neeewwwww adventures
Friday, 31 October 2008 12:01![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I have been reading a few of the New Adventures, since I own some of them. A while ago I read Sky Pirates and yesterday I finished The Also People, which was rather fantastic. OK, a lot of the world-building stuff leans heavily on the Culture books, but it's so well done (and, according to wikipedia, acknowledged by the author) that I can't be annoyed with it. The plot is slight but satisfying and best of all, it's really laugh-out-loud funny. And, although there's some great meaty stuff for Roz and Benny in particular, it's not too heavy handed and our heroes get to have fun, especially at the end where they stick around for a few days for a holiday.
I was a bit worried that the New Adventures would be heavy on the "mythologising the Doctor" stuff, which I rather hate, and there were elements of that in there, but the companions got to be angry about it ("You overbearing multi-lived bastard, I'm going to rip out your hearts and stuff them up your nostrils!" - ILU, Benny) and mock him for it (the bit at the end where Chris and Roz find the Doctor buried in the sand and speculate loudly about how this is definitely part of a subtle, possibly cosmic, Grand Plan, and not at all because he fell asleep and some children came along and buried him). It was more of a problem at the end of Sky Pirates, which on the whole I enjoyed less than The Also People - although I like Dave Stone's humour, it was also full of icky-just-because-we-CAN bits, which I like a lot less. Both books did a great job with the relationship between Roz and Benny, too: they're not insta-friends, they don't have all that much in common and they don't always get on, but when they do they have a lovely comradely dynamic.
Last week I read Nightshade which after a slow start turned into a cracking read, with one caveat. Ace's romance of the week was very sweet, but I hated the fact that the Doctor accidentally-on-purpose failed to take her back after she'd decided to stay with Robin. It would have been just as easy to have her change her mind after the side trip to the past and decide that she wanted to keep travelling after all. BAH. Apparently this is part of a plot arc? I still don't like it.
And I have more Reading Bounty for this lunchtime: Jenny-at-work has lent me the latest issues of Angel: After the Fall (based on past experience I shall enjoy these greatly despite not having the FIRST CLUE about what's actually going on, seriously, they could have printed the pages or even the panels in the wrong order and I wouldn't be able to tell) and the first Spike ones, plus I accidentally bought Short Trips: A Day In The Life off of eBay, which looks to be full of yayness. Ace 'n' Hex! Chaudhry 'n' Hoffman! Benny! Lots of other teams I love! Brilliant.
I was a bit worried that the New Adventures would be heavy on the "mythologising the Doctor" stuff, which I rather hate, and there were elements of that in there, but the companions got to be angry about it ("You overbearing multi-lived bastard, I'm going to rip out your hearts and stuff them up your nostrils!" - ILU, Benny) and mock him for it (the bit at the end where Chris and Roz find the Doctor buried in the sand and speculate loudly about how this is definitely part of a subtle, possibly cosmic, Grand Plan, and not at all because he fell asleep and some children came along and buried him). It was more of a problem at the end of Sky Pirates, which on the whole I enjoyed less than The Also People - although I like Dave Stone's humour, it was also full of icky-just-because-we-CAN bits, which I like a lot less. Both books did a great job with the relationship between Roz and Benny, too: they're not insta-friends, they don't have all that much in common and they don't always get on, but when they do they have a lovely comradely dynamic.
Last week I read Nightshade which after a slow start turned into a cracking read, with one caveat. Ace's romance of the week was very sweet, but I hated the fact that the Doctor accidentally-on-purpose failed to take her back after she'd decided to stay with Robin. It would have been just as easy to have her change her mind after the side trip to the past and decide that she wanted to keep travelling after all. BAH. Apparently this is part of a plot arc? I still don't like it.
And I have more Reading Bounty for this lunchtime: Jenny-at-work has lent me the latest issues of Angel: After the Fall (based on past experience I shall enjoy these greatly despite not having the FIRST CLUE about what's actually going on, seriously, they could have printed the pages or even the panels in the wrong order and I wouldn't be able to tell) and the first Spike ones, plus I accidentally bought Short Trips: A Day In The Life off of eBay, which looks to be full of yayness. Ace 'n' Hex! Chaudhry 'n' Hoffman! Benny! Lots of other teams I love! Brilliant.