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{{Please see|Aliens and enemies templates: the final battle}} {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''21:09:14 Tue '''29 Mar 2011 </span> | {{Please see|Aliens and enemies templates: the final battle}} {{user:CzechOut/Sig}} <span style="{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}}">'''21:09:14 Tue '''29 Mar 2011 </span> | ||
==Out of curiosity…== | |||
Why haven't you read any of the novels? | |||
I'm looking over the amount of text you've read by people like me, Boblipton, Light6, etc., and it's more than a novel's worth. You're spending hours of your life every week reading the stuff we spew out, and honestly, most of what we write isn't that interesting. Besides the fact that people like Paul Cornell and Larry Miles are better writers than us, they're explicitly writing to entertain ''Doctor Who'' fans, and we're not. | |||
I'm not picking on you here; it's just that you seem to have to most enduring patience and interest in reading our nonsense, and I'm really curious why you don't think it's worth putting a fraction of that effort into reading one of the novels. | |||
Remember, there's no law that says you have to accept them as canon just because you read them. Also, if you've heard that they're hard to find or expensive, that was true for the NAs about 5 years ago, but not anymore (and it was never true for the EDAs); I just saw ''Love and War'' and ''Alien Bodies'' used on Amazon for under $5 in the US and under £4 in the UK. (And if worst comes to worst you can pirate them easily and PayPal the authors whatever you think they're worth; I did that with a bunch of NAs a few years ago.) --[[Special:Contributions/70.36.140.19|70.36.140.19]] 05:16, September 19, 2011 (UTC) | |||
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czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ <span style="">21:09:14 Tue 29 Mar 2011
Out of curiosity…
Why haven't you read any of the novels?
I'm looking over the amount of text you've read by people like me, Boblipton, Light6, etc., and it's more than a novel's worth. You're spending hours of your life every week reading the stuff we spew out, and honestly, most of what we write isn't that interesting. Besides the fact that people like Paul Cornell and Larry Miles are better writers than us, they're explicitly writing to entertain Doctor Who fans, and we're not.
I'm not picking on you here; it's just that you seem to have to most enduring patience and interest in reading our nonsense, and I'm really curious why you don't think it's worth putting a fraction of that effort into reading one of the novels.
Remember, there's no law that says you have to accept them as canon just because you read them. Also, if you've heard that they're hard to find or expensive, that was true for the NAs about 5 years ago, but not anymore (and it was never true for the EDAs); I just saw Love and War and Alien Bodies used on Amazon for under $5 in the US and under £4 in the UK. (And if worst comes to worst you can pirate them easily and PayPal the authors whatever you think they're worth; I did that with a bunch of NAs a few years ago.) --70.36.140.19 05:16, September 19, 2011 (UTC)
