And Another Thing...

Original Sin · Subject: And Another Thing... Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:32 am

...is the title of the [fanfare] sixth novel in the incredibly inaccurately-named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. The author will be Eoin Colfer, who is best known for writing the Artemis Fowl books. I listened to the audio version of the first book in that series, but sort of lost interest/gave up after a while. I have mixed feelings. I'm glad we will no longer have to have the series end on the incredibly bleak ending of Mostly Harmless, but I'm not sure about Colfer. If it were up to me, I would have chosen Neil Gaiman.

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Ilpala · Number of posts: 284 Age: 22 Registration date: 2007-10-12

I...what? o.O

Lady · Admin Number of posts: 3116 Registration date: 2007-10-12

Interesting. I only read the first three Hitchhiker books (didn't feel like getting on a wait-list for the others), but I do like the Artemis Fowl series.

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Kamineko · Subject: Re: And Another Thing... Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:20 pm

I only liked the first couple hitchiker books to begin with, and I don't think someone who isn't Douglas Adams could possibly do it justice.

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Aris · Subject: Re: And Another Thing... Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:30 am

I don't know, I just started reading the first Hitchhikers book and also the first Artemis Fowl book. I don't think Fowl-author could do Adams justice.

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Capn_ARG · Subject: Re: And Another Thing... Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:22 pm

It's just such a difference in author styles between the two.

Then again, I sure couldn't name a successor to Adams.

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