Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket (Doctor Who) | Justin Richards

Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket (Doctor Who) | Justin Richards | A Delightful Entry in the Series

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	Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket (Doctor Who) Justin Richards BBC Books, 2006 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Starfall - a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope of making a fortune from the mines can find easier picking elsewhere. But they still come - for the romance of it, or old-fashioned organic mining. Or in the hope of finding the lost treasure of Hamlek Glint - scourge of the spaceways, privateer, adventurer and bandit. Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint's lost treasure waiting to be found? And does the fabled Resurrection Casket - the key to eternal life - really exist? With the help of new friends, and to the horror of new enemies, The Doctor and Rose aim to find out...

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Another winner from the Doctor Who series!

If you enjoy the Doctor Who television show, start reading the books based on the new series immediately! Well written and enjoyable, they are a welcome addition to the Doctor Who family. Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket is fast-paced and could easily be an episode itself. The author stays true to the television characters while breathing new
life into the story. I highly recommend this book!

A Delightful Entry in the Series

'The Resurrection Casket' is a fun, breezy read and I enjoyed the "Steampunk" aspect of the story, with the steam-only technology of the planet "Starfall" providing interesting and amusing visual images for the reader. The author, Justin Richards, did a fine job capturing the Tennant-ness of the Tenth Doctor and the often-witty dialogue captured the spirit of Doctor Who as well as any book in the BBC Books series. The Doctor sounds like the Doctor and Rose Tyler sounds like Rose Tyler. There were a few references to actual continuity from Series 1 & 2 of the TV show, a welcome addition for those of us who like these books to be somewhat connected to the series "canon". Top it off with a nice ending, and you have one of the better books in the series.

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Enjoyment

I really enjoy all the Doctor Who books. They are funny and just plain fun entertainment.

Four stars for the book, two for the audio version

The Resurrection Casket is a 10th-Doctor tie-in novel, an original story by Justin Richards featuring David Tennant's Doctor with Rose Tyler. In this story, the TARDIS is drawn into a sort of mechanical dead-spot in space, where something called a zek drains the power of all electronic technology, leaving an area of floating hulks of abandoned ships, also haunted by krarks, sort of space-borne giant sharks that feed on the oxygen inside the ships and any living being they can get their fangs on. The few people who live on the planets of the area get by on steam power, even in their spacefaring vessels. The result is a Treasure-Island-inspired tale featuring pirates, evil robots, lost treasure, madman and a monster named Kevin that apologizes politely to his victims before dispatching them.

The plot has far-fetched moments (steam powered spaceships??) but the author is enthusiastic enough in embracing the setting and assumptions and energetic enough in plotting and pacing that I was carried along through the story and quite enjoyed it.

I haven't seen any of the 10th Doctor episodes so I can't speak to the characterization of the Doctor as compared to the TV presentation of Tennant, but the character certainly had the feel of a generic Doctor--full of wonder and enthusiasm, naturally brilliant, and quick to call out the bad guys on their evil ways. It's not high literature by any means, but as a way to fill a Doctor Who craving when new episodes of the show aren't available, it will certainly fill the bill.

I also listened to the audio version of the book downloaded from [...]. I listened to it before reading the book and found it a frustrating experience. The problem is the abridgement--great chunks of description, exposition and even whole characters are lopped out in the interest of time. It leaves a story that is skeletal, with poorly realized characters and motivations and great leaps in the story where the characters suddenly move from point A to point B with no explanation of how they got there.

The one bright spot of the audio version is that David Tennant himself reads it and has a delightful voice, particularly (naturally) when reading the Doctor's own dialogue, and made me look even more forward to seeing his episodes.

However, reading the book made me realize that while still fluffy, the full version with more description, characterization and the complete plot, is a worthwhile experience. I would recommend the audio version only if you are dying to hear David Tennant's voice and have already read the full version; otherwise take a pass and stick with the printed page.

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Another exciting adventure!

This was my very first Doctor Who novel. I was delighted with how much fun I had reading this book! I believe the characterizations were shot on, the story was fresh, and it was another brilliant adventure with the Doctor and Rose Tyler! I look forward to catching more of the Who novels. :)

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