I don't care if it's not Douglas Adams. I hated the ending to Mostly Harmless (and from what I understand, Adams eventually came to hate it as well). I'm going to read this book.
Sixth installment for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.
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If you take out the bureaucrat that was in love with Zaphod and the romance plot between Arthur and Trillian from the movie, you might have something that resembles what the first book actually was. (I still enjoyed the movie, they'll just never be able to make sequels without drastically altering every single book after the first.)awsome117 said:
It's been a while since I read it, but Arthur is a bit of a pathetic guy whose house is about to be torn down so a road can be built over it. Meanwhile, the planet is about to be destroyed in order to make the galactic equivalent of a highway. Some things take place, a lot of them witty and amusing. Book two involves a restaurant located when (not where, as the movie would suggest) the universe ends, an animal that suggests which parts of it are the best cut to eat... One of the books had the secret to flight (during a fall, being distracted just before you hit the ground). Eventually Arthur goes back to a restored Earth and has a normal life for a while, even getting married and having a kid. At some point he gets flipped into some sort of spacial anomaly and loses his family, drifts around the galaxy, and settles on an incredibly boring planet where he becomes a professional sandwich maker.
Like I said, it's been a long time since I've read the books and I know I'm leaving a lot out. All I can say is that I regret reading the last one because I didn't like the ending.
Oh, well as long as we both agree Agrajag isn't a prophet, just a pissed off alien, that's cool. I'd figure that there's always a way to exploit time and space to allow Arthur and Ford to live. If I had to guess, I'd say that with the Heart of Gold lying around somewhere in the universe EVENTUALLY earth will suddenly poof back into existence.scnj said:
This would lead to Prostetnic Jeltz being a VERY angry and disappointed Vogon.
Urgh this has annoyed me no end. I don't like Artemis Fowl. Well... I read the first two chapters in a book shop. Now, before you say I haven't given it a proper chance, you're right. I haven't. And it infuriates me when people say things like that without judging properly. BUT the first two chapters did not entice me to read the rest of it. Whereas I read HHGTTG in a day. And then the rest of them as soon as I could get them.
I suppose you could view it as kind of a hommage to Douglas Adams but... I don't. It's capitalising on his brilliant series using an author that will never be the same. Actually, it doesn't matter who the author is. Even if I liked the author I'd still find this horrible.
I might read the first two chapters in a bookshop though so I can have a well-based opinion.
I suppose you could view it as kind of a hommage to Douglas Adams but... I don't. It's capitalising on his brilliant series using an author that will never be the same. Actually, it doesn't matter who the author is. Even if I liked the author I'd still find this horrible.
I might read the first two chapters in a bookshop though so I can have a well-based opinion.
I've never read Artemis Fowl, but from what I've heard from some friends, he's probably the best person to do Hitchhiker's Guide 6 out there. I've heard the guy talk once or twice and to be quite honest I think him doing a good job is actually not so unlikely. I'm still skeptical, but on the other hand just think about a few things:Berethond said:
1. He's releasing this on the 30th Anniversary of the first book being released, which does mean he's under pressure to make it good. Otherwise it ruins the anniversary (which would be very bad).
2. If he does a bad job, the fans will kill him.
3. He's not exactly a completely "green" writer. He's fairly well-established so he's not just going to rip off Douglas Adams' style. He's going to take risks and try to create his own style for the Hitchhiker's Guide. In a very literal sense this is what the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy is. A bunch of people contribute to it all for the purpose of makeing sure you can travel the universe for less than 30 Altairian dollars a day. It isn't Douglas Adams' in the same way that Ford Prefect can't claim he "owns" the entry for Earth. The Guide itself could be compared to wikipedia, since editing is done out in the field and usually while drunk. It needs to get updated (preferably often and in an inverse correlation to the price of alcohol).
So the fact that he's on record wanting to have written another book to give it a more upbeat ending doesn't bother you?Aardvark said:
I'm still extremely sceptical about this book, but I'll almost certainly end up reading it. It's also quite likely that I'll enjoy it: Eoin Colfer is a good writer, and I did enjoy the Artemis Fowl series. That is, I used to. The Eternity Code ended the story really well, and I really don't see why he felt the need to continue it. When I heard that the sixth book was going to be called "The Time Paradox", I gave up all hope in the series.
This is the biggest problem. As good as Colfer may be, he is not Douglas Adams, and no one ever will be. For the record, I liked the ending of Mostly Harmless a lot, because it provided a conclusive, and very fitting end to the series. It was sad, yes, but I thought it worked very well. Regardless of how much I enjoy And Another Thing, I'm going to have difficulty considering it canon, simply because it's not by Adams.scnj said:
It's a running Joke that the series is know for. Don't fret, I may be turning 21 soon but I haven't become senile... Yet.Maraveno said:
It's these complients in life that I live for.Antlers said:
But Douglas Adams was so unhappy with the sombre ending of Mostly Harmless - he didn't intend for it all to end on such a downer and he did intend to write a sixth book before he died he just...well, his end came before the trilogy's could.Cargando said:
Eoin Colfer is a phenomenal writer (The Supernaturalists was one of my childhood favourites) and I think if anyone can be trusted to finish it in a way that would make Douglas Adams smile, as Colfer did with many of his other novels, then it's good enough for me.
I tried reading...I tried...reading...artemis....*snore* Man that book was boring. Got like halfway through and was like, screw this. I read that little excerpt from the link of Colfer's attempt to write like Douglas Adam's and you know what? It looked like fan fiction. That series is perfectly fine the way it is.