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    And Another Thing ...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Part Six Of Three

    Written by Eoin Colfer

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    And Another Thing...will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy

    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 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.

    And Another Thing...by Eoin Colfer is the rather unexpected, but very welcome, sixth instalment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favourite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer and at least one very large slab of cheese.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin UK Audio
    Release dateOct 11, 2009
    ISBN9780141931203
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    And Another Thing ...: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Part Six Of Three
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    Eoin Colfer

    Eoin Colfer is the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series as well as two adult crime novels, Plugged, which was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Screwed. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.

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    • 4/5
      I am happy to say I finally read through all of the "Hitchhiker's Guide" books, many, many years after I bought them. The first four…no big deal, they were in one collected volume. The fifth I found at a remainder sale, and I finally got around to reading THAT too. And a darker ending to a light-hearted series I could hardly imagine…

      The reason I read them all over again—besides the fact that they're entertaining and funny—is that I encountered this, the SIXTH book in the "trilogy". In a dollar store, of all places. Guess maybe the publisher counted on better sales…still, their loss, my gain.

      The author, Eoin Colfer, is the creator of the hugely successful Artemis Fowl series, and Douglas Adams' widow Jane approved the choice. I can't say I can disagree. While at least one of my friends rolled his eyes at seeing me with a copy, I liked it. A lot. Like the original books, there's a lot of digression and explanation of events and phraseology, and the humor is typically dry as the Sahara, but if you like this sort of thing, you'll dig it. I was raised on Python, so I get it.

      I will grant you, it's uneven and at times choppy, but ultimately it's quite satisfying, and a worthy conclusion to one of the most beloved sci-fi series of all time. Chances are if you enjoyed the first five books and were wondering what happened to Arthur, Trillian, Ford, Zaphod and the lot, you'll have a good time and a good laugh or two (or more) along the way. Heck, just the notion of someone auditioning Gods is worthy of note. I think Douglas would've approved.

      Recommended.
    • 4/5
      I had very mixed feelings about this book before I read it. On the one hand, I felt downright insulted that someone would try to squeeze more cash out of the Adam's legacy like this. On the other hand, I have a whole lot of faith in Eoin Colfer's writing. Because of that faith, and understanding that even Douglas Adams felt that book 5 was a terribly place to leave the series, I was willing to give this book a read.

      I have coworkers who weren't born when I first read the earlier books in this series. I make HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy references often, and re-read the books periodically. I knew it would be impossible to read this latest installment with anything close to objectivity; I didn't even try. I reminded myself that I read for the pleasure of it, and dove in.

      I very much enjoyed this book! It was so fun to visit this universe and spend time with these characters. The characterization was excellent. I could tell who spoke without having to check dialogue tags, the voices were so very clear and true to the cannon. This volume placed itself firmly in the same universe as the previous ones without smacking you over the head with continuity porn.

      That being said, I hesitate to encourage fans of Douglas Adams to read this one. As I mentioned, I am far from objective about this book. I cannot tease out how much I enjoyed this book for itself, and how much I enjoyed this book because it let me have a new story in a universe I love. I have a vague feeling that the plot was more shallow than other installments of the series, but that could be me over-compensating for how much I love the universe. This book is certainly better than "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" but that's a pretty low bar.

