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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.92
EAN num: 9780563486435
ISBN number: 0563486430
Label: BBC Books
Manufacturer: BBC Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 256
Printing Date: June 14, 2006
Publishing house: BBC Books
Sale Popularity Level: 27053
Studio: BBC Books
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Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realizes that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose - and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for...
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The Stone Rose by Jaqueline Rayner is a brisk read, but I wouldn't rank it among the better entries of the BBC Books series. The story is told more with Rose Tyler as the protaganist and while the Doctor does spend a good deal of the book trying to set things right, it's Rose who is the real star of this book. The plot's mystery does pay off nicely in the end but only after what might be considered a shaky plot complication. How much you enjoy this book will depend on how well you take it. I enjoyed it and suspended my disbelief but I still found it less than amazing. On the plus side, the Doctor does get to play gladiator in a Roman arena and the characterization of Rose Tyler is one of the better I've read. The Doctor says things that he might say on the TV series, but for me at least, it didn't sound as Tennanty as other authors (Justin Richards, Stephen Cole) have accomplished in their respective BBC Books Doctor Who novels.
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I have only read 2 doctor who books from the tenth Doctor and this was rather slow and not many plot twists. the characters were flat. I think it was only my want for a new who story that kept me reading it. I hope the other who stories are better then this one....Yeah not buying the Doctor in a Toga either.
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This Doctor Who novel starts out with so much potential. It opens with a delightfully clever attention-grabbing puzzle: a 2000-year-old statue of the Doctor's companion, Rose Tyler, in the British Museum. This of course leads to a promising trip to the old Roman Empire to solve the puzzle. Science fiction with a clever historical setting--quintessential Doctor Who, say no more. Once in Rome, more mysteries greet the Doctor and Rose (abruptly disappearing sons, inexplicably clairvoyant slave girls) amidst a finely layered and convincingly detailed evocation of everyday life in this specific time and place on Earth.
As the Fates would have it, though, things start going awry. The mystery of the disappearing son and the villain behind it and this situation's connection to the Rose statue swiftly becomes painfully dreadfully obvious and openly apparent to any but the most clueless reader, to the point that the Doctor (especially, and even Rose eventually) looks positively thick for not catching on. This is a serious lapse in writing; the Doctor may be bumbling and eccentric, but never oblivious and slow on the uptake. As the tale grinds on, the Roman setting starts losing its anchoring sense of reality (perhaps the novel's primary saving grace while it lasts) and the plot devolves from inspired quirkiness to cutesy silliness and then devolves again into something just short of muddled chaos.
The characters of the Doctor and Rose as they were at some indeterminate point early in the second series/season (Doctor Who - The Complete Second Series) are skillfully and accurately portrayed for the most part. The plebian goodness of Rose is spot-on, and the casually frenetic manner of the Tenth Doctor is distinctly drawn most of the time, though some cringe-inducing moments have him dropping out of character and behaving like the hero in a romantic drama. And this is just a personal nitpick, perhaps, but the Doctor HAS been to Rome before (Doctor Who - The Rescue/The Romans) and a brief passing reference to this fact would have been a pleasing wink n' nod to old time fans like myself without unduly confusing newcomers, I think. Otherwise a host of reasonably defined but rather uncomplicated supporting characters also populate the tale, of course, as well as plausible though slightly caricatured portrayals of Rose's family and friends from the show.
To make a long epic short, if "The Stone Rose" were fan fiction posted online by a teenage girl with a huge crush on David Tennant for the free edification of her peers, it would be an impressively talented example of its genre. As a professionally written work of science fiction, though, it is a somewhat entertaining but inexcusably flawed work saved from total mediocrity only by the author's acknowledged long and abiding interest in Roman history and perhaps the favor of blind fortune.
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Having been completely sucked into the new Doctor Who (both 9th and 10th Doctors) I now find myself devouring everything I can get my hands on. The novel tie-ins all seem to be written for an all-ages audience; not terribly sophisticated writing, but entertaining.
I thought this one was a decent example; a fine start with a good handle on the characters and nice dialogue. The middle section of the book requires much suspension of disbelief as the Doctor gets himself thrown to the lions in the colliseum and enacts a spectacular escape, but the final third of the book is where the story really takes off. With the Doctor in peril Rose rises to the occasion and deals with some genuinely thought-provoking issues - I'm trying to not spell out the plot points, but she faces some interesting conundrums and I enjoyed the way in which things played out.
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One of the many reasons I love this novel is I happen to love Roman history. I also happen to love Doctor Who, science fiction, and the tenth Doctor. I also like Rose and found their visit to ancient Rome a delight. It seems that they have found a statue of Rose in a modern museum, a 2000 year old statue, and they realize that the TARDIS will soon be making a stop there, so why not go now? So off they go. But, of course, they find themselves in a trap of their own design. For the Doctor tumbles across a hideous truth, a truth that could screw up history and maybe, just maybe, get Rose killed.
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