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And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three Free FREE AND ANOTHER THING: DOUGLAS ADAMS HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: PART SIX OF THREE PDF Eoin Colfer | 368 pages | 04 Nov 2009 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780718155155 | English | London, United Kingdom And Another Thing (novel) - Wikipedia Added by 22 of our members. And Another Thing 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 Galaxyhas 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 blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released, and colorfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. And of course Arthur Dent has And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three failed to grasp the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Arthur has finally made it home to Earth, but that does not mean he has escaped his fate. Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa have evaporated rapidly, along with all the world's oceans. For no sooner has he touched down on the planet Earth than he finds out that it is about to be blown up. And Another Thing. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese. Genre: Science Fiction. Alien Sex Ellen Datlow. Westworld Michael Crichton. Title: And Another Thing Please email webmaster fantasticfiction. And Another Thing Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Six of Three T he Hitchhiker phenomenon has always, I suspect, been personal and subjective, not global. Depending on how you came to it — books, radio series, film — its legions of fans have always taken from it something slightly different. I always thought all the things that were meant to be "funny" — the towels and don't panic posters, the people who this weekend will wear dressing-gowns at a convention — were rubbish. The recent film didn't get the jokes at all, and even the TV series failed the instant it tried to transfer a written gag — Zaphod's second And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three — to the screen. No, the joy was in reading and rereading Adams's prose: the sly delight in word- and plot-play, the perfect ear, the serendipity of onomatopoeia in the English language and the careful fusion of apparently randomly loopy scenarios with insight and a Point. Thus, when this comes along, the first book since Adams's untimely death inboth excitement and trepidation are felt. Eoin Colferauthor of the hugely popular teen Artemis Fowl series, has been sanctioned in the project by Adams's widow, and there has been great expectation, but also a great many people going, quietly, good Lord, it would be so easy for him to get it wrong — one hint of a tin ear, one echo of a cracked bell and it's doomed. Within pages, it's clear this is a triumph. Colfer has pulled off the near-impossible. It's faithful to Adams's humour and, more important, it's also got his rhythm, the cadences and the footfalls that made his style so often badly imitated. But Colfer doesn't shy from introducing his own brand of wit, his own complex logic confettis. It's the work of an author who can write anyway, with a beautiful, vaulting imagination, and who obviously loves Adams's style so much he can echo it without falsity or accidental parody. There is not a lazy sentence. It is also, as it were, updated. It would have been wilful of Colfer not to acknowledge the changes that have taken place in our, the allegedly real, world since Adams's first book was published 30 years ago — the internet and, in general, our far greater sophistication with computers — so he's unafraid to bandy about talk of downstreaming and uploading. There's not much, this time round, of Arthur And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three. This is perhaps inevitable, in that Arthur was, basically, in his mild grumpiness and faint air of confusion, Adams himself. There's a welcome return for Arthur's daughter, Random, who's busy raising teenage truculence to new levels and, what's more, getting to do so on a bewildering new array of planets. It's picky to say the plot makes no sense. It makes as much sense as any plot would which involved the likes of warring gods, three or four alternative earths, a corrupt joke-Irish property developer, a complex battle involving a cheese-based deity and a young Vogon damned by the possession of aesthetic sense and, worse, a conscience. If there's any downside to this mainly fabulous first effort, it's that there's just too much of it. The real Adams books were increasingly short, I And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three. So Long and Thanks for All the Fishfor instance was, I seem to remember, of such staggering slimness that you had to quickly read it three times in succession — not a problem — to get your money's worth. Here, for all its fitful brilliance, there's simply too much, even of the fitful brilliance. It's too long, the "Guide" footnotes are too comprehensive, the "further reading" gags too frequent. But these quibbles were a struggle to find and even the sainted Adams wasn't above the occasional infuriatingly indulgent longueur, such as basing the whole of his least good book on an extended metaphor involving cricket. Colfer has given us a delight, and an eye-opener, and hope, and, close as this book does on the line "The end of one of the middles", the near- promise of more to come. Topics Fiction The Observer. Douglas Adams Eoin Colfer reviews. Reuse this content. Most popular. And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — And Another Thing And Another Thing 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 blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released, and colorfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. And of course Arthur Dent has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Arthur has finally And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three it home to Earth, but that does not mean And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three has escaped his fate. Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa have evaporated rapidly, along with all the world's oceans. For no sooner has he touched down on the planet Earth than he finds out that it is about to be blown up It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 6. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about And Another Thing Lo No. I thought books had already lost the charm of the first one, but Colfer's imitation was just down-right cheap. Is this canon to the others? Or just a more professional Fan-fiction? Wesley James In my opinion, it's just a more professional fan-fiction, although Colfer did get permission from Adam's family, and used notes i think? And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three, it doesn't stay true to the style, and Colfer adds way too much of his own touch, so I would say it's definitaly more of a fan-fiction than an actual part of the canon. See all 4 questions about And Another Thing Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of And Another Thing Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 6. Things looked bleak in the last episode of our witty space saga, the Earth was to be no more, again, annihilated by bloodthirsty, heartless, repulsive aliens no not the Vogons, they come laterbut have faith ladies and gentlemen, that our intrepid gang, somehow, will survive this catastrophe Saved by an unlikely combination of renegade And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three Galactic President, Zaphod Beeblebrox never saw a buck he didn't likewho has lost his head, but not to worry, still has another and t Things looked bleak in the last episode of our witty space saga, the Earth was to be no more, again, annihilated by bloodthirsty, heartless, repulsive aliens no not the Vogons, they come laterbut have faith ladies and gentlemen, that our intrepid gang, somehow, will survive this catastrophe Saved by an unlikely combination of renegade former Galactic President, Zaphod Beeblebrox never saw a buck he didn't likewho has lost his head, but not to And Another Thing: Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three, still has another and the giant green immortal creature Wowbagger, the being that for countless centuries has gone around the galaxy, alone in his powerful vessel, his goal insulting everyone alive, a hobby that keeps him happily active, yet some strange humanoids and near ones, are enjoying the dubious honor Death rays around their spaceship inside Arthur Dent, Trillian, Random Dent their irritating daughter, Ford Prefect, Wowbagger, and Beeblebrox, look on with just a little touch of concernspraying lethal destruction, but in the nick of time avoid them and streak into the depths of the Universe, doesn't "dark matter" where.
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