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Post by Hieronymus on Oct 18, 2015 0:22:14 GMT
As I've hinted elsewhere, I'm now reading the plays of Aristophanes. A few of them I've read previously, but now I intend to read the lot.
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Post by omega on Oct 18, 2015 0:26:56 GMT
As I've hinted elsewhere, I'm now reading the plays of Aristophanes. A few of them I've read previously, but now I intend to read the lot. Good on ya. I did Wasps and Frogs for Classics in school, and those plays would be perfect for Big Finish to adapt for their Classics range. Have you read the DWM comic strip Chains of Olympus? |
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Post by omega on Oct 18, 2015 0:29:34 GMT
Currently reading Jurassic Park. Because it's a novel it delves into the science a lot more, and because it's Michael Chrichton the research is going to be well done (for the period it was first released at least). There's also the ability to do more dinosaur scenes, and with different kinds, since the book isn't limited by length or special effects.
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Post by mrfuggleboppins on Oct 18, 2015 2:04:39 GMT
Not had the time to read anything! Besides the audiobook of Human Nature...
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Post by Ela on Oct 18, 2015 2:09:55 GMT
I'm still on a Bernice Summerfield New Adventure reading kick. The last one I read was The Medusa Effect.
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Post by brians on Oct 18, 2015 7:23:09 GMT
Reading? Is that like Big finish without any sound?
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Post by Hieronymus on Oct 18, 2015 16:56:05 GMT
Alas, no. I stopped my regular purchase of DMW when the program came back, because it always arrived here before the episodes, and I got too many spoilers. I just finished reading "The Clouds", however, which makes fun of Socrates and the philosophers. Think Colin Baker as an eloquent, erudite, and exasperated Socrates who tries to take on a bumpkin farmer as a pupil. |
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Post by kimalysong on Oct 18, 2015 16:58:28 GMT
Last finished the Nightingale
Currently Reading Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
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Post by aemiliapaula on Oct 18, 2015 20:55:17 GMT
The witch hunters with the first doctor and MR James ghost stories
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Post by elkawho on Oct 19, 2015 4:06:29 GMT
I finished Me Before You. A terrific non-genre novel. I am now reading Ten Little Aliens. I think it's started a little slow. I'll let you know what I think.
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Post by elgranto on Oct 19, 2015 5:47:45 GMT
Still going through the Seasons of War anthology, which seems to get even better and better as it goes along. I highly recommend donating to Caudwell Children to receive a copy. You can do so here. Still making my way through The Complete Sherlock Holmes too. One story per night on average. Fantastic stuff. |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Oct 19, 2015 12:02:56 GMT
The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks. If I adapted this as part of my Animated Series thing, I probably would only take the opening bits (bar the prologue) and bits of the end and ignore the rest and create a whole new story around the drug. What was the name of the drug in the BF adapt of Damaged Goods?
Shockwave by Clive Cussler. Bar the most recent Dirk Pitt book I am now up to date lol
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Post by mrfuggleboppins on Oct 19, 2015 13:52:25 GMT
The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks. If I adapted this as part of my Animated Series thing, I probably would only take the opening bits (bar the prologue) and bits of the end and ignore the rest and create a whole new story around the drug. What was the name of the drug in the BF adapt of Damaged Goods? The animated series sounds interesting! There's a fan audiobook of it out there somewhere. And an Ian Levine 'reconstruction'... The drug was Smile (rather than cocaine). |
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Oct 20, 2015 14:19:01 GMT
The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks. If I adapted this as part of my Animated Series thing, I probably would only take the opening bits (bar the prologue) and bits of the end and ignore the rest and create a whole new story around the drug. What was the name of the drug in the BF adapt of Damaged Goods? The animated series sounds interesting! There's a fan audiobook of it out there somewhere. And an Ian Levine 'reconstruction'... The drug was Smile (rather than cocaine). Thanks for that  Yeah the Animated Idea goes back to the Rita and Todd convo's on the old forums. What does the Levine 'reconstruction' entail? |
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Post by mrperson on Oct 20, 2015 14:57:45 GMT
Recently:
"Peace on Earth" and "The Invincible" --- excellent sci-fi from Stanislaw Lem
Now: "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"; the first in a three volume biography. Extremely well written.
