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95966
Some interesting facts and figures from the end of a long interview with RTD in the Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml? ...
Simon Cooper
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Mar 12, 2007
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95967
... And how many did the novels sell when they were good? It was that 'few thousand', wasn't it? Makes your heart sink....
Steven Kitson
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Mar 12, 2007
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95968
... 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 ... ...
Simon Bucher-Jones
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95969
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?...
Wesley Osam
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Mar 14, 2007
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95970
... 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...
Brax
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95971
... [...] ... 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...
Steven Kitson
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Mar 15, 2007
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95972
... quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html...
Conrad Slater
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95973
Posted by: "Steven Kitson" skitson@... HYPERLINK "http://profiles.yahoo.com/skitsonuk"skitsonuk <mailto:skitson@...?Subject= ...
Nick Campbell
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95974
... ... 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...
Steven Kitson
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95975
... 'Paul Magrs in "Associated With Smugness" Shocker!' Gosh, who *ever* would have suspected it? -- wds...
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95976
Being smug in a response to a post about smugness. Ah... the irony. Mondy ... From: wdstarr@... To: Jade_Pagoda@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, March...
Ian Mond
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Mar 18, 2007
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95977
... 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...
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95978
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...
Wesley Osam
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Mar 18, 2007
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95979
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...
James Commins
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Mar 19, 2007
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95980
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...
wdstarr@...
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Mar 21, 2007
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95981
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
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Mar 21, 2007
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95982
"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...
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Mar 21, 2007
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95983
... 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...
Rob Matthews
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Mar 21, 2007
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95984
... 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...
wdstarr@...
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Mar 21, 2007
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95985
... 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...
Stuart Douglas
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Mar 21, 2007
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95986
... 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...
Wesley Osam
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Mar 21, 2007
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95987
... particular ... from ... Ratings ... that ... that ... think ... of a ... I suppose if one perceives their reasons for disliking it as deeply irrational and...
Rob Matthews
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95988
... 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...
Stuart Douglas
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95989
... 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...
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Mar 22, 2007
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95990
... '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...
Steven Kitson
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Mar 22, 2007
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95991
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...
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Mar 22, 2007
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95992
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...
Rob Matthews
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Mar 22, 2007
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95993
Take a look at the lineup of writers for the forthcoming collection, Destination Prague. http://www.doctorwho.co.uk/drwho_books/ST20_destinationprague.shtml ...
Richard Salter
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Mar 22, 2007
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95994
Richard Salter <chababug@...> wrote ... The next one, "Snapshots" <http://www.doctorwho.co.uk/drwho_books/ST21_snapshots.shtml>, has an interesting...
Henry Potts
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Mar 22, 2007
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95995
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....
Philip Purser-Hallard
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