Yeah, yeah , yeah...to all of my non-Fangirl/Fanboy reader, my incessant nattering about the Doctor is probably driving you all bonkers. Sorry - you're just gonna need to deal with that since it isn't about to stop :P
Since I started with the newest incarnation of the series (the one that fired the franchise up again in 2005), I am about 50 years behind on the whole thing.
Enter WHO-OLOGY - the official Micellany to all of the minutiae of the world of Doctor Who.
This little gem of a book was great for someone like me - who has only just started dabbling in this wonderful world. The pages are filled with a plethora of fun facts and stats about the series. I loved getting to know each of the past doctors - both in the role and in their actual lives. I loved reading the back stories behind important episodes and learning how the monsters were created. Heck - I even liked seeing the charts that showed which companions had logged the most episodes.
The book is written in easy to digest chunks - it kind of has the feel of a Bathroom Reader in that sense (though is too nice of a book to possibly leave in the loo). You can pick it up and read a little or a lot and not need to worry about leaving off in the middle of something.
I read it cover to cover, but it would be just as enjoyable to read if you just picked a page and opened it up. It does jump around a fair bit so there is no chronology to it. Just something to fill those hours where you can't actually plunk yourself in front of Netflix to watch an episode.
When well done these annotation books are great. When not it can be very depressing. I never got into Dr Who in any organized way, but for a while I had the complete set of DVD's in the house. In a region format our player wouldn't read. Sigh.
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