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4.0 out of 5 stars
Overall, a cracking good read, January 24, 2010
This review is from: Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) (Hardcover)
On the whole, I've enjoyed most of the books in the Doctor Ten series; they're quick, fun little reads and I don't ask much from them other than being good with characterization (check) with a good story (check) and marginally good editing (well...); and it's that last that lead me to a written review.
While overall, I found "The Slitheen Excursion" one of the finest of the Doctor Ten series -- it's sharp, it's funny, it's fun, it's well-researched, and author Simon Guerrier has created one of the best companions for Ten since Donna in vacationing university student June (who I'd actually love to see again), the problem I had with this book was the preponderance of misused words -- constant uses of your in place of you're (or reversed), a merman alien who slithered on his "fishy tale" (big oops there) and when June "laughed out loud at the site of the TARDIS" (as in, she was beholding it -- sight -- not reaching the site where it stood). Every time I'd run into one of these mistakes I found it very jarring, and it increases my worries about publishing houses that rely on spellcheck programs over a line editor they can't afford to pay.
But other than those errors, it's really a good book, and I'm glad they're still printing them for us; and for a while, anyway, we'll have Doctor Ten to enjoy.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Plot, Great Characters, Poor Editing, May 17, 2010
This review is from: Doctor Who: The Slitheen Excursion (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover)) (Hardcover)
I agree with K. Coleman's review. This is an excellent Doctor Who spin-off story about the Slitheen and Doctor Ten. Excursion travel into Earth's past is just the sort of scam that you might expect from the Slitheen, and it's a fun read. But the editing is really poor, something unexpected from the Beeb. It is annoying, and K Coleman is right, when you run across one of the more egregious errors it does jar you out of the story.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointment, October 2, 2010
I should have known better than to buy a book with spelling/grammar errors. If the editors miss mistakes like that, they surely haven't bothered to actually read it. I have read fanfiction that has better quality than this.
The doctor was unrecognizable (so much so that I checked the cover twice to make sure that this was indeed the 10th doctor), the supporting character June a total bore and the rest of the characters one-dimensional, interchangeable and acting completely illogical.
This gets two stars instead of one because it started out fairly good, describing June's first encounter with The Doctor (which is why I bought the book). The story is for the most part told from June's point of view, which isn't a bad thing in itself as long as the story focuses on The Doctor. Instead we see her running around a lot with no real purpose.
I'm sorry to say that I didn't finish the book, so I can't comment on the plot, except that up to the point where I got, it was all over the place.
I greatly enjoyed 'Prisoner of the Daleks' and 'The Nightmare on Black Island' and I recommend those instead of this one. I will not be reading any more books from this writer.
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