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"Doctor Who": The Doctor Trap: (Abridged Book) (Dr Who) [Audiobook] (Audio CD)

by Simon Messingham (Author), Russell Tovey (Reader)
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  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd (12 Mar 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1408410230
  • ISBN-13: 978-1408410233
  • Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 12.4 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 47,668 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is an abridged reading of a BBC Books novel featuring the Doctor and Donna (as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit BBC One TV series). Sebastiene was human...once. He might look like a nineteenth-century nobleman, but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet, then hunting them down for sport. And now he's caught them all - from Zargregs to Moogs, and even the odd Eternal. In fact, Sebastiene is after only one more prize. For this trophy, he knows he is going to need help. He's brought together the finest hunters in the universe to play the most dangerous game for the deadliest quarry of them all. They are hunting for the last of the Time Lords - the Doctor! This title is written by Simon Messingham.

About the Author
Simon Messingham wrote with Alexander Kirk the TV comedy series Tales of Uplift and Moral Improvement, which starred Rik Mayall. He also wrote The Dave Saint Show, which starred John Thomson. Simon has also appeared in numerous sketch show outfits, written and directed short films, was commissioned by the UK Film Council to write the feature film comedy Goth Holiday, co-wrote the play The Teen People and was the 2005 winner of the British Fantasy Society Short Story Competition. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Planet 1 is Not What It Seems, 16 Nov 2008
By Ruth King "BookishRuth.com" (Spring City, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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"Excitement, tension, the thrill of the chase, these were a few of his favourite things."
- The Doctor Trap, p. 187

Sebastiene is physically flawless, incredibly powerful and more than a little bit maniacal. As the ruler of Planet 1, Sebastiene has everything he could ever want, but that will never be enough. He's taken to hunting down alien species, the more dangerous the better. For his ultimate prize, however, Sebastiene must enlist the help of the Endangered Dangerous Species Society, a group of the most ruthless hunters in the galaxy. Sebastiene wants to add the most dangerous being in the universe to his collection: the Doctor, the last of the Time Lords.

Sebastiene uses a genetic copy of the Doctor, a man named Baris, to steal the TARDIS and kidnap Donna. The doppelganger lures the Doctor to Planet 1, but it doesn't take long for the Doctor to turn the tables on his twin. He manages to switch places with Baris, which only complicates matters. Now he has to save Donna, recover the TARDIS and keep the hunters from killing Baris. Can the Doctor escape Sebastiene's trap or will Sebastiene find himself in a trap of the Doctor's design?

The Doctor Trap is an action-packed story filled with twists and turns, alternating between confusing and clever. Sebastiene was an interesting villain but I felt that the story would have been stronger without the final twist; it felt rather anticlimactic compared to earlier revelations.

This is one of the first novels to feature Donna Noble as the Doctor's companion. While they spend most of the story separated (one of my personal pet peeves with the Doctor Who novels), there are some nice moments of Doctor/Donna banter that the show's fans came to expect during Series 4.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Doctor trap made my head spin, 24 Sep 2008
By Nanny Ogg (Hamburg) - See all my reviews
"The Doctor Trap" is one of the first Doctor Who novels to feature Donna as the Doctor's companion. Though, through the first half of the book she isn't very present, as the Doctor and her get seperated on the first pages.
Sebastiene, the ruler of his own planet, has set out to hunt the doctor down and kill him. Therefor he brought a couple of hunters to Planet 1, all infamous for wiping out rare species. He even created a Doctor-double, made from the Doctor's "biggest fan", Baris. The Doctor manages to swap places with Baris, though and now has not only to rescue Donna, but also get back his TARDIS and escape from the planet.

When I read the book description, I was afraid this could be a second "Last Dodo", another Doctor Who novel where he is hunted for being the last of his kind. But "The Doctor Trap" certainly does not imitate that one. It is faster and more exciting. Again the Doctor and his companion are very well written (including some small banters the way I liked them on the TV series). Plus, I really had to use my brains at one point - the "Doctor Trap" and it's explanation (or the explanation Sebastien though it had), made my head spin. So confusing.
A really good read I'd certainly recommend to Doctor/Donna friends.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A review of the novel AND the audiobook, 15 Dec 2008
By Binro The Heretic "mattieboyz" (Hillsborough, Sheffield) - See all my reviews
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After a host of original Doctor Who novels for both The Virgin New Adventures series and the BBC books series that followed it, this is Simon Messingham's first Tenth Doctor novel - and it doesn't disappoint.

As with the previous book in the series, Martha in the Mirror; some of the elements from stories from both the `classic' (i.e. 1963 - 1989) as well as the current series' are used; something that will appeal to the older fans amongst us as well as fascinating and intriguing younger readers. Robert Shearman's Ninth Doctor adventure `Dalek', immediately springs to mind when reading the account of the space museum housing different alien species, whilst the museum's curator and the despotic ruler of Planet 1 - Sebastiene - has antecedents in both The Celestial Toymaker and The Master of the land of Fiction from 1968 story `The Mind Robber'.

Messingham develops an idea first purported in the 2006 TV story `Love and Monsters'; that The Doctor's travels are ardently followed by hordes of fans. Although this idea may seem spurious to the older generation of `Whovians' it provides the necessary backdrop to a story of dim-witted dopplegangers, demented droids and deluded dictators; as The Doctor becomes the prey in a deadly game of cat and mouse...

The Doctor's current travelling companion, Donna Noble, is sidelined early on in the story, and this allows The Doctor to fight this particular menace unshackled, making for a fast-paced and fascinating battle of wits.

The audiobook version, read by Russell Tovey (Midshipman Frame in 2007 Christmas Special 'Voyage of the Damned'), is unfortunately abridged, and consequently squeezes too much plot into too short a space. I would definitely recommend going for the hardback version; unless you have a worryingly short attention span.
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5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant
this was an excellent audio book brillently read by Russell Tovey. I really enjoyed the book must have for all Dr Who fans
Published 12 days ago by Mrs. S. E. Sexton

1.0 out of 5 stars Ambridged version does not work.
The full version of this book may well be a good read but the abridged version on the CD just does not work. Read more
Published 1 month ago by R. Hough

4.0 out of 5 stars NOT background listening material
This was an enjoyable story, but sufficiently puzzling at points that it requires your full attention. Read more
Published 3 months ago by V. J. Edwards

5.0 out of 5 stars The Doctor Trap.
This audio book is brilliant. The narrator couldnt have been better and the story is just absolutely fantastic
Published 3 months ago by Ms. J. Wolfenden

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