And Another Thing... (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #6)

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And Another Thing... (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #6)

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AN ENGLISHMAN'S CONTINUING SEARCH THROUGH SPACE AND TIME FOR A DECENT CUP OF TEA...

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 traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been bl...more

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Published October 12th 2009 by Hyperion (first published 2009)

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Mar 13, 2011 Dan Schwent rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: funny, 2010

Arthur, Random, Trillian, and Ford are rescued from the unrealities the Hitchhiker's Guide Mark II placed them in and then rescued by Zaphod Beeblebrox as the earth is getting destroyed yet again. The reunited crew is then saved from certain death by an immortal dedicated to insulting every sentient being in the galaxy. Things go pear-shaped when Arthur learns of a colony of earthlings on a planet near Magrathea and the Vogon Constructor Fleet bent on finishing what they started. Not a terribly...more

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Nov 25, 2010 Ben Babcock rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2010-read, humour, mythology-remix, post-apocalyptic, science-fiction, space-opera, 2010-worst10, owned

There are some great moments in this book, moments worthy of quotation. There is tea; there are gods; there is Vogon bureaucracy and Vogon poetry. And Another Thing... sublimely embraces the h2g2 universe by grabbing hold of it by the scruff of its neck and shaking it vigorously until more characters and random plot events fall out.

And I didn't like it.

See, h2g2's humorous nexus of improbable events with zany characters is the icing on an already delicious cake. My attraction to The Hitchhiker's...more

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Oct 15, 2009 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: sf, humour, h2g2, adventure, read-2009, read-in-one-day, bought-with-james, series, male-author, male-author-hero, latest-or-last-in-series

I was kind of scared to read this book. Actually, I was very scared, but I was also very excited--and then I read the forward. It was wonderful. Eoin Colfer knows he's not Douglas Adams, and he knows that his contribution to the trilogy won't be the same or mean the same thing to the readers. But he also clearly knows and appreciates his Hitchhiker's Guide, and he's funny.

So I read the book. It was nice right away, because the characters weren't all dead. Then the story took off on its own inte...more I was kind of scared to read this book. Actually, I was very scared, but I was also very excited--and then I read the forward. It was wonderful. Eoin Colfer knows he's not Douglas Adams, and he knows that his contribution to the trilogy won't be the same or mean the same thing to the readers. But he also clearly knows and appreciates his Hitchhiker's Guide, and he's funny.

So I read the book. It was nice right away, because the characters weren't all dead. Then the story took off on its own interesting and funny direction, and I was happy to go along in whatever really cool ship they could hitch a ride on. It clearly wasn't written by Douglas Adams, but it's also definitely part of the Hitchhiker's Guide--much more so than Terry Jones' Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, which felt like it took place in another universe (in which they use "translation blisters" instead of babblefish).

I was afraid Colfer wouldn't include the random, hilarious, interesting, and sometimes thought-provoking tangents that Douglas Adams used to fill a lot of the pages of the previous books in the trilogy, but they were in there, diverting us from the main story as always. There were a lot of things in there from the previous books that I'd worried wouldn't make it in, or things that I'd kind of forgotten about (there was another Vogon poem, although I actually don't think it was half bad). There were also plenty of new things, some of which I thought were great, some of which...well, let's just say I got tired of the word "buffa."

Still, bringing in new stuff is not only not bad, it's necessary. Books that come after other books have to add new stuff so that they won't be the same as the first books. I'm sure had Douglas Adams written another Hitchhiker's book, there would be new stuff in it. And the new things and characters in this book were good new things and good new characters. Plus, the old things and old characters were done well. Unfortunately, there was very little that was actually about Arthur. My guess is that Colfer felt more comfortable making more minor characters his own (including fleshing out the backstories--not to mention current stories--and personalities of some people only mentioned briefly in the first five books) than trying to take on Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect. And hey, apart from what I assume were his fjords, where was Slartibartfast? And where was any mention of Marvin? Just curious.