      I would love to discuss this book with someone who's read this, but none of the previous books in the series. I can often get a feel for how a book in a series would read as a stand-alone - I can't in this case. If this is your first foray into HHGG, give me a holler. I'd love to talk :)
    • 4/5
      For being a book finishing off a series started by a legendary writer such as Douglas Adams, "And Another Thing..." by Eoin Colfer was an entertaining finish to the Hitchhiker's Guide series. Some of the styling Adams has used in the first five books was adopted by Colfer, while at the same time some of it seems to have been a bit overused. In the end, it was a welcomed ending to the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series. After reading Colfer's work wit these characters, I feel that I will have to pick up one of his own creations soon.
    • 2/5
      Bit disappointing.
    • 4/5
      Captures the essence of hitchhiker's perfectly
    • 4/5
      I found it surprisingly similar in style to the original (first) book, especially in the early parts; not at all like _Mostly Harmless_, which in my opinion really ought never to have been written. The single thing I dislike is the fact that so many of the new names are puns, and rather bad (or pointless) ones at that. Other than that it deserves its place in the trilogy.
    • 4/5
      An admirable attempt to keep the Hitchhiking magic alive but didn't do it for me. Worth a try if you are a fan of the original.
    • 2/5
      the book had the correct Douglas Adams characters but lacked any of the character of his writing. Not worth the purchase or time spent reading it.
    • 4/5
      I read it with little hopes, but it finally conquered me. Delicious and honest, but a bit sad at the end
    • 4/5
      As a longtime fan of the series, I approached this book with some trepidation. After all, I had pretty lukewarm feelings about Colfer's Artemis Fowl books. I am pleased to report that I was not disappointed. This book is hilarious. And, in a lot of ways, it makes up for the rather disappointing end to Mostly Harmless. All your favorite characters are here: Trillian, Zaphod, Arthur, and assorted other characters. No Marvin, but I'm pretty sure something final happened to him in a previous book. The Guide notes are marvelous and I did quite a lot of laughing throughout the story. The ending wraps up more or less satisfactorily while still left wide open for any future installments. To be honest, I did not expect to recommend this book to fans of the series, but I definitely do. It's a pile of fun.
    • 3/5
      I think that Colfer managed to capture Adams' style of humour in the book. Sadly, I thought the series was a wearing thin after the first couple of books. This book carries in a similar vein.
    • 3/5
      When they announced they were going to continue the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, I was ecstatic. For one thing, it's my absolute favorite series and another, the ending to "Mostly Harmless" was far to bleak for my taste. I understand not every book needs a happy ending and sometimes the ending you want isn't the ending that best fits the story (i.e Stephen King's The Dark Tower) but you can't help but feel that ending was not ultimately where Mr. Adams wanted to leave it. Somehow I thought in my mind to replicate something not quite on par with Douglas but close enough that I would thoroughly enjoy it. I knew Eion Coifer has good critical reception with his "Artemis Fowl" series so I was fairly confident in the quality of the book. What I received was disappointing. Not a bad book in the least bit, it is actually pretty well written... if it wasn't a Hitchhiker's Guide book. Every character feels slightly off base, like watching your favorite characters on a television series being played a different set of actors. I have the same feeling about the plotline although I did enjoy how EIon chose to write how they escaped the destruction of the Earth. Otherwise, the story falls pretty flat for me. One of my favorite parts of the original series was the entries in the guide the transitioned to the plotline with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy has this to say on the subject of ...." and to see the Guide entries reduced to post-it notes really took me out of the book where the original I was utterly lost in. By far though, the most disappointing aspect of the book is that it was not nearly as funny. While reading the original there were parts where I had to actually put down the book because I was laughing so hard, while this book I believe the only part I truly laughed at was a cow jumping out and yelling "Eat me!" which I can't even recall very clearly. Overall, I do not think Eion Coifer is a bad writer but I also do not believe he was the right choice to continue the series. Personally, considering their history with Douglas, I wrote much rather have seen a collaboration between Neil Gaiman, Stephen Fry, and Richard Dawkins to finish the series. Sounds strange I know, but that's just one hoopy frood's opinion.
    • 4/5
      An admirable attempt to keep the Hitchhiking magic alive but didn't do it for me. Worth a try if you are a fan of the original.
    • 3/5
      I'm always a little leery of someone continuing a dead author's series. But I got it at the dollar store. So I went in with low expectations and enjoyed the silly nonsense.
    • 3/5
      I really liked this addition to the Hitchhiker's Guide. It was just as funny as the other books in the series and I feel like Colfer managed to capture Adams' writing style. Except that I really hated the ending. Even though it wouldn't be entirely true to the series, I wish that Arthur would have been allowed to have a happy ending. I was really disappointed about him ending up on the beach by himself, so disappointed I ended up deducting a star from the rating.
