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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 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, um, no.

Nothing against Mr Colfer personally, but ... no.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't think I've read anything by Colfer, but . . .

(Amazing, the mischance that the prospect of large sums of money will cause.)
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[personal profile] lagilman 2008-09-17 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
some literary universes should just Not Become Franchises. Really. When we talk about an author's sensibility, or their voice, we're not discussing a mimic-able affectation, usually.

A spinoff, I might hold my nose and say 'whatever, if that's your cuppa.' But a sixth installment of the series? Just...no.

[identity profile] princejvstin.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Will I read it?

Ummm. No. Just no.

[identity profile] chichiri-no-da.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...whut. I don't care if he's the reincarnation of Douglas Adams. I'm definitely not interested.

[identity profile] antonstrout.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
If you explode me head like that, I cain't write anymore of my own books, dammit!

I can't believe how bad an idea this sounds like...

[identity profile] libwitch.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I like Eoin Colfer, and I may read it just to see what it is like. Maybe it will deal with....um...I have no idea since the book ended with all the main characters blowing up.

Um. Ok, I will read it just to see what type of train wreck it is. But I will find a way to get my hands on it for free, so I am not actually giving money to such a bad idea.

[identity profile] karenthology.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just going to pretend that book doesn't exist.

[identity profile] oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Douglas Adams will claw his way out of his grave to prevent this abomination, screaming, "I tried to stop after THREE, you bastards!" or some such.

I do recall reading that he had a lot of trouble with later books in the series and wanted to stop... maybe it was after number four. Either way, some things need to remain ended.

[identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com 2008-09-17 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
He originally intended to stop with Life, the Universe, and Everything, but I think he came up with So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish on his own, and that's where the real trap came. I really felt his heart wasn't in it after that.

Considering what that,(voice drops to a whisper) "movie" (talking in a normal voice again) did to Marvin, I shudder to think what someone else would do let loose in the Hitchhiker's Universe.

I suspect the whole plan was come up with by the editors of the Encyclopaedia Galactica.

[identity profile] jjschwabach.livejournal.com 2008-09-18 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps that's it!

See, the thing is, just because she's his widow, it doesn't exclude the Galactica or Sirius connections....
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