And Another Thing...

I really wanted to like this book but I can't. I gave it 4 reads and it never got better. Cute for cuteness' sake does not an Adams story make. The Salmon of Doubt as an outline and a collection of essays recovered from multiple hard drives was better organized and more cohesive than this. I know Eoin tried and so did I and we both failed.

And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer surprised me greatly. I had already had an appreciation for Colfer's writing from listening to a few of his Artemis Fowl stories and I've had a deep and abiding love of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, but I hadn't expected them to come together nearly as well they did. Colfer does an admirable job of capturing the spirit of the Hitchhiker's Guide without coming across as simply emulating the late Adams's style. Characters are portrayed well, the story fits along with what has come before, and the frequent interludes of exerpts from the Guide are as funny as ever. In several places I found myself laughing aloud with no regard to what the people around me must have thought, the hallmark of any of my experiences listening to the Hitchhiker's Guide. Simon Jones does an excellent job reading and having the voice of Arthur Dent from the radio and television series lends gravitas to the project. I heartily recommend it to fans of the series. Keep a towel handy.

43. Dent, Trillian, Ford, Zaphod and Random, are miraculously saved from the destruction of the planet and they travel to Nano, a little refuge with the last survivors of Earth. But this idyllic oasis in the middle of the universe has some problems; mainly, the humans living in it. Some good momen......more

Things looked bleak in the last episode of our witty space saga, the Earth was to be no more, again, annihilated by bloodthirsty, heartless, repulsive aliens ( no not the Vogons, they come later), but have faith ladies and gentlemen, that our intrepid gang, somehow, will survive this catastrophe .........more

I was kind of scared to read this book. Actually, I was very scared, but I was also very excited--and then I read the forward. It was wonderful. Eoin Colfer knows he's not Douglas Adams, and he knows that his contribution to the trilogy won't be the same or mean the same thing to the readers. But he......more

My review with guest characters(Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect): "Something seems odd," Ford said turning toward Arthur. "Things have seemed ODD, ever since you convinced me to stand up and let that bulldozer knock down my house." "Yes well sorry about the house, but more importantly something has change......more

It's just wrong. I opened And Another Thing... which Adams' widow commissioned Colfer to write with a sinking feeling and reading it has done nothing to dispel the disquiet. As much as I'd love to have another Douglas Adams' book (Hitchhikers or something else) this isn't it. There is no way it coul......more