But I don't want to end on a complaining note. Other characters like Agrajag did get nice mentions. So did Douglas Adams himself--or at least an episode in his life, which I thought was a really nice touch, and actually made me a little misty, before I kept reading and got to something funny. Also, interestingly, this was the second book I read today (well, the first one I just finished today, this one I read completely)--AS WELL AS the second book I've ever read--that included the word "philately." I'm not sure what that signifies, if anything, but I wanted to mention it.

Thanks, Eoin Colfer, for bringing the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy back for a while, but most of all thanks to Douglas Adams for bringing it to us in the first place.(less)

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Jan 22, 2013 Scribble Orca rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: sci-fi

Am I becoming old?
Definitely.
Am I losing my sense of humour?
Most likely.
Am I disappointed that Eoin Colfer can't carry a candle to the late great departed Mr Adams?
Yes. The bugger.

I was conned. I was ripped off. I dreamed of dolphins and instead I got sardines.

And Arther wasn't even wearing his dressing gown.

And that reminds me, wasn't Zaphod a brunette?

And another thing...a seventh book would be killing the overkill, Mr Colfer. Please don't.

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Feb 12, 2011 Timothy Hinkle rated it 3 of 5 stars

And Another Thing makes a nicer end for Hitchhiker's than Mostly Harmless did, which, as I gather, was the point of having it written. Colfer's writing doesn't read like Adams's which is good because Colfer's own style is reasonably pleasant and I've read enough things by people pretending (unsuccessfully) to be Douglas Adams to last me Wowbagger's lifetime and bad because the reason I picked up the book was that I wanted to read a new Douglas Adams novel (alas, a thing that is not to be). Colfe...more

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Sep 13, 2010 Dan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: humorous, science-fiction, aliens

In this sixth book in the increasingly inappropriately named Hitchhikers Trilogy, we are treated once again to the very funny exploits of doomed earth-man Arthur Dent and his pals. This book is actually the first in the series not written by the now late, but still great, Douglas Adams. Filling in for him is Eoin Colfer, a man best known for his kids & teen books, but still quite a nice fellow.

In fact, during most of my time spent reading this book, I could quite easily forget that I wasn't...more

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Mar 22, 2012 Phillip Brooks rated it 2 of 5 stars

Mea culpa, I am an enormous Douglas Adams fan. I had low expectations for this book and I was not won over by the time I'd finished reading it.

While Eoin Colfer does an excellent job of trying to pick up the abandoned threads where Mostly Harmless stagnated and stalled. Instead of resolving those threads in this book, the story seems to turn inwards. There is no real movement forward with the overall tale. It reads like fan fiction from the least popular age of a show.

Had this been written by Do...more

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Nov 06, 2009 Jay Daze rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: sf, library-book

It's just wrong.

I opened And Another Thing... which Adams' widow commissioned Colfer to write with a sinking feeling and reading it has done nothing to dispel the disquiet. As much as I'd love to have another Douglas Adams' book (Hitchhikers or something else) this isn't it. There is no way it could be. Colfer gives it a valiant try. He's got the humour, he needs work on his digressions, doesn't really have that sharp organizing idea that Adams seemed to somehow structure his books around. (So...more

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Mar 15, 2013 Smcleish added it · review of another edition

Originally published on my blog here in July 2010.

I borrowed this book from the library expecting to hate it. Even though I didn't like the end of the Hitchhiker series as it stood at Douglas Adams' death, I couldn't imagine anyone else continuing it in the way that he might have been able to (if he'd overcome the blocks he experienced in the later part of his writing career). I'd also read Artemis Fowl, which made Colfer's name, and didn't think much of it.

And, when And Another Thing... came ou...more Originally published on my blog here in July 2010.

I borrowed this book from the library expecting to hate it. Even though I didn't like the end of the Hitchhiker series as it stood at Douglas Adams' death, I couldn't imagine anyone else continuing it in the way that he might have been able to (if he'd overcome the blocks he experienced in the later part of his writing career). I'd also read Artemis Fowl, which made Colfer's name, and didn't think much of it.

