yeah.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Apr 14, 2021 14:21:11 GMT
Not a fan I presume? I enjoyed the EDAs but they weren't as good as the NAs. There is some damn fine books in the range though. Oh I enjoyed a few of them, definitely, But as a whole the line was awful. And the NAs are guilty of the same crime. Due to the show being off the air the BBC didn't seem to use as much oversight as they should have. For every book that could stand alone and proud there's one that should never have got out of the concept stage.[/quote] I think that there's a fundamental difference between the two lines, which is that Virgin rarely put out an actively bad novel - a lot of them weren't to my taste, or were challenging and not necessarily suitable to a DW audience, or fell flat on their face - but the BBC had a lot of tiresome dreary novels. As regards the BBC's influence, they did intervene when Virgin went through a stage of using strong language. What's interesting with the BBC ones is that they started with a strong editorial slant (DW was back! so the books had to be suitable for the kiddies,and definitely no nasty Virgin references) to, eventually, complete uninterest ("Warmonger" has a massive continuity gaffe over Gallifrey's timeframe that an editor ought to have spotted, and "Millennium Shock" is just one whole two-fingers-stuck-up at the whole 'other company' ban). |
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