    • 1/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      I started to read this book with mixed feelings. And after finishing it, the mixed feelings remain... Good to see the good old characters, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod, Trillian, etc. The story not bad either with the vogons and Thor (!). But it's simply not Douglas Adams. A had a premonition that nobody can imitate DNA's unique gularious style and I was right.....
    • 4/5
      I was so prepared to hate this book. A sequel to Douglas Adams' classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series seemed to me like an ill-advised idea to begin with, a clear attempt to cash in on a dead man's legacy. And the choice of Eoin Colfer to write it only cemented that opinion, as I'd read the first two of Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels, and they utterly failed to impress me. In fact, not only was I prepared to hate this thing, I actually got all stupidly self-righteous about my refusal to read it. And then a well-meaning friend bought me a copy for my birthday, thus giving me the opportunity to keep my stupid self-righteousness -- hey, I didn't choose to read the thing, I had to in order to be polite! -- while also being able to satisfy my undeniable curiosity about it.Well, surprise, surprise. It's not awful! It islittle too hard to capture Adams' style and instead ends up with something that feels derivative or forced. Also, he seems to think that goofy made-up alien words and bad-pun names are intrinsically hilarious and automatically make everything funnier. Not only is he wrong about that, but he just doesn't have anywhere near the facility with that kind of thing that Adams did.The plot is very, very silly, which is as it should be. I have slightly mixed feelings about the characters, though. Colfer does a really fun Zaphod, and his Ford is pretty good, too, but Arthur tends to fade into the background a little too much. And I find what he does with Trillian mildly annoying, although it's been long enough since I read the last couple of Hitchhiker's books that I couldn't say for sure whether her characterization is consistent or not.Bottom line: Once I got over the "They let who write what?!" factor and tried to just take it on its own merits, it was a reasonably entertaining story. Definitely not Douglas Adams. But not awful, either.
    • 1/5
      I hated this book. One of the worst books I've read in a long time. The dialogue and humor felt very juvenile. The characters as portrayed in this book are shallow, not particularly likeable, and nearly indistinguishable from one another. And the numerous "guide notes" came off as completely artificial and arbitrary, lacking any of the wit or charm that we've come to expect from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker entries. Terrible.
    • 3/5
      The only reason this is rated so low is because I'm just sick of looking at it and I think it's effecting my judgement.I started reading this directly after spending a few days reading H2G2 Ultimate Guide- I know now I should have waited- and approximately 100 pages to the end I just couldn't do it anymore. I had officially run out of gas and was totally burnt out on Hitchhikers. So it's sat on my shelf for MONTHS until now, when I decided to force my way through it.SO, I actually did enjoy the book. I just caused myself to have a horrible experience (which was entirely my fault).
    • 3/5
      As the Hitchhikers trilogy stretched into its fourth and fifth books I felt it got a little weak and I really cannot remember the plots. Eoin has brought it back to life and it was a joy to meet the characters again after so many years. However it's not enough for them to a jolly time, there needs to be something for them to do. So the story gets underway with old minor characters playing a more major part and some new characters. True fans will probably be able to keep themselves busy spotting the difference between the two authors. One thing that I noticed is that in this story there are characters from mythology, like Thor, whereas Douglas Adams tended to create a more self-contained universe.Those real fans may not like this because, of course, nothing can really replace Douglas. However, if you're ready to forgive Eoin for not being him, then this is an enjoyable way to revisit those original characters.
    • 4/5
      Although I enjoyed this book it didn't live up to Adams' or Colfer's potential. Colfer is frequently hilarious and the story fits right in with the Hitchhiker's universe but I feel like he gets caught up trying to be Adams rather than putting his own spin on it. Regardless it's a good read and I recommend it for anyone who enjoyed the first five books.
    • 3/5
      While it was kind of nice getting some relatively happy endings for the characters, And Another Thing... mostly just felt like Hitchhiker's fan fiction. Too many references to the original books and all the characters and dialogue felt just a little off.
    • 4/5
      No, it's not Douglas Adams (although bits of it very likely are), after all, he (sadly) died in 2001. It's Eoin Colfer, doing his best to be true to Douglas Adams' style, bringing our favourite H2G2 characters back to us for another episode, trying to put a little something into the awful vacuum that Adams' death created. Was it worth buying and reading? I certainly think so. I enjoyed it, perhaps not as much as the first ones, but I liked it. For me, it'll be a keeper.Would I buy volume seven of the trilogy if Colfer wrote it? Sure. Although I think I'd like Terry Pratchett to have a go..........I'll definitely be reading all six again.
