*is typing this in her sleep*

[drakyndra]

So...very...tired.

Shall be going to bed almost immediately after this.

(Tiredness is due to the fact I had to hand in some stuff for Creative Writing today - namely a book review, and a folio piece. But they were finished and handed in on time, so all was well there)

The Union House Supermarket has Watermelon Gatorade. This was a discovery of great joy for me.

Also, due to this weekend being Easter and all, we had no labs for Astronomy this week. Which meant I could actually turn up to the FAS classic video thingy. Which was alright, really, but because it was a Monday, everyone had to leave early, and not a huge amount got watched.

So I wwent and returned the videos we got out. Except the Doctor Who ones, because I will want to watch them at some point (They are the Dalek Invasion of Earth ones - I need to see more Hartnell eps).

On the subject of Doctor Who, I managed to see a copy of that Confidential. I can't be bothered going into great detail over it, but let it suffice to say that OMGTHEAWESOMENEVERENDS!

Next Saturday cannot come soon enough.

And again on Doctor Who, a Who fan from the FAS meeting managed to point me out to a second hand book place with a semi-decent range of Doctor Who novels.

I am so very doomed now.

(PS. All long term Who fans on my flist? Plz be recommending which books I should try and read. There are so many, and I know very little about ost of them)

Comments

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Hee. I have read exactly two classic series books, but I reckon they're both worth it for different reasons... Also it depends which Doc you like, probably.

Lungbarrow is, well, interesting. You've probably heard of it; it's that one that has the ZOMG!LOOMS theory in it. The BBC has it up on the website to read for free, too.

The other one I've read is a Missing Adventures book called Goth Opera; I rather enjoyed it--Nyssa gets turned into a vampire by a flying baby. Classic crack, that. Though besides that the general plot is fairly fun. Though it may just be that I squeed lots over the Five/Tegan shippyness, I don't know. ;)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I have actually read Lungbarrow from that site, mainly because I heard it explained a lot, and I wanted to hear the backstory. I've read bits and pieces of the online ones, but that's the only one I've finished.

I've also got a bunch of PDFs, including Goth Opera.
The complete txt and PDF list I have (but have not as yet read):
- All Consuming Fire
- Transit
- Blood Harvest
- Goth Opera
- The four Timewyrm books
- The Janus Conjunction
And a bunch of story novelisations, mostly Fourth Doctor.

I have no idea if any of these are any good, but someone had them up on doctorwho_eps, so I grabbed them.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yeah, I reckon Lungbarrow is worth it just to know what all the wank is about, though it was like reading a totally different canon.

Blood Harvest and Goth Opera are connected (I d/loaded Blood Harvest too, but I haven't got around to reading it.) The events in Blood Harvest happen first (kind of) and then Goth Opera happens. Just to prove time travel can be confusing, I guess, and why Time Lords shouldn't cross each other's timelines.

I wouldn't bother with the Target novels unless you can't get ahold of the eps to watch--they're basically an exact retelling, and written with kid readers in mind. I found the language too simplistic to be interesting, and they don't add anything. (here was me looking for nuance and shippiness... nope. just this happened and then that happened.)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I'll go with some of the Target novels for now, mainly because the local libraries are a bit crap, I'm too cheap to buy the stories, and I am running on limited download space (which I am sort of keeping for series 2). But they aren't exactly expensive, anyway.

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

TRANSIT is a classic, albeit a controversial one. ACF I hate with an all-consuming passion, but if you don't care that Andy Lane defames Sherlock Holmes in the pursuit of his own petty philosophical agenda, I guess you might not hate it so much. GOTH OPERA is all right, I just have a low tolerance for vampires (though kateorman and jblum did a fab job with VAMPIRE SCIENCE so it isn't impossible to get past my prejudices if you're really clever).

TIMEWYRM: EXODUS is pretty good and REVELATION is near-brilliant. Haven't read JANUS CONJUNCTION but I seem to recall it's Gary Russell so it probably sucks. Don't recall BLOOD HARVEST even though I suspect I've read it, so that means it's prolly just average.

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Bit of a mix, then. That's alright, having some good and some bad might help me get a bit of an idea of what I might like.

[bellmeister.livejournal.com]

I say Celestial Toymaker, good luck finding a copy, (it's an original episode of the first doctor which they've lost the footage for I believe), haven't read many of the ones which weren't based on a tv viewed story but cat's cradle was interesting