And, when And Another Thing... came out, it was serialised on BBC Radio 4 as an audiobook, and I listened to that and did indeed hate it. Hitchhiker was always hilarious, and the abridged version - 340 pages in 75 minutes which I'd estimate means leaving out 75% of the text - failed to raise a smile. Of course, that could have been the cuts ("let's leave out the jokes to keep the plot comprehensible"), or the way it was read (not Steve Mangan's finest hour and a quarter), or some of the plot decisions (the way Colfer got out of the problems caused by the ending of Mostly Harmless seemed trite and unconvincing to me). Would the book itself be more worth reading? Friends who might have read it turned out not to have done. So, there was only one way to find out...

Initially, my reaction was positive. At greater length, the unravelling of the finality of the ending of Mostly Harmless, while still not very imaginative, worked better and contained some amusing touches. But things do go downhill from there. Some of the issues are with the characters as created by Douglas Adams. I have always found Zaphod Beeblebrox verging on being more irritating than funny, and Colfer makes him a particularly important character here and he becomes an annoying manipulator of the plot: more self-centred than ever. Wowbagger, the immortal being who is insulting every being in the universe in alphabetical order, also turns up and is made a major character: Colfer's attempts to make him more than the brief joke he is for Adams make him at least as unsympathetic and irritating as a dealmaking Zaphod. And finally, Colfer seems to share Adams' interest in Norse myth, and a lot of the book (even more in the radio abridgement) is about Zaphod's dealings with Asgard - all very dull compared to the meeting with Thor at a party in Mostly Harmless.

All this could be forgiven if And Another Thing... had turned out to be as funny as the first few Hitchhiker books were on first reading. In this aspect, I got the impression that Colfer didn't work too hard, settling for the obvious and poor pun rather than thinking hard about exactly what would be funny. (Apparently Douglas Adams used to agonise about individual words for ages, and this shows in the inventive quality of the first three books in particular.) The way that the book-within-the-book of the actual Guide is handled here is partly to blame for the lack of laughs. The "Book" extracts are among the highlights of the original stories, being extremely funny and often explaining how the bizarre situations Arthur and Ford find themselves in arose. Here, they are intrusive, irrelevant and humourless asides (though it is fairly obvious that Colfer thinks them hilarious). Some attempt has been made to make them stand out typographically, something I don't think Adams ever did, and this, like so much else about And Another Thing... is depressingly unimaginative: the entries are printed in italics. So much more could have been done here to indicate their peripheral nature and liven up the presentation of the book.

Colfer is obviously a fan, and this makes him a good choice as a writer of a sequel. But he is not really very funny at all, even when writing his own books. (I've read Artemis Fowl, and it seems like a good idea - a child evil genius - let down by a lack of imagination and lazy writing, though many people seem to think it extremely funny.) In the end, And Another Thing... reads like a not very wonderful piece of fan fiction, of the sort published in vast quantities on the Internet: and I feel sure that there are likely to be better sequels to Hitchhiker available free at fanfiction.net.(less)

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Mar 22, 2011 Alberto Schiariti rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Non mi era mai stato così difficile aprire la prima pagina di un libro. Se siete qua, sicuramente avrete letto i precedenti 5 capitoli della Saga più geniale che mente umana abbia mai concepito. La Guida Galattica è più di un libro. E' un Formaggio. I più svegli di voi si saranno sicuramente accorti che il buon vecchio Douglas ci ha abbandonati un po' di anni fa.

E questo nuovo capitolo!? E' stato affidato a Eoin Colfer. Non avevo la più pallida idea di chi fosse, ma una volta che ho saputo di qu...more

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Apr 24, 2013 Bjorn rated it 1 of 5 stars

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy - the encyclopedia, not the novel - has a lot of information on sequels. For instance, we can read about an expert on robot construction on the planet DNA Prime, who gained fame for a series of five robots often considered the best in their class. They could do tricks, tell jokes, spin absolutely insane stories that still somehow seemed to be about regular people, and were generally just really great to hang out with. (Even if some people claimed that the la...more The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy - the encyclopedia, not the novel - has a lot of information on sequels. For instance, we can read about an expert on robot construction on the planet DNA Prime, who gained fame for a series of five robots often considered the best in their class. They could do tricks, tell jokes, spin absolutely insane stories that still somehow seemed to be about regular people, and were generally just really great to hang out with. (Even if some people claimed that the last robot was pretty depressing, and not in a fun way.)

