Purple’s Comments (group member since Jan 22, 2008)

Purple’s comments from the Douglas Adams (incorporating The Hitchhiker's Guide) group.

Ha! Nice! :)

Welcome, all!

I really should source the radio series. I should have heard that by now - there is just no excuse!

Right - I'm on it...

Kirk wrote: "I think there is a way to add an alternate cover without adding a new edition. I'm not sure on how to do that or if it even is possible."

A quick search of the Librarian Group and I turned this up:

http://www.goodreads.com/help/show/85...

If it has a unique ISBN I think you're supposed to add another edition, though.

Hope this helps!

I'm afraid I have to agree with Lydia. I didn't like the book at all. Terrible guide notes, wasted character usage, far too many 'something-o-somethings', and the whole 'stories never end, they're just a middle' bit made a joke of the entire book.

Major dissapointment and a real reason to miss Douglas even more.

Hi David! Wow, you actually met DA? That's pretty cool! Did you get a chance to chat at all, or was it just a brief encounter? Just out of interest why 'So Long...' was it the one you were buying at the time, or did you take that book especially? I was at that Forbidden Planet at the weekend as it goes!

As for Robert Rankin, I've read 'The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse' and have to say I enjoyed it. It was set in Toy Town, and thus was quite like Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crimes books. I'd certainly recommend it, and it seemed like a fair place to start his books with. I have a copy of 'The Brightonomicon', but have yet to read it (I planned on reading 'The Cryptonomicon' first, but have yet to do so (big book; no time!)) I also have 'Waiting for Godalming' as I live nearby as Robert clearly does also, but again time restrains me!

Cynthiaj, out of curiosity why do you consider Dirk Gently better? Anything in particular? Does anybody else feel the same?

Hi Cynthiaj! Thanks for joining and posting! Welcome!

I have noticed that the Artemis Fowl books are popular with a certain demographic...

I'll certainly read the book when it comes out, but I'm hardly going in with out prejudice. Unfair, yes, but it can't be helped!

Does it really need to be? No, of course not. Douglas may have said that he intended to write a sixth book, but that doesn't mean that if he can't someone else should. Still, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, as they say..!

I've always meant to get into Pratchett, but have found starting his body of work a somewhat daunting prospect... My sister loves his books, though, and tells me (often) that it's rewarding to do so!

As I'm sure most of you have heard, Eoin Colfer is to pen a sixth instalment in the trilogy, which is to be released on Monday 12th October 2009, 30 years after the publication of the first book. A few links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainm...
http://eoincolfer.com/news/hitchhiker...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOMAMY...

So, what are your thoughts on this? Have you read any Artemis Fowl? I haven't and am completely ignorant of Eoin's work, however, from what he says about writing the new book, he does seem to be the right man for the job, if the job has to be done. Does it?

I must admit to being pretty sceptical myself...

Ha ha!

People often make comparisons between Adams and Jasper Fforde. Although it's not really sci-fi, there're still crazy situations and characters in his books. Same goes for Robert Rankin, although I've only read one of his so far...

Hello!

So, where do you start with a man who crams more ideas onto a single page than most writers can gather in a whole book?

I have no recollection of my first introduction to the wonderful works of Mr Adams, although I'm fairly sure it would've been the Hitchhikers Guide. It's just seems to be a story that I've always known!