... It does it you were only allowed to write them when no one very much wanted them. Although it was 16,000 in the day of my first book iirc. Simon BJ ... ...
From http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=russell_t_davies_interviewed ... Has "wicked" acquired some new meaning of which I have not yet been informed?...
... I don't get it either. Or do bungalows have the same connotations as cottages now? I liked what he said about the 2007 Annual though: <<And I don’t think...
... [...] ... Good Lord. Play it over-safe much? ... I fail to see how 'The Wicked Bungalow' is any worse than 'The Clockwork Man'. Maybe Davies just has some...
... ... which is exactly the point I was making (to spell it out for the hard of understanding, it was that Davies is a reverse snob). ... But the whole series...
Being smug in a response to a post about smugness. Ah... the irony. Mondy ... From: wdstarr@... To: Jade_Pagoda@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March...
... Being ironic in a... oh, never mind. -- wds "I don't read to give books a fair chance. I read to enjoy books." -- Andrew Plotkin, rec.arts.sf.written...
A lot of people don't like _Transit_. Still. Take a look at the reviews at the Doctor Who Ratings Guide (http://pagefillers.com/dwrg/tran.htm). The most...
i could say i lot...but i think i can sum my response up by saying, I was what..twelve? when I read transit. And I got it. And I liked it. And I suppose I'm...
I just got around to reading Wesley Osam <wosam@...>'s part 2. My, but there seem to be a lot pf people posting to the Ratings Guide that I don't want...
But you could say that about any online forum that offers a wide variety of opinions. - Rob (who posts to the Ratings Guide and thought Wesley's argument very...
"Rob Matthews" <slippy_slaar@...> said: [ wdstarr said: ] ... Probably true, but: (1) There are a lot of opinions out there that I don't agree with and...
... But that, too, is true of most places on the internet, and like it or not it is something that inevitably results from people giving their opinions. It...
... Ah, okay. I had no intent of singling out or insulting the Ratings Guide; it was the specific people who constituted that sample that were the target of...
... You feel *contemptuous* of someone beause they don't like a book that you do. I mean, you're right and Transit is dandy, but I really think feeling...
... Have you read the post that he was reacting to, and the specific statements quoted within? Part of my point was that when you read repeated comments like...
... particular ... from ... Ratings ... that ... that ... think ... of a ... I suppose if one perceives their reasons for disliking it as deeply irrational and...
... All reasonable enough points - except for the crashing about the ears of that last one. Finding people's peculiarly virulent negative reactions to a book...
... Obviously I can't be unbiased here, but... my contempt -- and that may not be the right word, but I'm not sure what is -- isn't based upon the virulently...
... 'Transit' is, compared to the 'Doctor Who' that went before -- and that certainly includes 'Timewyrm: Revelation, don't you think it doesn't -- nasty, and...
Any chance of putting aside the question of smugness and focusing instead on the issue of 'branding,' which to me at least is rather terrifying? I mean, call...
Granted, I think RTD is overreacting somewhat on the Wicked Bungalow thing, (albeit it is ultimately his call) but could you expand on this a bit - (And if...
Take a look at the lineup of writers for the forthcoming collection, Destination Prague. http://www.doctorwho.co.uk/drwho_books/ST20_destinationprague.shtml ...
From: "Richard Salter" <chababug@...> ... It's good that they're not just more of the usual suspects, and it's cool that they're all published authors....