Sadly, the famous robot builder died before he could build a sixth robot to repair the fifth one, so after a suitable time, his widow hired a successful builder of toy robots from the planet Eringo Beta to build it instead. He quickly dug up the blueprints for the first five and got on it.

After several months of hard work, he presented the result to an excited crowd. At first, many remained cautiously optimistic; sure, the bodywork was patched together from parts that he'd copied from the five original robots without adding anything new, but they were sure that once he switched the robot on, it was bound to do something entertaining.

He hit the switch.

"Fffffffffroody," said the robot and moved its left knee a bit. (The knee had been a small detail on the third robot, added mostly as a joke, but was now supposed to carry the whole construction.) "Frood. Froooody." It paused long enough for the more fanatical audience members to remember that one of the old robots had indeed used the word "frood" at one point, though it now seemed to make up the new robot's entire vocabulary. "Frood," it added as if to underline this, as a small plume of smoke started rising from its head. (The head, which had been many people's favourite detail in the first five robots, didn't do much at all apart from this, except have a cup of tea now and then.)

The robot builder was, understandably, starting to panic. None of the parts he'd copied from the old robots seemed to be hooked up to the motherboard as they didn't actually do anything, and it was becoming clear that building the entire frame from little throwaway details with no strong structure of his own was a Very Bad Idea. "Uh... um... hang on," he called and ran into his workshop to retrieve an extra part (made from open source technology that everyone already knew) which he attached to the robot's back. The robot, which had only been balanced to stand perfectly still and impress with its mere existence and official Sequel status, immediately tipped onto said back with a hollow "bong" and lay there perfectly still, frooding quietly to itself, while a part from the fifth robot which had never worked right in the first place made a high-pitched whining noise.

One by one, the audience filed out. In the paper the next day, the new robot builder was dismissed as an "epp", which is Betelgeuse slang for "probably a great guy if you buy him a pint, but who doesn't seem to have any clue about building this kind of robot and should probably have let us keep our memories of the old ones intact."

And if you think that joke is old, stay the hell away from And Another Thing... .(less)

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Apr 08, 2013 Nick rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-fiction

So, I was wandering through a used book store, not looking for anything in particular, when I stumbled upon this.

I walked past it.

I stopped, and retraced my steps.

I squinted, confusion spreading across my face.

I picked it up. The confusion failed to dissipate.

Somehow, despite being a pretty avid fan of the works of Douglas Adams, I had simply never heard of this book. I wasn't exactly sure how to feel about the existence of an "official" H2G2 trilogy book by anyone other than Adams himself. I de...more

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Feb 04, 2013 Daniel Brandon rated it 4 of 5 stars

First of all, I had no idea how to pronounce his name. I say "his" based on the dustjacket picture, I wouldn't have even known that otherwise. He's apparently Irish, and with that in mind I probably would have guessed that his name was pronounced either phonetically as "Eowyn," which can't be right since it's a girl's name, or something unlikely and glommed together, like "Yawn." Wikipedia says it's "Owen," which actually seems like a decent compromise between phonetic and unlikely to my Yanqui...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Ryan Robinson rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: sci-fi, adventure, comedy

I am torn at what this book embodies. The original 5 book trilogy was legendary and as such I have read the books many times. I was happy to see the characters live on this book but it felt, off.

The story layout was much more structured and less random than the original series. It read as if there was a difinate goal in mind from the author. I thought the characters weren't used to full advantge or correctly. Wowbagger was a great character before because he was a joke. A leading character in t...more

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Dec 16, 2012 JBradford added it

This is Volume 6 of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, and I purchased it while a member of the Science-Fiction/Fantasy Book Club mostly because I had read the previous five volumes and enjoyed them. This book was written eight years after Douglas Adams, the author of the first five volumes, had died and it was published to mark the 30th aniversary of the first volume, which had originally started life as a radio show in Great Britain. Colfer was given permission to write the book by...more

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JBradford This is Volume 6 of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, and I purchased it while a member of the Science-Fiction/Fantasy Book Club mostly be...more
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Nov 22, 2012 Andrew Fish rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: comedy

There have been many things written about the Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Many of them are scandalous, many more are only libelous, most are simply untrue – although in accordance with Dr Han Streetmentioner’s theory of the quasi-reciprocality of truth this means that they are almost certainly the kind of indisputable facts for denying which a major religion could kill you.

