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Behind the scenes DW doesn't get much better than this

Advantages: Insightful, sharp witted, easy to read
Disadvantages: Quite heavy and bulky to hold while reading

...is DTChick and I'm a Doctor Who fan. I love it. The stories, the characters, the CGI, the entire concept, everything, and especially David Tennant's performance as the Doctor. I've recently finished reading Russell T Davies' book, The Writer's Tale. Russell has been the Exec Producer on DW since its return to our screens in 2005 and the book follows a year in the life of the writer through a series of emails to Benjamin Cook, journalist and regular ...
...just a passing interest in Doctor Who (like those purchases won't already have been made!) but also for anybody who has aspirations of becoming a writer as it gets down to the nuts and bolts of television production, handling the media, script drafting and just what makes good TV drama. Buy it and buy one for your friend too. You won't regret it ...

DTChick 13.02.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale - Russell T. Davies & Benjamin Cook

Enter the Dragon

Advantages: Epic character based fantasy
Disadvantages: plot slightly weak

...you should know about the Dragonlance series is that there are many many books in it. There are however only a handful that are classed as 'First Tier'. What that means is that only these are the books that have been written by the original authors (Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman) and they tell the main story. All the other Dragonlance books tell other stories that are in some way related to the main story theme (ie. books about each of the characters ...
...world of evil. What makes Dragonlance slightly different is the fantastic character development. This is without a doubt the strong point of the book and the whole series. The story is brilliant, but nothing too original. The story revolves around a group of friends who get together at the start. You have the twins Raistlin and Caramon who are as different from each other as night and day. Raistlin is a moody young mage in hopes of becoming the ...

Wahla 03.03.2004 · Read Full Review
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Review of Dragonlance Chronicles - Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis

Halo: The Flood

Advantages: A great storyline - follows the game well
Disadvantages: A long storyline - follows the game in which we know

...get this book, after reading Halo: The Fall of Reach. It was not being sold anywhere in the UK. Its excitement had died out after me being two years late. So I brought it of eBay. Having read the actual book, I thought it was quite good... but... when I was reading it, I kept on thinking to myself: "Couldn't anyone just play a game and write a book about the game and become a millionaire easily?" Yes, they could. It was annoyed me that the fact that ...
...by its self. So, could Halo: The Flood be useful to Bungie? I think so. Bungie copied some things on Halo: The Flood as well as The Fall of Reach. Like, take the Helljumpers, ODST's, the ability that the Covenant can talk! Their own storyline, which was featured in Halo 2. So I think that Halo: The Flood proved itself useful to Bungie and us. ...

UKJaguar 05.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Halo: The Flood - William C. Dietz

Hope you can Swim?

Advantages: Good read
Disadvantages: Have read better

Drowning world. = I decided to read this after reading a review written here. And yes this is a very good read, not that I would read it again but it was time well spent. You are taken on an adventure on the alien world of Fluva. A planet where it is virtually always constantly raining. Here the have 50 words for rain! You are taken through the watery world in the company of three unlikely companions. One is a warrior native to the ...
...the other is the human they are sent to rescue from the deep watery forests, where he has crashed. Along the way they will become friends, fight alien invaders and battle the flora and fauna for their very lives. The descriptive talent here of Mr Foster are really very good and often the reader is left with a creeping dread of the horrible creature or plant that he has dreamed up. The constant rain and watery peril the companions find themselves ...

MaldivesHoliday 03.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Drowning World - Alan Dean Foster

The Foundation series continues brilliantly

Advantages: Its one of the greatest science fiction book ever written
Disadvantages: None

Foundation and Empire is my favourite of Asimovs foundation series, it continues on from Foundation and at the start of the novel Terminus has established itself as the central light in its particular area of the universe. Terminus is a stable government with an edge over its near competitors due in part to a lack of resources on the planet which forces innovation and technological advance. Foundation has been watching the slow decline of the galactic ...
...historian who has arrived at Foundation in his bid to find the original home planet of man. The historian has travelled for the first time and has learnt everything from a book, this is used as a show of decline of the empire and an example of stagnation and laziness. Eventually the empire starts to notice the upstart young civilisation and inevitably starts a war led by a brilliant general called Ben Roise who at the start of the encounters wins ...

alderman55 03.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Foundation And Empire - Isaac Asimov