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Loading... Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiangby Terrance Dicks
![]() Books Read in 2022 (604) No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() You could not get a more textbook definition of a late '70s Doctor Who novelization. That means it has the full benefit of the excellent dialogue from Robert Holmes' original script, as well as the drive of Holmes' story. Dicks, however, hasn't really added anything to the story, and now that Talons has been available in so many home formats - VHS, DVD, even script book - there isn't much to power the novel other than sheer nostalgia. Christopher Benjamin is a fun choice of reader, but he doesn't have a huge range of voices or anything else to seriously recommend spending money on the audibook. Putting it simply: if you're a fan of The Talons of Weng-Chiang, give it a whirl, as it's likely to spark off many pleasant memories. Otherwise, you can skip it and not feel badly in any way. http://nhw.livejournal.com/1007902.html Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang loses out in the visual stakes compared with the TV version, but gains a bit with occasional tight-third narrative from Leela's point of view, which accentuates one of the successful aspects of the story, the confrontation between her primitive experience and the Victorian era. https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-talons-of-weng-chiang-by-dale-smith-and-robe... The one difference I picked up on this time is that Teresa, one of Greel’s victims, is clearly coded as a sex worker in the TV story but is a gambling hostess in the adaptation. no reviews | add a review
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An unabridged reading of a classic novelization based on the popular 1977 TV serial. The Doctor brings Leela to Victorian London to meet her ancestors (though Agincourt might have been more her style). The TARDIS materializes in the darkest heart of the city, where life--and death--is anything but dull. A hapless cabbie is slain by agents of a secret Chinese cult. Young women are disappearing at an alarming rate, and Li H'sen Chang, the Palace Theatre's celebrated magician, may knowmore about that than he admits. Li H'sen's ventriloquist dummy, Mr. Sin, appears to have a life of its own, and the rat problem in the sewers is bigger than anyone can imagine. No library descriptions found. |
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