Sixth Hitchhiker's Guide "And Another Thing... " out 12/10/09

[Sadken]

Burn the witch!

 

[Beanburger]

I don't get Pratchett at all. Had plenty of people say 'Oh, you like Adams? Try this!' and I found it utterly shite. Let's start the book by describing this strained wacky world instead of just accidentally having a talking Dish of the Day, type thing.

Certainly overrated. Read one book, you've read 'em all. Kinda like the literary equivalent of Little Britain.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

How interesting. I bet it's shit though. Hold on didn't they all die in the last book? Mind you plot holes across books never bothered Adams did it.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Adams was a very british writer. Robert Rankin and Terry Pratchett are two others who have similar types of delivery. There have to be others out there. WHERE ARE THEY? Gaiman anyone?

I found Rankin too boring and Pratchett just shit unfunny and annoying even.

 

[Infidel Castro]

I could weep.

 

[SpookyFrank]

That extract is pretty painful. It reads like a first draft of something, the sentences are all clumsy and horrid.

 

[5t3IIa]

Atomic Suplex knows.

 

[Beanburger]

Even the "part six of three" subtitle is crass and unoriginal. Douglas Adams did the whole "trilogy in four parts" thing years ago. Get your own joke, you cunt.

 

[5t3IIa]

Even the "part six of three" subtitle is crass and unoriginal. Douglas Adams did the whole "trilogy in four parts" thing years ago. Get your own joke, you cunt.

It's all the same joke, you idiot!




Good old urbans - this thread needed beef to get going

 

[Beanburger]

It's all the same joke, you idiot!

Fuck off, or I'll tie you up and read Terry Pratchett to you in small doses.

 

[5t3IIa]

Fuck off, or I'll tie you up and read Terry Pratchett to you in small doses.

It's the fourth worst prose in the galaxy

 

[elevendayempire]

This is apparently thr first in a (...nother) triology and two other people are giving the second and third a bash. Not so different to your idea, which is nothing but your daydream.

Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl is pretty good, I think, and it doesn't utterly offend me that he's done this.

Richard...Dawkins?

Yeah, get Dawkins to write the foreword, or something. Gaiman would be good too, IIRC he knew Adams, didn't he?

Incidentally, this Doctor Who book is (going on the evidence of that Times extract) a vastly superior Adams pastiche, in that it starts from the premise "What would Adams be writing about now?" The villains are "selfish memes" - self-propagating ideas that are used to destroy civilisations. So the entire opening chapter is an Adams-style yarn about an Easter Island-esque civilisation that destroys itself after discovering religion and wasting all their resources building statues...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Even the "part six of three" subtitle is crass and unoriginal. Douglas Adams did the whole "trilogy in four parts" thing years ago. Get your own joke, you cunt.

I always liked - "Part 5 in the ever increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers trilogy".

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Atomic Suplex knows.

I met Terry Pratchitt and he was just like his books. Not a bad person but I don't think I could hang around him for more than five minutes.

I met Douglas Adams as well a long time ago. He didn't say anything funny.

 

[Santino]

I met Douglas Adams as well a long time ago. He didn't say anything funny.

What a selfish cunt. Death was too good for him.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

What a selfish cunt. Death was too good for him.

Exactly. He was plugging that piece of shit starship titanic at the time too so I was not best pleased with him.

 

[5t3IIa]

The Book at Bedtime is at 10.45pm.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The Book at Bedtime is at 10.45pm.

Well reminded. Might give it a go.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

???

 

[5t3IIa]

Book at Bedtime on Radio 4

 

[SpookyFrank]

Read by Steven Mangan and Peter Serafinowatsit

 

[5t3IIa]

Peter Whatsit! Yay!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Fail. Everyone knows that the central tragedy of THHGTTG is that Arthur never gets a nice cup of tea

 

[5t3IIa]

Oh dear

 

[5t3IIa]

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[SpookyFrank]

Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened? Remember when this happened?

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WE'VE ALL READ THE FUCKING BOOKS

 

[5t3IIa]

Mangan is making a cock of it too. Too squeaky.

I'm still gonna read it though

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

What , they read some on the radio?

 

[5t3IIa]

What , they read some on the radio?

Yes. Book at Bedtime on Radio 4 is a daily, or Mon-Thurs?, reading of adapted books at 2245 - 2300. Probably been going since Radio4 has.

It'll be on Listen Again by now

 

[ebay sex moomin]

I think I prefer Vogon poetry

I met Douglas Adams as well a long time ago. He didn't say anything funny.

Did he try to steal your digestives?