One of those untruths, and here the author undertakes his statement with full awareness of the risk of a multi-dimens...more

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Nov 19, 2012 Ben Avery rated it 4 of 5 stars

This really surprised me. I put off reading it because it was a sequel written by someone who was not Douglas Adams . . . But when I saw it at Big Lots for $.50 I figured I had nothing to lose.

And it really surprised me. It was funny in parts, touching in parts, and thought provoking in parts . . . which is all like Douglas Adams, but not quite LIKE Douglas Adams.

It was a valiant effort to honor the Hitchhiker's style, and while i will never understand why anyone would try to continue a series...more

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Oct 26, 2012 Dave Keays rated it 2 of 5 stars

Maybe I was expecting too much when I heard he was a continuation of one of my favorite Science Fiction authors that passed away- Douglas Adams. But when compared to Douglas Adams, I found his story to be tiring because it was so predictable and so difficult to follow. Compared to other authors I don't think he was short in these areas, but compared to Douglas Adams he was.

As an example, the story so logical was able to anticipate what he was going to say about sub ether and that it was basicall...more

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Aug 13, 2012 Chris rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: humor, science-fiction

If you pay close attention, Colfer tells you exactly what you can expect from this book right at the beginning, using a well-chosen quote from Douglas Adams: “The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.” (So Long and Thanks for All the Fish)

As Adams well knew, the phrase "And another thing..." is superfluous. It is said by the person who just c...more

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Jul 08, 2012 Erika RS rated it 1 of 5 stars

This was an attempt at a sixth book for Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Although the book has some good moments, overall, it just didn't hold me. It may not have been worse than the worst of the original books, but it certainly had no where near the wit and sparkle of the best.

If I had to summarize it's flaws, I would say that they stem from the Colffer's over reliance on guide notes to explain things that did not really need explaining and his rambling style. I was also...more

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Feb 27, 2012 Scott Gray rated it 4 of 5 stars

Like a lot of people, i reacted to the news that Eoin Colfer had been tapped to write a follow-on to Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" quintrilogy with equal amounts of "That might be cool" and "What the holy heck?" Having finally worked up the courage to approach And Another Thing with what I hoped was an open mind, my status report changes to "That was definitely cool" and "What the holy heck?"

Colfer does a fairly amazing job of channeling the spirit and storytelling style of A...more

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Feb 15, 2012 Adam rated it 3 of 5 stars

Major ambivalence here (and some vague spoilers ahead, so beware). There are certainly some hilarious parts (the Cthulu interview comes to mind). But there are lots of parts that try to be funny but just aren't because of how hard they/Colfer are trying. There are some great moments that it was an absolute pleasure to live through with our revived heroes, but there are a LOT of tedious moments in between. Much of the overall concept is apropos, considering Douglas Adams' well-known atheism--and...more

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Jan 11, 2012 Eric rated it 3 of 5 stars

With the tragic Author Existence Failure of the late Douglas Adams, it seemed as if his Hitchhiker's Guide series was doomed to end on a tremendous downer. Enter Eoin Colfer, taking on the daunting task of stepping into the shoes of the galaxy's hoopiest frood to give H2G2 fans a more fitting farewell for their beloved characters.

What's immediately apparent is that Colfer is not Adams, and for the first fourth or so of the book I had the unsatisfying feeling of reading a work that felt almost, b...more With the tragic Author Existence Failure of the late Douglas Adams, it seemed as if his Hitchhiker's Guide series was doomed to end on a tremendous downer. Enter Eoin Colfer, taking on the daunting task of stepping into the shoes of the galaxy's hoopiest frood to give H2G2 fans a more fitting farewell for their beloved characters.

