In January next year! And Big finish have the titles of some of the stories. You can find them at the pre-order page here.
So now I’m seriously thinking about ordering the lot.
Category: Books and Audiobooks
I really love audiobooks. A good story is the best thing.
The Many Coloured Land
I read the 4 books of the Saga of the exiles years ago, in fact a lot of years ago. Anyway, it’s one of these books that I’ve always thought about reading again, but I know I’d never get around to it. Then I found it as an audio book. Only the first book sadly, but I thought I’d get it anyway.
It’s fun so far, not wonderful. The story is ok, but the narration leaves something to be desired. I’ll probably stick with it, and my real hope is that they bring the other 3 books out as audio books too. If they don’t it’ll be a real shame.
More Who
Having finished listening to the final 8th Dr series, or at least the last one that’s been recorded at least I thought I’d listen to ‘An Earthly Child’. Which I’d started listening to once before but hadn’t finished.
An interesting story but I don’t know where it fits in to the chronology.
A ‘last’ episode
I listened to the final episode of the 8th Doctor’s (Paul McGann), 4th season. It was a sad ending, an excellent season, and a great story.
I really hope that there’s another season for the 8th Doctor. It would be such a shame if there was no more future 8th Doctor.
Tom Baker coming to Big Finish
I was really tempted to pre-order the new Tom Baker series of stories that are coming from Big Finish. Then I read a post at Tom Baker’s blog which said that they aren’t due to be released until Jan 2012!
I had really thought that they would be out much sooner, but I guess I have no option but to wait, and I’m sure that they’ll be really good. Still, I had hoped that these stories would come sooner.
Listening to Bourne
I really liked the Bourne films, all three, so much so that I thought I’d try and listen to the following stories as audiobooks. I’ve started with the Bourne Legacy. So far it isn’t bad, but when I started I didn’t like it much at all.
The book is a lot slower that the films, which is understandable of course, but it is quite slow actually, and very complex. I’ll see this book through until the end and then decide if I’m going to have a go at any of the others. There are about 6 books that come after the main action of the films, so there’s plenty to listen to.
Situation Vacant
I listened to this 8th Doctor story yesterday and I can say that it is excellent. A great idea for a story, funny and really well played. It has a great cast and took some great turns in the story that I didn’t expect at all.
I’d thoroughly recommend it to anyone.
‘Death in Blackpool’ (Doctor Who)
I listened to this CD today. It is the first episode of season 4 of the 8th Doctor. Overall not a bad story, by no means the best, but pretty significant in many any other ways!
I’m still enjoying the 8th Doctor series of stories, there’s some fantastic stuff in there. So I’m looking to the rest of season 4, and I’m hoping that there will be a season 5.
The 8 Truths and World Wide Web (Dr Who stories)
These are 2 8th Dr (Paul McGann) stories that I listened to recently. They are at the end of series 3 and they’re a two part story, and they were really good.
Some of the other series 3 stories didn’t really work for me, but these 2 were great fun, and sort of made up for it all. So I’m looking forward to moving on to series 4 soon.
Dr Who: Scapegoat
This weekend I’ve managed to get some time to listen to more Dr Who audio CDs which is great. I started off with Scapegoat from season 3 of the 8th Doctor stories.
Scapegoat is a standard Dr Who story. What do I mean by that? Well, there’s no story arc that it is part of, there’s no real links to any creatures in the Who universe, it is just a story. In a way I like that, and in another I don’t.
On the one hand it is good just to get a simple story out there and hear it and that’s it. On the other hand I do like the big story arc and so when there’s a story that doesn’t really move it on it can feel like it doesn’t contribute to the season as a whole. Having said all of that it was a good story and I did like it.
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