Comments | nwhyte: Three Doctor Who audiobooks

nwhyte

Three Doctor Who audiobooks

Aug 18, 2009 10:42

All three of these are rather good, and all seemed to me to succeed by not trying too hard. The Eyeless has the Doctor on his own, the other two feature Donna. In all three cases I listened to an abridged audio version, but I imagine that the full dead tree original is also worth picking up.

( August Books 32) The Eyeless, by Lance Parkin )

doctor who, doctor who: 10, bookblog 2009, writer: lance parkin, writer: mark morris, writer: gary russell

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steve_mollmann August 18 2009, 15:11:42 UTC

I've been surprised at all the love Beautiful Chaos has been getting. Like you, I read the audiobook instead of reading the book (I wanted some Bernard Cribbins), but I just did not like it at all. It just waffles on and on, with the Doctor and Donna hardly doing anything the whole time-- for example, the opening sets up those mysterious computers and then the Doctor promptly forgets about them. The character stuff most of the "story" consists of isn't noteworthy enough to make up for it. And the astronomy is off at a level a twelve-year-old ought to be aware of, and that did bother me.

wwhyte August 18 2009, 15:21:02 UTC

Lance Parkin had an interesting blog about the writing of The Eyeless -- http://theeyeless.blogspot.com

nimbusxl August 20 2009, 01:12:49 UTC

Just as a side note when you said 'Second Series' of Sarah Jane audios, I thought you meant the short CDs BBC made for 'The Sarah Jane Adventures' TV series. I heard those and was straining my head to think of a link between Beautiful Chaos and 'The Ghost House' or 'The Time Capsule' silly me never thought of Big Finish ( ... )