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The author missed the point. The guide was supposed to occasionally pop up with interesting background information. Instead it dominates the story and actually makes comments about what the characters are saying.

For example, in one section it went like this:

* Character: ...just like the alien race X.
* Guide: Well actually alien race X wasn't like that.
* Character: Further, this is why I'm write.
* Guide: That's a lie.

The author doesn't understand the difference between the Guide and a snarky, all-knowing narrator.

Another example of this is when the Guide has a bunch of background information on A. Dent and all of the various ways he died across all of the various realities. How is that even possible? The Guide isn't a god and no Guide researcher would have wasted time and effort researching this one person of no importance.


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And Another Thing The Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy Eoin Colfer Books Reviews

I have read worse books; or more to the point have put down poorly written tomes half read due to boredom or annoyance. I wanted to like this effort, really I did. Sadly it did not have the pacing or gleeful wanton abandon of the original trilogy. I can not be the only one who felt all the guide entries and footnotes contained in this effort were distracting from whatever the story was supposed to be about in the first place. And if you are going to make Wowbagger a primary character but not have him interact with Marvin (a Marvinless HHGTTG book, sacrilege).

It almost felt like I was watching a favorite movie but all the actors had been replaced by understudies. There were several points during which I would flip forward to find out how many more pages before the end of a boring chapter. I never did that on the originals; and not only cause most of the chapters were about a page and a half long; Douglas knew how to keep the pace going and if he did wander down an odd path, the payoff at the end would usually be worth it.

So this book gets 2 MEHS and let us all hope there are no more attempts to bring this series back from the afterlife.
I didn't enjoy this book. Here are my reasons

1. All of the characters act and speak completely differently than in any previous book
2. All of the characters' personalities are taken to their most dire extreme Zaphod 107% narcissist, Trillian 110% emotional, Arthur 123% insecure, Random 400% raging hormone teenager, etc.
3. The two items above make all the characters so unlikable that you aren't invested in any of them; indeed it only causes you to miss the old characters they should have been
4. The writing is clunky, especially character dialog, and it makes you lose interest and skim over sections; there are also tons of nonsensical and non-sequitur asides that drag down the storytelling
5. The nonsense is also taken to the dire extreme and whole paragraphs are comprised of made-up nonsense words that are so nonsense-y, long, and hard to pronounce that some sections are easier to skip than read

I don't believe that there is no one who could carry on the legacy of Douglas Adams. I don't believe that other writers couldn't carry on the vibe he started. But this author either can't or at least didn't. He tries far too hard and the humor loses its edge. It doesn't seem effortless like Adams made it seem.

I am not sure I am explaining myself as accurately as I intended. Perhaps my true feelings could best be summed up by the following example...

Close your eyes and imagine you are in the audience of a comedy club. A stand-up comedian comes on stage and does the following bit

--------------SCENE------------------

"I bought..."

------------PAUSE SCENE--------------

Actually you're going to want to open your eyes again or you won't be able to read the bit properly. Have them open now? Of course you must or you couldn't read this. Okay, so with your eyes open, imagine in your mind that you are in the audience of a comedy club. There's a pretty large crowd and each person has had one too many Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters, so they're primed for whatever comes next. A stand-up comedian enters the stage. He looks interesting but understated. He walks up to the microphone does this bit

----------RESTART SCENE--------------

"I bought some batteries but they weren't included."

(Pauses to wait for moderate laughter from the audience)

"So I had to buy them again."

(Raucous laughter at the one-two punch)

------------END SCENE----------------

That's a good comedian! Tells an off-beat joke with timing and grace. Doesn't over-explain it. Let's the audience catch the humor by themselves! That's Douglas Adams!

Now here is the same scene done Eoin Colfer style. Again, imagine yourself in the audience at a comedy club, rife with anticipation at the chance to see a master of the craft. Suddenly a stand-up comedian walks onto the stage. He is wearing green comic oversize sunglasses, a pair of rainbow-colored suspenders, and one of those headbands that has googly eyes on them at the end of boing-y springs. He walks right up to the microphone and says "wokka, wokka." Then he does this bit

--------------SCENE------------------

"I bought some batteries but they weren't included."

