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| The Discontinuity Guide | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paul Cornell, Martin Day, Keith Topping
Publisher: Monkeybrain
Category: Book
List Price: £10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 65025
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1932265090
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4572
EAN: 9781932265095
ASIN: 1932265090
Publication Date: October 1, 2004
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 Wonderfully Irreverent Guide to Classic Who. September 14, 2008
This is a great - and unique - guide to the whole run of Classic Who, chronicling, as it does, all the fluffs, goofs and continuity errors that charmingly add to the enjoyment of viewing. It is clearly written by and for people who care for and love the show. Recommended!
Essential reading for all who fans May 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The discontinuity guide contains plot summaries and overall "whoniverse" continuity for each of the classic series stories. It also lists favourite quotes, goofs and fashion victims for each story. As a result it contains the right balance of content and comedy that every who fan needs to get through some of the more ludicrous stories but it also helps us to revel in the best moments. My copy of this book is so tatty that I have come here looking for a replacement. I honestly don't understand how this got a bad review unless the reviewer was looking for nothing more than a dry encyclopedia - impossible for a series so full of contradictions.
Essential October 31, 2005
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
All opinions are valid, but I must strongly disagree with the review below. My copy of The Discontinuity Guide, from the original printing in 1995, is so well-thumbed that it now resembles the Dead Sea Scrolls. It would not have been so often referred to if it were in any way a "boring" piece of work. It is most definitely not "drival (sic)", but a well constructed and genuinely useful reference guide. The Discontinuity Guide breaks down each Doctor Who televison story into several sub-headings, including Technobabble, Continuity, Fashion Victims, Goofs, and Dialogue Triumphs, then concludes with a short (sometimes very short!) opinion on the story. The book has a nicely irreverent and polarised angle on Doctor Who; refreshing for a reference book, where the content is often very dry. One may or may not agree with the opinions expressed by the authors, but there is something here to get one's teeth into regardless of that. Essential. Really, it is.
 A very poor attempt to be clever November 13, 2004
4 out of 40 found this review helpful
I found it very irritating because I was reading 'opinions' and not facts. I was hoping for a more interlectual and reasoned dissection of DW over the years but I just got drival. For a compilation by three people I found the content to be very unimaginative even in their opinions. The worst DW buy I have ever made.You can't forget who wrote this stuff either - their names are at the top of every single page - boring.
Nobody and nothing can stop me now! December 17, 2003
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Great fun and full of trivial information for people like me who just can't get enough Doctor Who. The double entendres and fashion victims sections are a bit stupid, but the goofs and opinions are always interesting. Recommended.
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