Time for another book! We are going to read together Transit
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Oh sweet deity of your choice, we’ve reached this one…
Honestly, I don’t understand the hate this novel gets. The infamous scene about eating nuts is just a throwaway line. It’s Doctor Who meets 90s cyberpunk, so of course sex workers are featured. And like all “let’s smash Doctor Who into another genre” stories, it starts by emulating that genre before it slowly gets deformed by the Doctor’s presence, so it has to start off being edgy. It’s not great, but it’s wild to me that this novel gets dumped on while the very first one gets more of a pass by fandom.
EDIT: Seems I misremember some rather large chunks of this novel, so I’m going to leave this here as a mark of my shame, but otherwise retract most of this.
I totally get not liking this book. The sex scenes are way too explicit and feels like they are there to just see how much Ben Aaronvitch could get away with, they add absolutely nothing to the narrative. Hearing how Kadiatu inserts a guy’s… appendage while on top of him, having a scene where we hear about how a prostitute cleans her… parts in a crowded bubble bath, and learning which nuts to eat to get the taste of semen out of your mouth. Plus the Doctor getting blind drunk on Ouzo and waking up in bed next to Kadiatu with next to no clothes on, it just doesn’t fit with everything we know about the Doctor.
And I have seen a lot more dislike for Timewyrm: Genesys over the years than I have Transit. A lot of which I don’t really agree with, apart from the Doctor sending Ace on a trip with a guy she tells that Doctor that she is afraid will rape her - again this just flies against what there is established about the Doctor
I am going to begin reading this today.
One thing I dislike about being so active in the fandom is that I will unavoidably run into “perceived wisdom” about certain stories (and have been doing so for years in different spaces, even before I started watching Classic Who for the first time)—Genesis of the Daleks or Pyramids of Mars being masterpieces and Love & Monsters or Fear Her being pieces of trash, for instance. Or Robert Shearman being the God of Big Finish stories while Nekroamnteia (which I will be listening to today) is supposedly the worst thing they’ve ever put out. Similarly with these VNA’s, Timewyrm: Genesys is like the worst book ever, while Love & War or Human Nature are undisputed gems.
And then there’s Transit, which I’ve only heard overly negative things about.
This means that I will go into this book expecting it to be a big turd; even I would like to go into everything with an open mind. And that annoys me, because I feel that I’m judging something already before I’ve given it a fair chance! But that’s nobody’s fault, and I have to accept the facts and hope that Transit turns out to be better than everyone says.
I have not read this one but it is utterly infamous. One day I will read it and see if it really is as bad as people would have you believe
I read the Prelude to Transit. It’s a pretty simple little scene of a man riding to his death on a white horse, and I don’t exactly know the significance of it, if any. Other than the Bambera mention at the end.
Was it implying the old man was the Brigadier?
I read Transit a couple of years ago. I remember liking bits of it– there’s this moment the Doctor makes tangliatelle in his house in Kent which is adorable, and there are some really interesting sci-fi ideas in there. But the book didn’t impress me that much. I found it really hard to connect to the characters, and the plot was spread far too thin across so many plot lines. I definitely ended up powering through the last third.
I think it might be because Kadiatu is his descendant, somehow or other.
I just remembered that I made a review of this one (much as I don’t want to think about this story 
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I read this a while ago now and don’t particularly remember it.
But what I do remember isn’t even nearly as bad as people say.
Basically one scene and one line feel particularly vulgar, the rest is just a kind of bland cyberpunk story with some fun characters.
Maybe I’ve just wildly misremembered it but it really doesn’t seem like the heinous, blasphemous and sex-crazed trash fire I see it often described as.