What's immediately apparent is that Colfer is not Adams, and for the first fourth or so of the book I had the unsatisfying feeling of reading a work that felt almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a Hitchhiker's Guide novel. For every bit that expertly channels Douglas Adams's sublime grasp of the absurd, there's another lurking around the corner filled with a sort of oblivious awkwardness, like a grandfather trying too hard to be hip to another generation's style. The effort to reproduce Adams's astute silliness occasionally leads Colfer into juvenile silliness and even a few instances of potty humor. (I never expected to see the term "doo-doo" in a Hitchhiker book.) The characters speak and act in ways that feel forced and contrived and not in keeping with the personalities developed in the first five volumes.

Somewhere in the middle of the book, though, Colfer finds the right voices for the characters, and the quirky language and off-the-wall asides start to click. Although his style is not identical to Adams, I finally felt as though he was writing about the same characters I had come to know in the first five volumes, and with that came interest in the fates he had devised for them. Somewhere along the way, I stopped unconsciously comparing him to Adams at every turn, and started to enjoy his writing on its own merits.

The ending purposely leaves a couple loose threads untied, but it ultimately gave the satisfaction of seeing Arthur, Ford, Trillian, Zaphod, and Random ending their literary careers alive and well, and even with a measure of happiness, which was the whole point of the book, after all.

I would have liked to see Slartibartfast make an appearance somewhere along the way, but I suppose one can't have everything.

Conclusion: Mostly entertaining.(less)

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Nov 30, 2011 Emma Thompson rated it 1 of 5 stars

To say that I disliked this book would be an understatement. I have only finished this book because I despise leaving books unfinished. Now, I told myself when I sat down to read it that I had to judge this book on two criteria, I had to judge it as a novel in it's own right and I have to judge it as a hitchhikers book, but as I read the only point I kept coming back to is that this is an awful hitchhikers book, miles worse then any Douglas Adams wrote. It completely lacks the wit and sparkle of...more

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Oct 10, 2011 Toni rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Attempting to tell someone about any of the books in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is next to impossible. It can be done, but will it make any sense? I'm not even going to try, except to say that this story takes up where the last one left off and involves Vogons, a colony of Earthlings who survived the destruction of their planet to make way for a superhighway, the god Thor, his stolen longboat which has been made into a spaceship, and several other unrelated subjects....more

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Sep 28, 2011 Ian rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: boring, comic, sci-fi

1.5 stars for the effort, but Colfer's book reads more like fanfiction set in the HHGG universe rather than a proper new novel and conclusion. Most elements and gags are recycled from older stories, giving it a feel of a 'best of' where you keep retreading the same tracks rather than visiting something new. It doesn't help that the notes from the Guide, an important part of the previous books, here feel like annoying intermissions that break up the pacing rather than well-thought diversions that...more

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Sep 23, 2011 D. T. rated it 1 of 5 stars

The quote from which Colfer pulls his title rather says it all: "The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing...' twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument."

And Another Thing... is the written embodiment of that quote: it's too little, too late. It neither accomplishes anything useful nor does it add anything other than an unsatisfying addendum to a long finished conversation. Ultimately, it...more

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Aug 26, 2011 David Campton rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: humourous-fiction, science-fiction

Hope and experience slugged it out again... And as usual I backed that loser "Hope"... This is hugely disappointing... but then I suppose that makes Eoin Colfer the perfect inheritor of Douglas Adams' mantle. The original trilogy were nothing short of brilliant, but Adam's famous disregard for deadlines and (in my opinion) the contempt of him and his publishers for his loyal readership, meant that his last couple were merely exercises in commercial cynicism devoid of wit or original narrative......more

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Aug 11, 2011 Anders rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: library-books

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Jul 30, 2011 Nathan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Was slightly unsure about the whole thing; H2G2 is probably my favourite collection of books, and while I really like Artemis Fowl as well, there was always going to be a bit of trepidation going into this. But honestly, just reading the foreword allayed that fear. It was funny, clever, it was interesting, it was fun. I thought Colfer dealt very well with picking it up after Mostly Harmless, and did a very good job of keeping it within the H2G2 world while still making it...more

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Eoin Colfer (pronounced Owen) was born in Wexford on the South-East coast of Ireland in 1965, where he and his four brothers were brought up by his father and mother, who were both educators.

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And Another Thing... (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #6)

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