James F's Reviews > Doctor Who: The Stone Rose

I was a longtime fan of the original Doctor Who series from the sixties, seventies, and eighties, and have read nearly all the novelizations of that, but have just begun watching the videos of the new series beginning with Season One and this is the first book I have read based on the new series. I read this particular book because it was the group read for a Doctor Who group here on Shelfari, but it is also one of the earliest, maybe even the first, of the new series books chronologically, with the Tenth Doctor (first of the new series) and his first companion, Rose Tyler. Unlike the novelizations of the older series, these do not seem to be based directly on actual episodes of the show, but are additional episodes with the same characters. The writing style is fairly simple, but like the show itself the action is nonstop, there is always a mystery to be solved, and the dialogue is far wittier and more intelligent than in any American television show I ever watched except possibly MASH (but I admit I have never watched much television). A good light read for fans of the show and a good introduction to the new series.