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Doctor Who books
Jan. 12th, 2009 09:46 pmI read two Doctor Who books today.
I only meant to read one, and save up the others and ration them out a bit, but I started with 'The Story of Martha' and by the end of the book I didn't feel like I'd read a book. It's a short story collection with a wrapper. All the parts are okay, but they feel like I got five biscuits instead of a meal. And I was dissatisfied with it for the same reasons I was dissatisfied with the episode it is set in. Which is fair enough from one point of view, means they stuck to the same story, but I'd wanted them to fix it. But no, ( Read more... ) It doesn't have that zingy Martha saves the world feeling I was looking for. So, for same reasons as the episode, it's not what I was hoping for.
Then I read 'Beautiful Chaos'.
This one would have been a good story even without being tied to Donna's last episode. It made me cry. Several times.
But then it ties together with what happened to Donna and seems to get stuck in and engage with the bad parts of it.
It doesn't fix the meta level where there's doing bad things to women's minds, actually adds another, but it deals with emotional and character and in-world levels quite beautifully.
( Read more... )
I really like this one. Does everything tie in books should do, and does it well.
I only meant to read one, and save up the others and ration them out a bit, but I started with 'The Story of Martha' and by the end of the book I didn't feel like I'd read a book. It's a short story collection with a wrapper. All the parts are okay, but they feel like I got five biscuits instead of a meal. And I was dissatisfied with it for the same reasons I was dissatisfied with the episode it is set in. Which is fair enough from one point of view, means they stuck to the same story, but I'd wanted them to fix it. But no, ( Read more... ) It doesn't have that zingy Martha saves the world feeling I was looking for. So, for same reasons as the episode, it's not what I was hoping for.
Then I read 'Beautiful Chaos'.
This one would have been a good story even without being tied to Donna's last episode. It made me cry. Several times.
But then it ties together with what happened to Donna and seems to get stuck in and engage with the bad parts of it.
It doesn't fix the meta level where there's doing bad things to women's minds, actually adds another, but it deals with emotional and character and in-world levels quite beautifully.
( Read more... )
I really like this one. Does everything tie in books should do, and does it well.