The Reference Book Wars pt 11

[SiHart]

It's the final rounds this week and we're mopping up the ones that don't fit in anywhere else this week!

Your choices are:












Vote now!

Si xx

[SiHart]

I went for the Discontinuity Guide because it's fun and doesn't have any of the factual errors of either Travels or The Doctors...
The Book of Lists is fine for a book comprised of lists and I always liked the Technical Manual when I was a young'un.

Si xx

[Stuart Wallis]

I only read the Book Of Lists and bit of The Completely Useless Encyclopedia. I thought the latter lived up to its name, so Book Of Lists it is.

Oh, and Si, where did The Discontinuity Guide come into it?

[Lord President]

The Technical Manual was my bible when growing up, so it gets my vote! I do love the Book of Lists though, it is the ideal toilet read!

[Andrew Curnow]

No contest, I'm going for The Completely Useless Encyclopedia (which I assume is what Si's going for!!) as it's just in places very funny. My favourite is probably the bit about putting Metebelis Three into a spellchecker and it coming out with Meatballs Three!!

Of the others, I think bruv had the technical manual but it's an odd book - never quite sure what the point of it was. Travel without the TARDIS is useful if you're going somewhere, but not really a rivetting read. And The Doctors is OK, despite missing out a whole season, and does actually have some photos I've not seen elsewhere.

[Dirk Gently]

I've gone for The Book of Lists. I love lists.

[Rob McCow]

Completely Useless Encyclopedia, I think. Travel Without The TARDIS is quite cute, the Technical Manual is a bit too technical, Lists is too anal and 'The Doctors' is too old, too bad and too Welsh.

[Stuart Wallis]

I'm saying nothing about Tom Jones!

[Dave Tudor]

The only one of these which I have read is The Completely Useless Encyclopedia, and it's a genuinely funny read - in fact, possibly the only Who-related reference book which has made me laugh out loud more than once. It gets my vote.