Author Archives: Adam Randall

Penguin Classics: The Amazing Spider-Man

First of all, I absolutely love the fact that the Penguin Classics range now includes classic comics. The Amazing Spider-Man is one of three Marvel comics to receive a collected volume in a Penguin Classic – I hope that there … Continue reading

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Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen by Terrance Dicks

Revenge of the Cybermen is not one of my favourite Doctor Who stories. It has its charms, but I think it’s quite bland, and it makes the Cybermen just feel like generic enemy aliens. It might seem odd that I … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: Empire of the Wolf by Jody Houser

I bought this graphic novel knowing nothing about it other than that the front cover looked cool. Based on that piece of art, I thought it was about Rose Tyler becoming corrupted by the power of the Bad Wolf and … Continue reading

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Top 10 New Experiences from my trip to Portugal

As I mentioned recently, last month I went on my first trip overseas and visited Portugal for five days. It was a delightful time, full of new experiences. My friend Neus (who was responsible for me going altogether, for which … Continue reading

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

This is probably one of the best known Shakespeare plays, with most people thinking of it as “the one where a man has a donkey’s head” and, to be honest, other than knowing that it was one of the more … Continue reading

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The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan

This is the fourth book in The Wheel of Time series, and also the longest one so far for me (and according to Wikipedia, overall). Unfortunately, I felt that the series started to lose a bit of steam here too … Continue reading

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Doctor Who: The Pit by Neil Penswick

The twelfth novel in the Virgin New Adventures series of Doctor Who books sees the Doctor and Bernice landing in a planetary system which was known to have mysteriously disappeared. As you might imagine, this is a premise which leads … Continue reading

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Emotional Ambience

I recently returned from my very first trip abroad. Needless to say, it was an absolutely wonderful experience – so much so, that there’s no way I could do it justice in just a single blog post. I’ll no doubt … Continue reading

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Maximum Pleasure

I recently thought to myself, “Why are there so many songs that seem to be about delicious food, but are actually just about sex, but none that are the other way around?” Then I thought that if I wanted that … Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This, one of Charles Dickens most iconic novel, provides a human-level perspective of the French Revolution. The story spans the two cities in the title (London and Paris) and shows how the impacts of the revolution were far reaching enough … Continue reading

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