woollypigs reviewed Shada by Gareth Roberts
Review of 'Shada' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Made me laugh and escape the black dog for a few hours, so yes 5 stars.
416 pages
Published Jan. 7, 2014 by Ace.
Shada (Doctor Who: The Lost Adventures by Douglas Adams)
5 stars
(10 reviews)
PromptedInkReads reviewed Doctor Who - Shada by Gareth Roberts
Review of 'Doctor Who - Shada' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
An excellent adaptation of the lost Doctor Who serial, made better with Romana (Lalla Ward) reading it and John Leeson as the voice of K-9. I enjoyed listening to it from start to finish even when the story seemed to drag itself out. There are some points in which the incidental music gets louder than the narration, which almost lost me, but those moments only lasted in brief. This rendition of Douglas Adams's would-be third story for Doctor Who personally does it justice.
NowWeAreAllTom reviewed Doctor Who - Shada by Gareth Roberts
Review of 'Doctor Who - Shada' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
To call this the definitive Shada is probably an oxymoron, but it comes damn close. At any rate it's the most cohesive and polished version. I was worried after Eoin Colfer's fake Douglas Adams book that another fake Douglas Adams book was the last thing we needed, but Gareth Roberts has delivered a take on Douglas Adams that sounds neither like the man himself nor like an inferior copy but rather a well-executed, loving tribute. Any fan of Doctor Who or Douglas Adams ought to check this out.
Pentapod reviewed Shada by Gareth Roberts
Review of 'Shada' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This is a novel created from Douglas Adams' long lost TV script for Tom Baker's Doctor Who, an episode which was never filmed. The author/editor Roberts has painstakingly reviewed the old scripts and notes and pretty successfully untangled a novel out of it. I haven't read any other Doctor Who novels so I don't know how this one compares, and it's been many years since I watched a Tom Baker episode of Doctor Who. This feels pretty true to the Tom Baker Doctor I remember, and there are echoes of Douglas Adams in the humor, but his full tone doesn't really shine through. I assume this is because his writing was originally as a TV script and Roberts has added the novel narrative, which is where Douglas Adams' wit normally shows itself in the absurd details and side notes. Roberts has done a decent job however and it's an enjoyable …
This is a novel created from Douglas Adams' long lost TV script for Tom Baker's Doctor Who, an episode which was never filmed. The author/editor Roberts has painstakingly reviewed the old scripts and notes and pretty successfully untangled a novel out of it. I haven't read any other Doctor Who novels so I don't know how this one compares, and it's been many years since I watched a Tom Baker episode of Doctor Who. This feels pretty true to the Tom Baker Doctor I remember, and there are echoes of Douglas Adams in the humor, but his full tone doesn't really shine through. I assume this is because his writing was originally as a TV script and Roberts has added the novel narrative, which is where Douglas Adams' wit normally shows itself in the absurd details and side notes. Roberts has done a decent job however and it's an enjoyable and interesting read and worthwhile for a Douglas Adams fan. I can't decide between giving this 3 and 4 stars; ideally it would be 3.5 I think.