(Mild laughter from the audience, wondering what to expect)

"You see, the reason why that is funny is because there are an awfully lot of items in the universe that require batteries but don't come packaged with them. In fact, you may find it interesting that in a galaxy called Fartblattjanschteinhoffen there is a planet named Tootstinkleriffic V which has indigenous creatures that the locals call zagblarts. They look like little green-blue worms, but they require batteries to live. They don't call them batteries, they call them yarmiframbutts, but they are basically the same things as AAA batteries. But zagblarts aren't born with yarmiframbutts, and being new-born babies they have no capacity to find any, so all zagblarts only live for exactly four seconds. Fortunately, zagblarts are asexual and it only takes them three seconds to reproduce, so each zagblart births another right before it dies, which miraculously keeps the race from committing accidental self-genocide. The only other species which frooms anything yankier than zagblarts are the proomkins of yerkmeoff VII which are so groompy that they hupfrent when grimping their yamifrazzles that they actually quimpelate harpicon zoomibate sherjiacnnaenobllehael quite frequently."

(Half the audience is asleep, the other half looks like confused emojis)

"In any case, because of this unfortunate fact, I had to buy the batteries again. Guide Note The word miraculously as used above would better be interpreted as the Betelgeusian word Shujlachitara because the word miraculously implies a deity and of course the zagblarts only believe in demi-gods and not full gods at all."

(The other half of the audience goes to sleep)

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Bottom Line
Douglas Adams = I can't put the book down!
Eoin Colfer = Get on with the zarking story already!

If you've managed to make it to the end of this scathing review (or simply skipped here), my advice is to immediately go read this book. Set your expectations accordingly and perhaps it will be a more pleasant experience than if you had no expectations at all, or especially if you had hopeful expectations with nothing to base them on. But it's not like a negative review is going to stop you from reading it. You've read five previous books in the series, it would be ridiculous to stop now. Besides, no matter what happens in this book it has to be less depressing than ending the Hitchhiker's story with Mostly Harmless for Zarquon's sake!
This feels like a must read for me, to get some closure after the death of Douglas Adams and the seeming demise of his clever band of characters. Though I enjoyed some furtherance of the characters, I was not nearly as compelled to delve into the book, flipping page after page as I was when I read the ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The new format of 'guide notes' rather than random run on sentences like the original, broke up the story a bit to me, and seemed to take me out of it. Colfer did an outstanding job, though, of mirroring Adam's quirky style and dry satirical comedy, but he didn't explore much new territory which each previous book had. The story was full of great references to the former books and the universe it had built, but he didn't add anything new to that universe. But that may have been intentional as a show of respect for his great predecessor, so I can't really knock it for that. I was a bit disappointed that Arthur and Ford were not nearly as prominent of characters in this story. With all that said, the last act of the story brings things together and gives satisfying-ish endings in the very froody hitchhiker's style. All in all, I view this book as a must read for Guide fans for its loyal nods to the original as well as a wrap up that it seems Adam's may have gotten around to if it wasn't for his untimely demise. You will enjoy, but at your own peril!
The author missed the point. The guide was supposed to occasionally pop up with interesting background information. Instead it dominates the story and actually makes comments about what the characters are saying.

For example, in one section it went like this

* Character ...just like the alien race X.
* Guide Well actually alien race X wasn't like that.
* Character Further, this is why I'm write.
* Guide That's a lie.

The author doesn't understand the difference between the Guide and a snarky, all-knowing narrator.

Another example of this is when the Guide has a bunch of background information on A. Dent and all of the various ways he died across all of the various realities. How is that even possible? The Guide isn't a god and no Guide researcher would have wasted time and effort researching this one person of no importance.