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taleyaRe-reading The Crystal Bucephalus (double-checking a plot point for Kamelion)...
Sweet shit, I'd forgotten how good this story is. Fifth and Turlough in silks! Characterisation! Plot! Universe in embolism! Technobabble! Furry coffee-table like dog things! Giant horses made of lumps of rock! Slashiness!
I love this book. Seriously. It's a damned good read, and has spot on characterisation. Hinton even manages to take the tired old chestnut of "Let's lock Turlough up" and actually STILL make his actions integral to the plot. He's not a whiner, he's not a pain in the arse, he's not being sodomised by a probe (don't ask, and don't read King of Terror) - he actually gets to DO things, and there's this lovely "Gentleman of the universe" thing going all about.
He's still a bastard though :D
Time travelling restaurants, a threesome between temporal physicists, a decaying empire that brings to mind Foundation and technotalk~! lots of it without destroying or losing the reader, and no one is made to feel an idiot. I love it. Seriously. It's aimed at an adult mind, and hits the mark each time. Even Kamelion gets a look in, a character that's not only in character, but sympathetic and part of the plot. No one gets left behind.
I won't talk about tegan. I dislike her. But I will say that even she becomes bearable o.O
Funny how the Doctor has a couple pages dedicated to his terribly in char restrained reaction to Turlough's "death" ("Turlough was a good friend. We had a lot in common") and yet Tegan is more "ah shit, not another one" :D Strong!fifth! (actively grabbing a character who has pushed him too far by the neck and lifting him up - "I have lived a long time, and I've faced tyrants and dictators that would leave you in the nursery. But I still remember the words of my tutor, Borusa: Power over others detracts from yourself. Absolute power over others means you have no power over yourself." I have been offered absolute power, more power than you could possibly imagine.") And the TARDIS being torn apart in the vortex, but fighting with every inch of her being - those scenes alone evoke the most wonderful mental images with the descriptions of the representations of the engines and true heart of the TARDIS as she begins to come apart - and the Doctor feeling it ("Unfortunately even she has her limits. We can't have more than another fifteen minutes." He suddenly placed a hand on his chest. "She's not going meekly though. Definitely raging against the dying of the light," he gasped.) This shits over even the frankly brilliant delivery of "You're killing my ship!" in the BFA Singularity.
This is plot, and great WHO plot at that. Four seperate plot lines intertwining and gradually working together to come into a massive climax that literally makes the book bloody hard to put down. Plot, characterisation, damned good writing - its' spot on in every way....and one of the best MA's I've ever come across. To be honest, this book was what drew me into the MA universe after I'd given up on the NA's in abject disgust. If you can get it, READ IT.
(Yes this is a bit incoherent and fangirly. but I'm trying not to spoil too much, and as an aside? Seriously - if my fucking co-worker puts that FUCKING JAMES BLUNT CD ON REPEAT FOR A FIFTH TIME TONIGHT ALONE...I am going to jam it between his buttocks and slam him crack-first down on the corner of the speaker. SHUT THE HELL UP!)
Sweet shit, I'd forgotten how good this story is. Fifth and Turlough in silks! Characterisation! Plot! Universe in embolism! Technobabble! Furry coffee-table like dog things! Giant horses made of lumps of rock! Slashiness!
I love this book. Seriously. It's a damned good read, and has spot on characterisation. Hinton even manages to take the tired old chestnut of "Let's lock Turlough up" and actually STILL make his actions integral to the plot. He's not a whiner, he's not a pain in the arse, he's not being sodomised by a probe (don't ask, and don't read King of Terror) - he actually gets to DO things, and there's this lovely "Gentleman of the universe" thing going all about.
He's still a bastard though :D
Time travelling restaurants, a threesome between temporal physicists, a decaying empire that brings to mind Foundation and technotalk~! lots of it without destroying or losing the reader, and no one is made to feel an idiot. I love it. Seriously. It's aimed at an adult mind, and hits the mark each time. Even Kamelion gets a look in, a character that's not only in character, but sympathetic and part of the plot. No one gets left behind.
I won't talk about tegan. I dislike her. But I will say that even she becomes bearable o.O
Funny how the Doctor has a couple pages dedicated to his terribly in char restrained reaction to Turlough's "death" ("Turlough was a good friend. We had a lot in common") and yet Tegan is more "ah shit, not another one" :D Strong!fifth! (actively grabbing a character who has pushed him too far by the neck and lifting him up - "I have lived a long time, and I've faced tyrants and dictators that would leave you in the nursery. But I still remember the words of my tutor, Borusa: Power over others detracts from yourself. Absolute power over others means you have no power over yourself." I have been offered absolute power, more power than you could possibly imagine.") And the TARDIS being torn apart in the vortex, but fighting with every inch of her being - those scenes alone evoke the most wonderful mental images with the descriptions of the representations of the engines and true heart of the TARDIS as she begins to come apart - and the Doctor feeling it ("Unfortunately even she has her limits. We can't have more than another fifteen minutes." He suddenly placed a hand on his chest. "She's not going meekly though. Definitely raging against the dying of the light," he gasped.) This shits over even the frankly brilliant delivery of "You're killing my ship!" in the BFA Singularity.
This is plot, and great WHO plot at that. Four seperate plot lines intertwining and gradually working together to come into a massive climax that literally makes the book bloody hard to put down. Plot, characterisation, damned good writing - its' spot on in every way....and one of the best MA's I've ever come across. To be honest, this book was what drew me into the MA universe after I'd given up on the NA's in abject disgust. If you can get it, READ IT.
(Yes this is a bit incoherent and fangirly. but I'm trying not to spoil too much, and as an aside? Seriously - if my fucking co-worker puts that FUCKING JAMES BLUNT CD ON REPEAT FOR A FIFTH TIME TONIGHT ALONE...I am going to jam it between his buttocks and slam him crack-first down on the corner of the speaker. SHUT THE HELL UP!)
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Date: 2006-04-05 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-05 12:39 pm (UTC)Thankfully I had spare earphones in my bag, and my Ipod. Iced earth. Loud. He turns it up, looking at me in annoyance, I do same. He turns up, I turn up.
Bitch, you've got a single speaker on a shitty machine, I've got an original Ipod that goes to bullshit speaker volumes and a pair of sennheisers. I'm goign to win.
*starts on the finntroll*
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Date: 2006-04-05 01:09 pm (UTC)And I must go and work *hugs* Laters!
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Date: 2006-04-05 02:30 pm (UTC)God I hate that guy.
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Date: 2006-04-05 02:38 pm (UTC)only after hearing him sing in that girly, testicle-less voice "goodbye my lover" for the fifth time ONE FUCKING SHIFT, will you know the true meaning of HATE
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Date: 2006-04-05 02:44 pm (UTC)When it comes on the radio here I just change the station, anyone arguing finds themselves listening to my iPod put through the stereo with death metal playing for 8 hours straight.
We lost our main radio lover a few months back and of the 8 employees I have, 6 of them are metal heads so they bring in compilations of mudvayne, metallica, pantera, slayer, lamb of god, devildriver, coal chamber, SOAD etc etc....it's a very agreeable situation.
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Date: 2006-04-05 02:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-05 04:31 pm (UTC)*eyetwitch*
I'm fine. No, really.
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Date: 2006-04-05 05:01 pm (UTC)*shudder*