gingerreader99's review
5.0
What did I just read ?!?! I was told it would be funny. What I was told was true! This is nothing like any Doctor Who story I have ever read before! Definitely one of my favourites. A new style as well for me, being told in letters and entries in diaries or journals. There were even moments where I had to stop reading and just laugh. Specifically when Nero compares himself to being a cat so that he can catch Barbara who is a "mouse". Dead. Dieing. So good.
jazzab1971's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
5.0
An amusing and unusua retelling of the 1st Doctor story The Romans.
The story is told using a variety of diary entries, letters and extracts from autobiographies.
The Doctor's journal entries are sublime, as are Chesterton's letters to the headmaster of Coal Hill School.
Quite probably my favourite Target novelisation.
The story is told using a variety of diary entries, letters and extracts from autobiographies.
The Doctor's journal entries are sublime, as are Chesterton's letters to the headmaster of Coal Hill School.
Quite probably my favourite Target novelisation.
nwhyte's review against another edition
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1021250.html[return][return]I had been looking forward to this one, famed as one of the best Doctor Who novelisations, and I was not disappointed. Cotton has recast the narrative of Dennis Spooner's TV script into epistolary/diary form: letters from Ian Chesterton to his headmaster, the Doctor's own diary, letters from Ascalis the assassin and Locusta the poisoner, and contributions also from Barbara, the Emperor Nero, and Nero's wife Popp
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