    • 2/5
      I only finally picked this up when I saw it on the new books shelf of our library and thought "what the hell" -- it can't regret reading it if I didn't pay for it. And, that pretty much held true. I even enjoyed probably the first third of the book or so. But really, I had to force myself to finish reading. It wasn't so much that the book was bad, it was just clearly an attempt to copy DNA's style without much effort to create anything new or to build on it. Overall, there were some good parts, and non of it jumped out as truly atrocious, but it certainly won't be getting a second read from me.
    • 4/5
      A few chuckles, not as good as his other work or the first two in the trilogy
    • 3/5
      The title of this book pretty much covers my opinion of it. It's a fun read, but it doesn't live up to the original series. At times, the author was trying too hard to be like Douglas Adams, and some of the Guide entries distracted from the story. But if you see this book not as a sequel to the original series, but as 'inspired by', it's a good read.
    • 1/5
      If I could give this zero stars, I would.I should grant at the outset that the avowed mission of this book is to undo the ending of Mostly Harmless, which I loved unreservedly. This was never going to be an easy sell. Still, I was willing to put that aside and see where he went from there.It's a mess. If Adams had written a sixth book in the trilogy before his untimely passing, I think it's safe to say that he would have disposed of the previous ending in a few pages flat, if he'd bothered to address it at all before getting on with the story. (He did just that in book 5, neatly ridding himself of Book 4's baggage by having Fenchurch suddenly disappear.) Coifer doesn't. Coifer spends the entire book writing his way out of the previous ending, except for a few bits meant to set up the sequels. Furthermore, everybody is out of character. Arthur, Trillian, Random, Zaphod, Ford, Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, and even the bloody Vogons. None of them act remotely like the versions Douglas Adams wrote.I'm actually looking for something nice to say about this, but I'm coming up blank. It's not even as if he has a intricate plot set up in which everything dovetails elegantly at the end, like, say, that of Mostly Harmless itself; instead, it lurches along haphazardly, like, say, the first couple of books in the series, just (a) without the charm and wit that carried those, and (b) with the burden of having a specific problem that needed to be solved, which those largely didn't have. And to compound the issue, did I mention the bit where he's clearly angling for sequels?I suppose the one good thing I can note is that the introduction does characterize this book as a lesser work with poorer production values, which one might like if one liked the original. In keeping with that, if this had to be printed at all -- which I would, of course, contest -- it should have been billed as the first book in a new trilogy of indeterminate length, rather than the "part six of three" proudly proclaimed on the cover. At least set the bad fanfic apart from the real books.
    • 3/5
      When they announced they were going to continue the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, I was ecstatic. For one thing, it's my absolute favorite series and another, the ending to "Mostly Harmless" was far to bleak for my taste. I understand not every book needs a happy ending and sometimes the ending you want isn't the ending that best fits the story (i.e Stephen King's The Dark Tower) but you can't help but feel that ending was not ultimately where Mr. Adams wanted to leave it. Somehow I thought in my mind to replicate something not quite on par with Douglas but close enough that I would thoroughly enjoy it. I knew Eion Coifer has good critical reception with his "Artemis Fowl" series so I was fairly confident in the quality of the book. What I received was disappointing. Not a bad book in the least bit, it is actually pretty well written... if it wasn't a Hitchhiker's Guide book. Every character feels slightly off base, like watching your favorite characters on a television series being played a different set of actors. I have the same feeling about the plotline although I did enjoy how EIon chose to write how they escaped the destruction of the Earth. Otherwise, the story falls pretty flat for me. One of my favorite parts of the original series was the entries in the guide the transitioned to the plotline with "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy has this to say on the subject of ...." and to see the Guide entries reduced to post-it notes really took me out of the book where the original I was utterly lost in. By far though, the most disappointing aspect of the book is that it was not nearly as funny. While reading the original there were parts where I had to actually put down the book because I was laughing so hard, while this book I believe the only part I truly laughed at was a cow jumping out and yelling "Eat me!" which I can't even recall very clearly. Overall, I do not think Eion Coifer is a bad writer but I also do not believe he was the right choice to continue the series. Personally, considering their history with Douglas, I wrote much rather have seen a collaboration between Neil Gaiman, Stephen Fry, and Richard Dawkins to finish the series. Sounds strange I know, but that's just one hoopy frood's opinion.
    • 4/5
      Captures the outer style of Douglas Adams but misses his essence. It feels like Nothing happens for most of it. The ending is reasonable and the book---I can't resist---mostly harmless. Oh, unless you're really serious about religion and then you might be very offended.