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Post by mrfuggleboppins on Oct 20, 2015 19:43:09 GMT
The animated series sounds interesting! There's a fan audiobook of it out there somewhere. And an Ian Levine 'reconstruction'... The drug was Smile (rather than cocaine). Thanks for that Yeah the Animated Idea goes back to the Rita and Todd convo's on the old forums. What does the Levine 'reconstruction' entail? Time Lords played by Warris Hussein and others (with a new series vortex for some reason) talking about the Doctor for five minutes against a horribly animated backdrop, plus the Doctor and Susan on Gallifrey (John Guilor and Carole Ann Ford I believe). More of a photomontage type of 'reconstruction' than anything. youtu.be/-4650h76xLk?t=27m35s |
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Post by brians on Oct 21, 2015 5:34:33 GMT
It crops up occasionally on YouTube as part of a long compilation of Levine's efforts. It's pretty terrible to be honest, I couldn't bring myself to watch more than snippets
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Oct 21, 2015 15:32:57 GMT
Ah fair do's lol It sounds awful.
Just started reading Vampire Science. Now I'm enjoying this a lot more
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Post by icecreamdf on Oct 22, 2015 3:57:41 GMT
I'm reading the Foundation series right now. I wanted to read all the books in the Foundation universe, so I just finished the Robot and Galactic Empire series, and now I'm up to Prelude to Foundation.
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Post by seeley on Nov 5, 2015 23:25:44 GMT
I just finished Alien Bodies. WOWPardon my understatement. It's a tour-de-force, as good as everyone says it is. Mindblowing in its imagination; well-written (but oh so subtly;) full of colorful, well-drawn characters (Messrs. Shift and Qixotl being two of my favorites;) it doesn't waste a page. I quite liked the return of a certain obscure alien race. In the hands of a lesser author, they'd be a mere joke, but Miles gets his cake and eats it, also making them a credible, fleshed-out threat. That they were fighting the Metatraxi was rather interesting, in light of Crime of the Century. Though I must say I think that reports of Moffat's plagiarism have been exaggerated.
While it's a very probable inspiration (what with the TARDIS-on-the-side-of-the-building-trick, the Relic, and Timelord biology as a dangerous miracle,) I see nothing in the order of Joe Ford's assertion that the ideas were nicked wholesale for Name of the Doctor.
Both stories, involve the Doctor's (apparent) final end, in the course of a war, and what's in his coffin, but the similarities end there. The Relic is significant for the secrets in its biodata, while the tomb on Trenzalore is useful as a quick means of changing the Doctor's history. The latter application is certainly possible, with the Relic, but it doesn't seem to be the end-goal of the various powers (with the probable of exception of Faction Paradox.) Name of the Doctor is all about killing or saving the Doctor, while he's merely a means to an end in Alien Bodies. Clara is an ordinary girl, who happens to travel with the Doctor and jump into his timestream, while Sam has had her life retailored to make her an ideal companion. One story is about an auction (which the Doctor more-or-less stumbles upon) and its bidders, the other is about a the attempts of a man (well, more of a Lovecraftian horror) to get revenge on the Doctor (by luring him to his tomb.)
Perhaps I'm just being thick, but it seems to me that Miles gives himself too much credit for his influence on the New Series (admittedly, I haven't read any of his other works, but Alien Bodies is one always cited on this subject.) I mean, it's not as if anyone accuses Mile of plagiarizing the Audio Visuals-story Cloud of Fear.
Next up, Time of Your Life, by one Steve Lyons. It should be interesting, if nothing else as the first new adventure for the Sixth Doctor. |
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