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And Another Thing ...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) [Paperback]

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Publication Date: 27 May 2010 | Series: Hitchhikers Guide 6

Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incident.

Arthur has travelled the length, breadth and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forwards and backwards through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released and colourfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. And, of course, he has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

Arthur has, though, finally made it home to Earth. But that does not mean he has escaped his fate.

For Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa are evaporating along with the world's oceans. Because no sooner has he arrived than he finds out that Earth is about to be blown up . . . again.

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Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incident.

Arthur has, though, finally made it home to Earth. But that does not mean he has escaped his fate.

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Penguin (27 May 2010)
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ISBN-10: 0141042133
ISBN-13: 978-0141042138
Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm

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"My first reaction was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed to tamper with this incredible series. But on reflection I realised that this is a wonderful opportunity to work with characters I have loved since childhood and give them something of my own voice while holding onto the spirit of Douglas Adams and not laying a single finger on his five books." -- Eoin Colfer --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Eoin (pronounced 'Owen') Colfer secured the largest ever advance for a children's novel by an unknown author in October 2000. He cast a spell on the publishing world with Artemis Fowl, and hasn't looked back since. Colfer lives in Wexford, Ireland, with his wife, Jackie, and their two sons.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't quite hit the mark 6 Nov 2009

By Dr John N Sutherland

Format:Hardcover

I first heard tHHGttG on BBC Radio 4 way back in my lost yoof, read the books as the appeared, watched the TV series and listened to the radio series over and over again on CD. It was the title of this new book that attracted me - 'and another thing' - I laughed out loud, forgetting that this was a quote from Douglas Adams! I eagerly bought the book and sat down to read it, quite excited.

I confess I have never read any of Mr Colfer's previous books, so had no idea what to expect. I also remember that tHHGttG is a patchy affair: radio excellent, TV good, book four disappointing and recent movie abysmal. So I was quite open minded as I approached this book. But, I confess to being quite, quite disappointed. Around half-way through I started counting pages-read and pages-to-go. It moved into the loo as a read-as-you-sit book. I forgot to read it for a few days. I trudged the last few pages, almost skimming in a zuzz-zuzz kinda way until - hallelujah - it was over!

Just why does this book not work? I reckon there are several reasons. Firstly it is juvenile whereas Adams books were undergraduate. It tried to tell a story where the originals were rambling, incoherent and very, very funny. The previous books dragged you back, almost like scripture, to squeeze out further meaning and coherence.

As to the characters, none of them retained any of the colour or features of the previous books, excepts perhaps Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz. Zaphod was thin. Ford was ethereal. Arthur was far too sympathetic and reminded me too much of me! Trillian was someone entirely new I had never met before. Only the god, Thor, was well drawn. It felt like a plot, plus well-kent characters' names, plus some new ones, recipe-ed into a novel.... Read more ›

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294 of 320 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars And Yet Another Thing 13 Oct 2009

By Review Shop

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I've been reading Eoin Colfer's book 'And Another Thing' and I'm pleasantly surprised to discover that I happen to like it. That's a biggie, really unexpected, as I'm one of those people who can't accept the possibility that anyone could measure up to Douglas Adams in his own (reflection of this) universe.

Let's state the obvious, shall we? Eoin Colfer isn't Douglas Adams. If he'd tried to clone Douglas's work, this book wouldn't have floated. Eoin (I think I can call him that, having shaken his hand) hasn't tried to be Douglas Adams, but he has tried to satisfy Douglas's supporters by writing in a very similar style. It reads well without sounding like a cheesy attempt to mimick the original.

I don't want to be hyper-critical (oh, gwaaan, gwaaan), but these are notes on Douglas's style and what's remained the same or changed:

1. Douglas might have been writing about aliens, but he was really talking about us. The Vogons are human bureaucrats, planning officers, for example. Douglas criticised, but never attacked his targets too hard, never losing hearts and minds. Eoin has understood this and does it very well. From an Irish writer, just following the EU's capture of Ireland, this line is Douglas at his cutting best: 'If we win, then you will join our happy group; if you win, then we keep coming back until we win.'

2. Douglas was a script writer and he specialised in dialogue. In the first two books, the proportion of quotes is very high, compared to description. In a novel, the use of witty script makes it read like a fast television show. Eoin does use speech, clearly, but the proportion has moved, i.e. more toward description.

3. The first HHG book used footnotes from 'The Book' at regular intervals and readers loved them.... As with Shakespeare, the prologue became a character in its own right. The second book used fewer notes from The Guide and then the rest of the series dropped them. If you ask the fans which books they prefer, you will generally find that they like the books in direct proportion to the number of Guide footnotes they include. Eoin has probably spotted this (or at least enjoys the footnotes) as he's dropped in lots of them. The difference is...

Douglas would write a footnote which was imaginative, surreal and then made a huge arching observation about the nature of the Universe, our perception of life itself or a cutting critique of human nature. He'd ask us to look at the thing from a new perspective, to open our eyes and shine a light in our minds, then he'd follow that with a silly twist at the end (the comedy pay-off). Eoin's footnotes are surreal, imaginative, they even use planet names, species and locations from the original books, but... the guru-like thinking, the great idea, the divine revelation isn't there. the footnote is funny, it's true, but Douglas had more insight into the human condition.

