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rj_anderson

sob sob sob

Dec 19, 2003 20:57

I've just finished listening to Scherzo, the latest Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama featuring the Eighth Doctor and his companion Charlotte "Charley" Pollard, and I'm utterly overwhelmed. ( Slightly spoilerish observations follow... )

eight/charley, doctor who, wibbling, reviews, scherzo, rob shearman

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Scherzo musings anonymous December 19 2003, 20:02:57 UTC

Hi, Rebecca!

I couldn't sleep - which is deeply frustrating, because I'm due to be at a signing for Scherzo in the morning. (Ugh. I wouldn't want to have me autograph for anyone. I'll be bleary-eyed and crotchety.) I checked out your website - great stuff, by the way, more on that later - and stumbled across your entry on my Doctor Who story. In the way you do.

Just wanted to thank you again, really. I know that Big Finish took a few risks in allowing me to write something for them which strayed so far from the adventure format and which could be, to all intents and purposes, a love story. The jury's still out on whether it's been well-received or not. But either way, your wonderful response has made it worthwhile!

Very best wishes - and thanks

Rob Shearman

Re: Scherzo musings rj_anderson December 20 2003, 05:15:42 UTC

Thanks, Rob! Hope the signing goes well, and may your reviews for Scherzo continue to be as positive as the majority I've seen...

sff_corgi December 19 2003, 21:03:22 UTC

[doubletakes at first comment]

O_O!

Anyway... ermm... [still distracted]... would you be willing to tell me a bit about Dorothy Dunnett when you get a chance? (If I can draw you away from all your male admirers, that is.) I know the name, but I don't really know anything about her work.

rj_anderson December 20 2003, 05:14:36 UTC

LOL on the male admirers. If you say it that way it doesn't sound half so embarrassing...

As for Dunnett, I've only read her Lymond series, the Johnson Johnson mysteries (which get no respect because they're "just" light detective fiction -- humph), and her stand-alone Macbeth novel King Hereafter. These days she's best known for the Niccolo books, another historical series which I haven't not read (and don't plan to -- not because I think Dunnett ever lost her skills as an author, but because I was warned that the series has an extra-heavy dose of the sort of content I could have done without in the earlier books).

But anyway. Dunnett is staggeringly complex, dauntingly brilliant, creates vividly memorable characters, and her stories are both witty and emotionally eviscerating. Knowing you, I think you would like the Lymond series in particular very much (it's set in the 16th century, the hero is Scottish), assuming you can plow through The Game of Kings, the first book in the series and the one everybody seems to have trouble ( ... )

At the risk of butting in kizmet_42 December 20 2003, 06:37:03 UTC

Thank you.

I've been slogging through The Game of Kings for weeks now. Fortunately, I have an insider at the library who renews it for me before I acquire fines, so I feel no urgency to push through.

I should "want" to read the Niccolo books, I've picked them up any number of times at the library, but each time I've returned them to the shelf. I'll perserve, however, with the Lymond series after reading your comments and hope to find whatever you found that makes them so enjoyable to you.

Kim