The Shakespeare Code

[speakbitterness]

Let's see if I can break the record and manage two Doctor Who reviews in a row. I'm on holiday, chatty and feeling pretentious - so please read at your own risk - I reserve the right to be a wanker about pop culture, I have so little outlet these days

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[speakbitterness]

25 was just me being arbitary - really I meant anyone who grew up with memories of the classic series.
The flaw in my argument, as you point out, is that I have a hard time believing that I'd not have been a "reader" even without Doctor Who - so you're right perhaps it draws literary people to it. I was so in to my own line of reasoning that i couldn't see that....

You should definately read the About Time stuff. I've got two copies of About Time 2 (an over enthusiastic Amazon), you can have my spare next time I see you.

[speakbitterness]

Oh and thanks for reading what was a very long and very meandering review - it's nice to know I wasn't just writing into space.

[fireandtherose]

I can given half a chance get a bit intellectual over Harry and why, brilliant childrens books that they are, it also has much to offer those of us who weren't fortunate enough to have them around to read when we were eight years old. It seems quite fitting to me, then, that JK Rawlings provided the words to finish off the witches - an act that was started by Shakespeare. And I loved the way the doctor referred to her as JK - as if they were old friends. Imagination, as well as words were being celebrated

[speakbitterness]

Salman Rushdie of all people alive today is probably the best man with words. he's not my favourite writer or anything but he really does have a strange power with them.
that's a great quote - and it is kinda sad when you think about it like that.

I'm with you on HP - well deserving of the Doctor's recognition I feel