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Post by kurumais on Jan 10, 2018 5:46:35 GMT
i wasn't sure where doctor who books get discussed so i took a chance with this folder
so this is a 10th doctor novel and it read by nick briggs for the audio version.
getting a new copy of the audio cd on amazon from 3rd parties is over 300 dollars one is going 426 dollars
that is sum steep cash even for a fandom as strong whovians
some of the reviewes really have be curious " very dark" "scary" "not for the kids"
so whats so special about this book?
thanks in advance
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Post by rran on Jan 10, 2018 5:54:26 GMT
i wasn't sure where doctor who books get discussed so i took a chance with this folder so this is a 10th doctor novel and it read by nick briggs for the audio version. getting a new copy of the audio cd on amazon from 3rd parties is over 300 dollars one is going 426 dollars that is sum steep cash even for a fandom as strong whovians some of the reviewes really have be curious " very dark" "scary" "not for the kids" so whats so special about this book? thanks in advance I've read this one. It's pretty good. I didn't find it too dark or overly scary though, just as much as a decent Dalek episode would be. I have the ebook, I've not listened to the audio.
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Post by Ela on Jan 10, 2018 6:35:00 GMT
It's available on Audible.
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Post by agentten on Jan 10, 2018 6:42:18 GMT
Amazon resellers tend to post crazy prices for things in the hopes that someone will bite. The high price is probably just because the CD has been out of print for a good while, though the book is one of my favorites. The best 10th Doctor book, imo, and certainly one of the darker Who books I've read. If you have Audible or don't mind a used CD, it's worth getting. Briggs' reading is strong, too. Of the audiobooks that I've heard him narrate, it's his best. His 10th Doctor really captures Tennant without feeling like Briggs is putting on a voice. He focuses on a few key vocal characteristics and layers them in smoothly with his narration.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jan 10, 2018 9:21:20 GMT
Great audio drama, it would've made a excellent 2 parter on tv.
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Post by omega on Jan 10, 2018 9:25:23 GMT
The thing to note with Amazon is that often the high price is what's being asked, not what's being paid. There are bots that observe other prices and raise theirs accordingly. You see it a lot with the rarer, and thus pricier, Virgin New and Missing Adventures. Out of print is another factor.
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Post by kurumais on Jan 10, 2018 20:50:56 GMT
someone posted a excerpt on you tube the youtuber edited it so he did the narration and nic did the 10th doctor parts. it wasn't bad. ok nic sounded more like nine than ten to me. i always like nic's short trips and his destiny of the doctor. so i might get it used. thanks all.
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Post by Ela on Jan 24, 2018 23:49:44 GMT
I like Nick's narration on a lot of things, but some Doctors he doesn't get quite right.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2018 5:17:50 GMT
Good grief, how much? I got that for $25 AUD when it first came out. In hindsight, that seems a really sound investment... I've very fond memories of this book. Trevor Baxendale stories have always skewed towards the grimmer edge of the spectrum, but it really sets the tone of the novel when the expected companion character is shot and killed before Chapter Three. There's a touch of Serenity and Bebop to the Wayfarer and her crew, Jon Bowman and his lot are very relatable "professional volunteers". They exist in that lovely little space where the characters feel as though they had lives before the Doctor turned up. Speaking of which... Ten's characterisation manages to be pitch-perfect with all his quirks and idiosyncrasies. He even gets to face off against the Inquisitor General, a Dalek with a unique rank and so far, only one appearance. What makes it stand out from its peers though, is that it's technically not a NuWho story. It's set in the 26th century: the time of the Earth and Draconian Empires, the Cybermen sabotaging galactic peace conferences, the Dalek Wars that took Benny Summerfield's parents away from her... The time of Absalom Daak, Dalek Killer. It's a classic Who story with a NuWho Doctor and everything that entails. The Doctor has to argue against torturing a Dalek prisoner, sees a whole planet wiped out so the Daleks won't get it, gets tortured himself in a labour camp and the story ends with a Sawardian body count. I don't think it's too dark for children though. Rags is dark, too dark for anyone, I think, but I read Prisoner back when it first came out. I remember schoolteacher Jenny Forrest covered in blood after being gutshot in Peacemaker (another well-written book), way, way more than I do the violence here. It's punchy, but it doesn't linger. It's not so far from, say, Dalek Empire or even what the television series itself was doing at the time. Killing is what the Daleks do.
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