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pbray ([personal profile] pbray) wrote2008-09-17 09:31 am
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A tough act to follow

From the BBC website this morning: Children's author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.

Sorry, but no. That's one book that's not being added to my TBR pile.
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[identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, God, especially not by Eoin Colfer. I read a couple (or one) of the Artemis Fowl books, and...no. The parts where the kid was acting like a kid were fine, but when he was being SuperGenius it just didn't work for me. So agh. I mean, if it was Terry Pratchett, maybe....

[identity profile] sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
See, I haven't even got that far, because I was so turned off when I discovered that Artemis Fowl was a boy, when Artemis is clearly a girl's name. Not that I'm hideously shallow, or anything.

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The series came highly recommended, but I couldn't even get through the first Artemis Fowl book. So yeah, ditto.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'd much rather have Pratchett concentrate on Pratchett books, for whatever output he may still have in him.

[identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. I was just thinking that if anybody could perhaps mimic Adams' style, it'd be Pratchett.

[identity profile] pbray.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Pratchett is likely the closest in sensibility to Adams, but for that very reason he's likely far too wise to consider such a project.
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