I just realized today that I’ll soon reach my first Target novel, ‘Doctor Who and the Daleks,’ and that was one I didn’t own, so I quickly rectified the situation by using a Microsoft credit on Amazon to order that one and ‘Doctor Who and the Crusaders.’ 
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Why do you feel this way? /gen
I’m not super familiar with many DW writers so I’m curious about your opinion
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Probably because their tide has been turned /j
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A while a ago @DontBlink told us about a short story they did not like. That made a lot of us want to read it and it has been a joke after that. It is called The Turning of The Tide and was written by her.
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I read it then and the story is as bad as I had expected reading the synopsis on Wiki. Simply can’t stand it. Jenny T Colgan wrote quite a few stories I really like and The Turning of the Tide is the opposite of that.
And that’s why teasing @DontBlink about it has been so much fun! 
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I hope that one day the tides will be turned on this meme but i highly doubt that to be honest, it’s never going away 
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Hi all,
Rather new to most things DW, and am experiencing DW purely through book reading…
So currently, I’m working through the EDW books, but then I’d be interested in moving into the “Target” books.
Am I to believe that there are 188 Target Novelizations? Wow! 
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There are a lot of them. There are books for all TV stories from the Classic era and some from the modern era. This can be a good way of experiencing the TV stories without watching them.
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If you need any advice on the Targets, I’m always happy to help
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You’ve probably told us this before, but are you ever thinking you might dip your toe into the TV episodes? If you’re looking at the Target novelisations, it might be the chance to find a story you’re interested in enough to see what the original version was like.
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Conceptually, yes maybe, that does sound kind of fun, but every time I think of watching, I think, “nah, I’d rather read it”… LOL! 
Thanks everyone for the offer of suggestions and your great ideas!
I seem to read about 35 novels a year.
So with that math… 65 more EDW + 188 Targets = 7 1/2 years!!! = EASY!!! 
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I recently discovered that I love to read - especially DW. It was a slow realization, but now I know. I’m glad you’re enjoying the prose and literature of DW, @JohnnyRockets!
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I really do enjoy the DW books more than I would have imagined. I was a hardcore Star Trek fan, but really prefer DW more.
I’m always thinking, “man, this book is a good one!”, with whatever DW book I seem to be reading at that moment. I really haven’t read a bad one yet. But that’s just me.
DW is unlike any “hero” that I have ever been exposed to in American Sci-Fi growing up. I find his character to be so refreshing and innovative. Always having a powerful “presence” without necessarily displaying that power in “traditional” ways.
Very cool!
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LOL! DW is super great!
I keep thinking how cool his character is as I read the books!
Gives me that “kid excitement” again about a cool character that you “actually” STILL want to imitate! 
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As one of the showrunners, Steven Moffat said once:
It is hard to talk about the importance of an imaginary hero. But heroes are important. Heroes tell us something about ourselves. History books tell us who we used to be, documentaries tell us who we are now… but heroes, tell us who we want to be. A lot of our heroes depress me. But when they made this particular hero, they didn’t give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn’t give him a tank or a warship or a X-Wing Fighter, they gave him a phone box from which you can call for help. And they didn’t give him a superpower, or pointy ears, or Heat Ray, they gave him an extra heart. They gave him two hearts and that is an extraordinary thing. There will never come a time when we don’t need a hero like the Doctor.
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Well, technically speaking, when they made the Doctor, they didn’t give him two hearts or a screwdriver. That all came later.
They did give him a rock to hit people over the head with…
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Hush, you’re spoiling the moment 
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They also gave him a shovel to hit people over the head with…
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Wow, that’s pretty nice!
And very true!
And, yes “lots of heroes depress me” too! 
But DW gives me hope! 
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