The Doctor and Rose arrive with intentions of going to the British Empire Exhibition. The Clockwise Man is a steam-punk style adventure that takes place in 1924 London. Its purpose is to share the adventures that happen off camera. It is not necessary for enjoying the tv series. It takes place between the episodes "The Long Game" and "Father's Day" I may check out other Ninth or Tenth Doctor novels by different authors, but I dunno yet.
Which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There were little bits here and there all throughout the book that just made no sense-for example, a bit where the Doctor is talking to Rose and seems unable to remember the word 'syllable', and as if he somehow doesn't have a perfect grasp of English. Worse yet, the author seemed to have very little grasp of how to write either the Doctor or Rose as characters. The bones of a good plot were there, and it did rather feel like a Doctor Who episode at least in terms of the story, but the writing was very pedestrian-and Richards' fascination with sentence fragments, while not quite as pronounced as Annie Proulx's, was still enough to grate. I picked up the first one, The Clockwise Man, by Justin Richards. So I was rather interested when I was browsing at the University Bookstore the other day and found out that the BBC has been releasing hardback Ninth and Tenth Doctor novels.
Eccleston held the role for entirely too little time. As I've posted about on my journal earlier, the Ninth Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, completely sold me on being a Doctor Who fan at last.
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