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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Enjoyable story, particularly good dialog between the Doctor and Rose. ( )More a children's book than the old style Doctor Who novels but a good read. Very entertaining. My book review: http://ganimede.dreamwidth.org/11685.... Great story with lots of unexpected twists. http://nhw.livejournal.com/761346.htm... This is the first of the Doctor Who adventures to be published following the series' revival in 2005. It has the Ninth Doctor and Rose visiting London in 1924, encountering clockwork robots reminiscent of those that the Tenth Doctor meets in "The Girl in the Fireplace", having adventures around Big Ben not awfully dissimilar from "The Empty Child". At first I thought it was going to be about an anti-communist revolution in a small eastern European country. However, we veered into the realms of sf fairly rapidly. (And some major implausibilities about the rightful heir to the throne of Russia and haemophilia.) Christopher Eccleston's TV characterisation of the Ninth Doctor was very memorable indeed. Richards, unfortunately, doesn't really carry it through to the page here, and the book could practically have been written with any Doctor-plus-female-companion combination. Also, the title doesn't really make sense; as mentioned above, we get a fair bit of clockwork in the book, but not much about directions of rotation, clockwise or anti-. 0.060 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0563486287, Hardcover)England 1924: the Doctor and Rose find themselves caught up in the hunt for a murderer. With faceless killers closing in, can they solve the mystery of the Clockwise Man before London itself is destroyed? This is the first of a new series of hardcovers featuring the new Doctor Who from the new TV series.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:13 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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