01-13-2010, 07:09 PM
Last week I was browsing through a "Going out of Business" sale at a bookstore, and noticed a book billing itself as the sixth part of the Hitchhiker's trilogy. So I bought it (hard cover! half price!)
Aside: for those of you who don't know, Douglas Adams is no longer with us. The sixth book has been written by one "Eoin Colfer" (NO idea how to pronounce that...)
It's not too bad. The style/pacing/whathaveyou is a bit different, but (most) of the humor is intact. For those of you familiar with how the fifth book ended, Eoin does come up with a, more or less, plausible way to "fix" it. I laughed out loud during the part with Cthulhu (sp?). I'm even thinking about asking Hastur to help punch up my resume.
On a scale of Froodiness, I'd give it about a 42.
Aside: for those of you who don't know, Douglas Adams is no longer with us. The sixth book has been written by one "Eoin Colfer" (NO idea how to pronounce that...)
It's not too bad. The style/pacing/whathaveyou is a bit different, but (most) of the humor is intact. For those of you familiar with how the fifth book ended, Eoin does come up with a, more or less, plausible way to "fix" it. I laughed out loud during the part with Cthulhu (sp?). I'm even thinking about asking Hastur to help punch up my resume.
On a scale of Froodiness, I'd give it about a 42.