View Poll Results: Which is your favourite reference book?
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21st Feb 2009, 11:03 AM #1
Reference Book Wars: Quarter Final 2
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21st Feb 2009, 11:18 AM #2
It's partly nostalgia, but mostly the fabulous artwork inside - Cybermen wins it for me!
And I'm not just talking about the Skilleter (I think) stuff, I loved the schematic style drawings of the Cybermen designs throughout the years. Brilliant!Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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21st Feb 2009, 11:55 AM #3
I'm with Steve on this. Cybermen is really informative.
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21st Feb 2009, 12:03 PM #4
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It was so close this one between Cyberman and the paperback The Making of Doctor Who.
Cybermen has the better pictures...
But The Making of book has the better plot synopsis!
And also has the sentence "Terrence Dicks phones Barry Letts up. The Giant Robot has been a success. Doctor Who has been a success. Tom Baker has been a success."
I'm not sure that's word for word, my copy is well destroyed and lost so if I had to but one of them again, I'd pick The Making Of.
Although I remember a school friend having the Peter Davison book and letting me borrow it in secret during the morning break.
It was if he was giving me porn or drugs the way he was so anxious not to be outed as a Doctor Who fan!
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21st Feb 2009, 1:13 PM #5Wayne Guest
'Cybermen' is the deserved winner here, but i'm giving 'The Dalek Omnibus' a vote, for nostalgia reasons.
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21st Feb 2009, 7:09 PM #6
Similarly, although Cybermen is likely to be a very worthy winner, I'm voting for The Making of Doctor Who. I never actually had that book, but my brother did and I can still vaguely remember it being like some kind of mythical gift from the gods in the build-up to him getting it. Remember this was even pre-Doctor Who Weekly, so every single word of it, all the stuff about old stories, about production of the show, all the photos, etc, were new to us. Just fantastic - and it has a lovely bit of Achilleos artwork on the front too!!
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23rd Feb 2009, 12:59 PM #7
Cybermen is stunning in almost every way!
One Day, I shall come back, Yes, I shall come back,
Until them, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties, Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine!
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24th Feb 2009, 11:54 PM #8
It should be Cybermen, of course, as it's such a damned good, detailed, and well-researched book, but it's nostalgia which wins it for me here: I was going to go for The Monster Book, which just fascinated me when I got it for my tenth birthday, but in the end I voted for The Making Of A Television Series, which, even if it does feature the odd inaccuracy or two, offered a very interesting insight into the making of the show at the time, and thus, it was another of those books which I borrowed from the library on more than one occasion!
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