4. Imagination and escapism: Douglas wrote 'alternative world fiction', also called 'alternative reality' or 'what if?' fiction. He based his universe in science, never magic, and tried to find an engineering solution for each piece of alien strangeness. The only exception to the rule, as far as I can remember, was when his characters started flying (mind over physical laws). Eoin Colfer came to HHG as a magic writer (leprechauns etc). He has successfully made the transition to Douglas's way of thinking.

5. Douglas was a cynic and sometimes even depressive. His worst book was Mostly Harmless, in which he blows up the Earth, observes Marvin's death, kills all his characters, turns his back, shakes the blood off his hands and walks away feeling relieved. HHG followers generally didn't like Douglas's final HHG book. Eoin's advantage was that he's an upbeat writer and, as an ex-fan, his book couldn't possibly be as sickening to the loyal readers as Mostly Harmless. We didn't expect him to write something as good as the Hitch-Hiker's Guide, that's too much to ask, but there was hope he couldn't cock it all up (as they did in the film version by dropping all of the best lines). I'm delighted to report that Eoin has produced a book that is much closer to Douglas's best titles than Douglas's worst ones.

I expected 'And Another Thing' to be soul-less, mid range and uninspired, just another commercial fan-fiction vehicle for the characters. I expected it to stray from Douglas's rules of writing. I anticipated that Eoin might not know Adams' universe in any great detail or 'hear the music' in his lilting prose.

Those expectations have been confounded. The book rocks.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Entirely Pointless 11 Dec 2009

By heronontheshore

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I had mixed feelings when I got "And Another Thing", but I had read a couple of positive reviews and so got stuck in immediately. What a letdown! The story is weak, the characters come across as silly and insignificant, as do the dialogues. But the worst thing, in my opinion, is that the book is killing itself trying to be funny - but is actually just killing any fun or enjoyment on the reader's part, mostly through pointless insertions of the Guide's "voice", disrupting any remnants of a coherent story. I found myself skipping the "Guide" bits more and more towards the end. I love Douglas Adams' work, but this feeble attempt by Eoin Colfer to recreate the DNA magic is going straight to the charity shop!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Utterly disappointing 19 Mar 2010

By MR B KESZEI

Format:Hardcover

I'm a Douglas Adams fan and have read all his books, and like many others, thought we'd never have another book like his written by anyone ever again. This book raised my hopes the proceeded to mash them to tiny little bits. The "humour" in this "book" is mostly T&A, swearing and public school toilet humour. The places and characters are all recycled Adams characters, used over and over again for no particular reason apart from to say "look, I'm using Adams' stuff, you people like Adams' stuff!"
Take the overuse of the word "froody" for "cool". Adams first used it in the sentence "hoopy frood", so surely "hoopy" would have been a better choice of word to rip off and overuse...
Then there's little things like using Mom instead of Mum... oh come on! An Irish guy impersonating and English one by using American spelling? The mind boggles, the blood boils.
And where Adams' books are pretty much timeless (apart from references to digital watches), Colfer here has crammed in thinly-veiled refernces to YouTube, eBay, websites and mp3 players.
The plot is weak and predictable from the Bobby Ewing-style resurrection of the characters to the very end: there's nothing new or random (apart from Arthur's daughter) in the whole book, everything ties in with everything else, everyone knows everyone from before.
Reading this was a thoroughly miserable experience. It's the first time in my life I've ever considered writing hate-mail. It was a great inner battle to overcome my disappointment and not throw the book in a bin, I ended up leaving it on a train instead. But only because of the respect I have for books in general, despite travesties like this.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Tried too hard

A reasonable follow on to the hitchhiker series, but Eoin tries too hard to keep the style, and failed to grip me with his long winded footnotes and creature descriptions. Read more

Published 7 days ago by N. E. Bowker

3.0 out of 5 stars Just different

It was a nice standalone book, combining Adams's Thor of his Dirks Gently series with his characters of the Hitchhiker's series. Read more

Published 26 days ago by D. Anderson

4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite Adams, but still a good read.

It's very good. It does lack a certain something of Adams' writing that no-one else will ever capture, but still very much worth reading.

Published 27 days ago by MR S WALMSLEY

1.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointing

The elements of Adam's style that come across only remind you of how lacking book is in the Adam's level of thoughtfully funny content

Published 2 months ago by Bob Gray

4.0 out of 5 stars It is not Adams, but it is not far from it...

Douglas Adams would probably do a better job, off course, but I must say that any fan of the Hitchhiker's guide series must buy and read this one too. Read more

Published 2 months ago by Nuno Filipe Coimbra

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!

Very cleverly followed Adams' style and to fans took the story to a new dimension! Pretty seamless after so long.

Published 3 months ago by Kylesku

2.0 out of 5 stars not as good as douglas

the book is a continuation of hitch hikers
not as nearly as good as douglas adams
but still a nice read

Published 4 months ago by Malcolm Holford

2.0 out of 5 stars Unfortunately a miss

Having read the "trilogy" a number of times I was doubtful that Colfer could provide a "must read" addition. Read more

Published 4 months ago by M. Dodwell

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as Douglad Adams

The book was ok but I found it a bit disjointed. The sort of book you pick up then put down again

Published 4 months ago by A P Stockwell

5.0 out of 5 stars I could hardly tell the difference

It was years ago that I originally read the Hitchhiker's trilogy so I bought the original 5 books and this one. Read the original five and straight into this one. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Dan Wheatley

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