tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10659275.post115817736585611165..comments2023-11-04T01:41:23.277+00:00Comments on Memorabilia Antonina: Another Big SeriesTony Keenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07125792825206480340noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10659275.post-1158855572125982142006-09-21T17:19:00.000+01:002006-09-21T17:19:00.000+01:00I have a copy on my shelves, but I've never actual...I have a copy on my shelves, but I've never actually read it.Tony Keenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125792825206480340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10659275.post-1158850013616788182006-09-21T15:46:00.000+01:002006-09-21T15:46:00.000+01:00Have you by chance come across Byzantium!, a Docto...Have you by chance come across <I>Byzantium!</I>, a Doctor Who novelization written in 2001 by a certain Keith Topping? Paste this for a precis:<BR/><BR/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/books/byzantium/<BR/><BR/>It's impressively awful, with penny-dreadful Romans, about 9 out of 10 attempts at Latin badly mangled, and tons of mock-historical stiltedness in the conversations. And there are characters with names like Agrinella, Actium and Fabulous. Still, it's interesting to find the Doctor and his companions mingling with Early Christians and bored colonial Romans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com