I also love the Witches - Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are only a gnat’s whisker behind Vimes for me personally 
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Granny means so so much to me, I absolutely adore her
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Thanks you for the advice @Tian, @DoctorDisco, and @sircarolyn!
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Honestly, one of my favorite Discworld novels.
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I own several books! You should definitely read it (them!).
I mean, I have never read them either (yet). So I should do it too! But I encourage you to do it first!
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There are amazing audiobooks to them as well.
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I just finished the NSA Beautiful Chaos, which I quite enjoyed! It was definitely a step up from other NSAs I’ve read, and Wilf had a prominent role.
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Oh nooo it continues?? I was hoping it would be restricted to Cold Fusion 
that book is great but some of the Tegan and Nyssa stuff is deeply uncomfortable
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I need to read this one at some point
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It’s fascinating how much early Gallifrey feels directly inspired by Lungbarrow. I have to say, I prefer Lungbarrow personally
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Something I was skimming through earlier:
If you go over to the official pages for copies of Doctor Who scripts, and head to season 10.
One notable thing is that there are two versions of “The Pilot” there, the first draft and the final draft. You can see why if you look at them, too. The first draft is 21 pages longer then the final. A lot of stuff was cut…
(I do wonder why episodes 4, 7, 9, and 10 are missing…)
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The Ruby’s Curse was alright, but far too long.
In the Blood blew my mind, an enjoyable Jenny T Colgan story, and it was a Big Finish sequel?!?
Hoping to have The Wonderful Doctor of Oz done in a bit.
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This is exactly my problem with it. I think that it was good but it never ends…
Should I listen to something before reading that?
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Spoiler for the book, but I recommend listening to Time Reaver first. If you’ve already done that, then the you’ll be fine!
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Done!
That’s me finished three books today already!
Now to continue The Nightmare of Black Island!
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I think I have the sontaran experiment next in my target book marathon I’ll probs listen to the audiobook at work then read along with the rest of it
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I’m about halfway through The Secret in Vault 13 and how did I not pick up on all these references the first 4 times I read this???[1]
I kinda want to make a list of all of them…
[2]
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Started reading The Masters of Luxor script book. Interesting enough first episode!
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Got halfway through Camera Obscura last night, I’m having so much fun. Lloyd Rose really knows how to do character dynamics
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I made a list!
A very long list
- Sontarans, Cybermen and Daleks - page 4
- “Whether they were a twelve-eyed spider from Metebelis III” (Planet of the Spiders) - page 17
- “‘Argolis, The Leisure Hive, offers—‘ … ‘Been there. Had a few issues with their tachyon generator.’” (The Leisure Hive) - page 25
- “Though, it could be a Krynoid…Sarah Jane and I had a few problems with one of those.” (The Seeds of Doom) - page 29
- The Galactic Seed Vault is on the ice planet of Calufrax Major” (The Pirate Planet?) - page 41
- “Spotting a multicoloured scarf, he plucked it off its hanger.” (The Fourth Doctor’s Scarf) - 51
- ‘“You’d never told me you met the Yetis! I Remember them well. Cuddly, but fierce. Robots, of course…’” (The Abominable Snowmen) - page 52
- “’Venusian aikido. A more subtle martial art, favoured by a few of us Time Lords’” (The Third Doctor, etc.) - page 66
- “’I haven’t had to collect a set of apocalypse-averting keys for ages. Three should be simple enough. Last time it was one, but in six pieces.’” (Season 16/The Key to Time) - page 92
- “She was prowling around the grandfather clock, eyeing it suspiciously.” … “'Knew someone once who had a TARDIS that looked just like one of these.’”(The Master’s TARDIS/The Deadly Assassin) - page 130
- “’Mars.’” .. “‘Homeworld of the Ice Warriors’” (The Ice Warriors, etc.) - page 140
- Rassilon is name dropped (The Deadly Assassin, etc.) - page 141
- Hedgewick’s World of Wonders (Nightmare in Silver) - page 141
- “‘I mean, it’s not like mentally duelling the brain of Morbius was.’” (The Brain of Morbius) - page 168
- There is a character called Mr Delgado, which could be a reference to Rodger Delgado who played the Master. - page 193
- “’To unclog a blocked drain, the best thing to use is your trusty plunger. If you haven’t got one handy, try borrowing one from a Dalek.’” - page 214
- Autons, Ogrons, Daemons, Plasmatons, Cryons, Zygons, Draconians, Osirians, Silurians, Sontarans (again), Kraals, Thals, the Fendahl, Haemovores, Tritovores, Robots of Death, the K1 Robot, the Kandyman, L3 robots, White Robots, clockwork robots, Handbots, Illyria Seven robots, robot knights, Ice Warriors, Sea Devils, War Machines, Time Zombies, Weeping Angels, Voord, Ood, Judoon, Mandrels, Argolins, Destroyers, Jarafess, Reapers, Pyroviles, Silents, Snowmen, Whispermen, Cybermen(again), and Daleks (again)- pages 217-219
- “‘Entropy wave that causes universal heat death’” (Logopolis) - page 247
- “’Reality bomb’” (Journey’s End) - page 247
- “’Dimensional transference triggered by a black light explosion’” (The Mysterious Planet?) - page 247-248
- “’Every star exploding at every point in history’” (The Pandorica Opens?) - page 248
- “‘Got it in the gift shop on the planet Shada.’” (Shada) - pages 248 and 285
- Coal Hill School - page 273
- I.M. Foreman, Scrap Merchant. 76 Totters Lane. - page 273
- Transpower system (Vengeance on Varos), Dynamorphic generator (The Quantum Archangel), Zyton-Seven (also called Zeiton-7, from Vengeance on Varos and Lucifer Rising), Cloister Bells, Eye of Harmony (also mentioned earlier on), and artron energy - page 278
- Chameleon circuit (also mention earlier on) - page 279
The Time Lords, Gallifrey and Regeneration are also mentioned a few times.
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