New Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy book.

[Santino]

I liked the bit about making a sandwich and the Elvis joke from the fifth book.

 

[Sadken]

Can you still buy non-film tie-in copies of HHGTTG in shops these days? I don't want my kids growing up reading that filth.

 

[DotCommunist]

What's an "Artemis Fowl" novel?






Sounds ghastly....

Artemis Fowl, Bo Genius, super criminal who beats up elves.

Imagine if hary potter was cool, evil and well written and your close to understanding Artemis Fowl. Funny kids books with just the right touch of tragedy

 

[DotCommunist]

I guess that I don't really see the *point* of this book (other than the commercial point, of course, but then you have to ask, as a fan, what is the point of buying this book? Which brings you back to the original question.)

H2G2 was entirely a Douglas Adams beast. It was all about his dialogue, his take on the universe, his writing style. It doesn't exist outside of a Douglas Adams context, so extending it without Douglas Adams just seems pointless. Really, I am a massive H2G2 fan but I have no interest whatsoever in buying or reading this book. So I wonder who *does* have an interest in it and why?

Well, massive fans will buy it just to see if it's any good. Doesn't matter if they think it's shit, the sale has been made.

Much as Kevin fucking Ndersone mugged me off by writing some godawful shite with a Dune stamp on it. If your reading this Kev, stay the fuck out of Kettering you cackhanded hack

 

[DotCommunist]

Can you still buy non-film tie-in copies of HHGTTG in shops these days? I don't want my kids growing up reading that filth.

theres a good four book edition from the last decade, blue cross-hatched cover. I reccomend it.

Also: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency is worth spending a fiver on

 

[Sadken]

Yeah, I've read Dirk and liked it. I had the four book edition but the pages have all come away

 

[onemonkey]

innit, as far as i could tell Mostly Harmless was fucking dog wank

i thought it was mostly harmless

and i quite liked the reverse temporal engineering meta-narrative

 

[The Groke]

Bo Genius

Is that like Bo Selecta?

 

[DotCommunist]

Is that like Bo Selecta?

oops, missed off a Y

Nah artemis fowl is good kids fic imo. Certainly far superior to the patronising shite peddled by Rowling.
The author might, on a 50 to one shot nail Adams style and do a good job. Much as Satan might oneday need to go to work on a snow plough

 

[DotCommunist]

Yeah, I've read Dirk and liked it. I had the four book edition but the pages have all come away

come the revolution, shoddy bookbinders are third against the wall tovarisch.

 

[Gromit]

Soon they will be able to make a real hitchikers guide from the book

Douglas attempted a real guide for the tinternet, a wiki sort of format. It didn't really take off, but the beeb had it off him in the end.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/

 

[Clint Iguana]

The Hitch Hikers books were fairly average stories, what made them stand out was the wit of Adams. How on earth anyone can contemplate trying to copy his unique style beggars belief.

 

[Badgers]

Fail

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The people who decided this should be shot.

 

[RicardoOP2SG]

just dont read it! i dont see whats important here

 

[kyser_soze]

Much as Kevin fucking Ndersone mugged me off by writing some godawful shite with a Dune stamp on it. If your reading this Kev, stay the fuck out of Kettering you cackhanded hack

Yeah, but you still read them all, Butlerian Jihad and the 'House' series, knowing they'd be shite, but because it's easier than writing a Dune book yourself, same as me

 

[Rainingstairs]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm

Um fuck off <message ends>

dunno...sounds like a really bad idea...

 

[DotCommunist]

Yeah, but you still read them all, Butlerian Jihad and the 'House' series, knowing they'd be shite, but because it's easier than writing a Dune book yourself, same as me

it's angering coz its trueb

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I thought the Dirk Gently books were pretty shit when I read them but that was about 20 years ago now. I would like to re read but I have never seen them anywhere.
First two hitchhikers were pretty good but I started reading them about four years ago and nearly died of boredom. I always thought the third one was utter wank, full of ideas that were maybe left over from all his other ideas not good enough for anything (restaurant table bill drive and the planet of mattresses FFS).
I have always been fond of So long and thanks for all the fish but am afraid to read it incase I only really like the aside about the biscuits at the train station.

I liked mostly harmless but was upset that it wiped out Fenchurch in a line. Best book tagline though.



There, my tupence.

 

[scifisam]

Sure, we can just not buy the book, but I'd rather it never existed at all. Dpn't know why it bothers me so much - it just does, OK?

oops, missed off a Y

Nah artemis fowl is good kids fic imo. Certainly far superior to the patronising shite peddled by Rowling.
The author might, on a 50 to one shot nail Adams style and do a good job. Much as Satan might oneday need to go to work on a snow plough

It is good kids' fic, well-plotted, but the writing style and the humour are extremely unsophisticated. I can't really understand why anyone thought of Colfer for this book - unless all the satirists turned it down, or something.

There's no way I'll be buying any Eoin Colfer book ever again, that's for sure.

 

[kabbes]

That bit about biscuits at the train station really happened to DNA, you know. He didn't make it up.

And the bit on the mattress planet was the best bit in the whole series.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

This news is as wrong as a very wrong thing.

First they trashed the original in that fucking film, now this. Hear that noise? It's probably the sound of Douglas Adams revolving at around 78rpm.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

That bit about biscuits at the train station really happened to DNA, you know. He didn't make it up.

And the bit on the mattress planet was the best bit in the whole series.

Well it's a nice story told well in the book. I hate the "hey there I'm wacky" Mattress bollocks.

 

[kyser_soze]

Are we talking about the mattresses on Squornshellous Zeta perchance?

I've got to be honest, I found the series suffered from Pratchettism after Restaurant - LU&E is OK, especially the Bistromath and Krikkit and all, but I just found the style got too homey, the way Pratchett books are all basically the same - find some bit part player in mainstream fantasy and write a whole story about them, use the same allusions (lazy and/or tardy and/or depressed sunrises)...blah blah blah...

 

[DotCommunist]

Thats a bit unfair to Pratchett, kyser, he does every now and then pull a social satare like Small Gods or Jingo. It would be over-egging it to call him the modern Swift, but he is good.

 

[kyser_soze]

Probably, and I really loved Good Omens, but I gave up on the Discworld novels. I mean there's always some satire in them, but...y'know...

 

[alsoknownas]

Well, I just finished reading Airman (by Eoin Colfer), and I have to say it was *very* ordinary. Worst still, any attempts at humour sunk faster than a lead balloon. For this man to write a passable H2G2 book he is going to need the Improbability Drive itself.

 

[Gromit]

I won't be buying it and thats for sure.

 

[onemonkey]

if they were going to get anyone they should have got Gideon Defoe.

Of course, they shouldn't get anyone so forget i mentioned it.