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slipperbunny's review against another edition
4.0
My first introduction to Classic Who. I enjoyed this story and I founf the Second Doctor interesting. I don't know any of the other Classic Who Doctors so it's hard to say which one is my favorite. As a companion I really liked Jamie because the Doctor has had such strong female lately and I kinda liked to see a strong male character (other than the Doctor). And when the Doctor threw the rock at the yeti Jamie's reaction was perfect. I liked the other characters too and the story, but I wished I had got to see more about the real yetis (it was so cute...).
corvus1970's review against another edition
4.0
The great tragedy of the long-lived science-fantasy series, Doctor WHO, is the sheer amount of missing episodes. In some cases, entire televised serials have been lost.
Back in the days before the rise of VHS/Beta, the BBC had little use for older programs, particularly if they couldn't be sold to other markets elsewhere in the world. This led to the scrapping of many a television show. While Doctor WHO fared better than some shows, large swaths of the First and Second Doctor's stories were lost in this fashion, and while some have been recovered, many remain lost, perhaps forever.
However, the novelizations of these old stories help fill in the gaps, and while the episodes themselves might be lost, an avid reader can crack open a book, and let a classic Doctor WHO tale fill their imagination with the heroic exploits of everyone's favorite Time-Lord, and his trusty friends and companions. When I was a young fan of the show in 1978, these novelizations helped expand my reading habits beyond reference materials and comics, and I still hold a great deal of affection for them to this day.
Scriptwriter/Author Terrance Dicks was always a dab hand when it came to these sorts of adaptations, which is why he cranked out over 60 such novelizations. This is one such story, and it's a fun, brisk read, that faithfully adapts and expands the lost serial, "The Abominable Snowmen", and its very accessible to fans both young and old.
Highly recommended to any fan of the good Doctor.
Back in the days before the rise of VHS/Beta, the BBC had little use for older programs, particularly if they couldn't be sold to other markets elsewhere in the world. This led to the scrapping of many a television show. While Doctor WHO fared better than some shows, large swaths of the First and Second Doctor's stories were lost in this fashion, and while some have been recovered, many remain lost, perhaps forever.
However, the novelizations of these old stories help fill in the gaps, and while the episodes themselves might be lost, an avid reader can crack open a book, and let a classic Doctor WHO tale fill their imagination with the heroic exploits of everyone's favorite Time-Lord, and his trusty friends and companions. When I was a young fan of the show in 1978, these novelizations helped expand my reading habits beyond reference materials and comics, and I still hold a great deal of affection for them to this day.
Scriptwriter/Author Terrance Dicks was always a dab hand when it came to these sorts of adaptations, which is why he cranked out over 60 such novelizations. This is one such story, and it's a fun, brisk read, that faithfully adapts and expands the lost serial, "The Abominable Snowmen", and its very accessible to fans both young and old.
Highly recommended to any fan of the good Doctor.
abhijeetgaiha's review against another edition
2.0
Short, swift read. The story is decent enough but without the visuals it feels flat. A well executed episode often has a chilling moment or two and that's the case here as well, but again the lack of visuals limits the impact.
nwhyte's review against another edition
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1028958.html?#cutid3[return][return]This was the very first Second Doctor book, followed over the next few years by Doctor Who and the Cybermen, then Doctor Who and the Ice Warriors, Doctor Who and the Web of Fear and Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen. Dicks was still taking it seriously at this stage, and nicely fills out the four-part story into a good read. The interplay of motivations among the monks is very good, and Dicks was still in the habit of writing in tight third rather than TV viewer perspective. Victoria, alas, is very wet indeed, but there are a couple of amusing double entendres, eg "Thonmi woke up with a jerk" - hmm, yes....
ianbanks's review against another edition
3.0
Mr Dicks novelises a beloved Troughton classic. This is a pretty standard novelisation: it doesn’t add terribly much detail but it give the universe a nice lived-in feel. The Great Intelligence, combined with the setting, gives this a tense, claustrophobic feel and the running around in corridors - an essential part of any Who story - seems to be kept to a minimum here. The characters are given some depth but only enough to engender some conflict between them. Fun and far from the depths that the Target range would deliver before too many more years were up.
twainy88's review against another edition
4.0
The second Doctor with Victoria & Jamie.
We’ve got peaceful Yeti killers, a glowing cave on a mountain top, Tibetan monks, an old friend of the Doctor’s (Dr Travers) and the Great Intelligence.
People are turning up horribly killed. What’s going on?! Yeti are peaceful!
A novelization of a fantastic episode!
We’ve got peaceful Yeti killers, a glowing cave on a mountain top, Tibetan monks, an old friend of the Doctor’s (Dr Travers) and the Great Intelligence.
People are turning up horribly killed. What’s going on?! Yeti are peaceful!
A novelization of a fantastic episode!
charlottejones952's review against another edition
4.0
Simply written story but well worth reading if you are a Whovian!