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Post by jarddavis on Sept 18, 2008 6:37:20 GMT -8
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Post by jensaltmann on Sept 18, 2008 6:52:24 GMT -8
From where I sit, it's a monumentally stupid idea. There can be no Hitchhiker's Guide without Adams. It was made by his unique style. (I know someone who met him once, and who told me that Adams actually talked the way he wrote.)
A Hitchhiker's sequel not written by Adams is made of complete fail.
But then, so long as nobody is forcing me at gunpoint to buy and/or read this, I don't see the harm.
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Post by Mario Di Giacomo on Sept 18, 2008 7:52:09 GMT -8
I can think of a small handful of writers who could possibly take on the task... Colfer isn't one of them. Don't get me wrong, he writes well, but he's the entirely wrong style.
(Terry Jones, OTOH...)
I'm just counting my blessings that they didn't get Kevin J. Anderson....
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Post by jarddavis on Sept 18, 2008 8:14:13 GMT -8
No one can do another Hitchhiker's book. Period. Rob Grant and Doug Naylor... maybe. They have the funny.
But the philosophy?
THAT's where this will fail.
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Post by jensaltmann on Sept 18, 2008 8:23:59 GMT -8
My sentiments exactly.
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Post by K-Box on Sept 18, 2008 11:44:01 GMT -8
... You gotta be shittin' me.
The only way this could get worse is if they hired Alan Dean Foster to do it.
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Post by temporis on Sept 18, 2008 17:34:51 GMT -8
Hell, Adams himself wasn't at his best with Books 4 and 5. I prefer to forget anything after, really, the second book.
The third was decent enough, but read less like a HHG book than the rejected Who plot which it began life as.
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Post by jbhelfrich on Sept 25, 2008 15:15:30 GMT -8
The fourth was my favorite; the fifth not so much, though they did put that to rights with the end of the radio adaptation of the fifth book.
I don't know this guys' work, so I won't comment on if I think it will be any good. But I certainly would have put names like Jones, Gilliam, Pratchett and Gaiman ahead of his.
Damn. Now I want a collection of short stories written in the HH universe by those guys.
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Post by temporis on Sept 25, 2008 22:06:46 GMT -8
Gaiman would definitely do it; one of the first things he wrote was a very respectful biography of Adams 'Don't Panic'. I think it even predates his comics work.
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Post by Anders on Sept 26, 2008 0:51:02 GMT -8
Robert Rankin could pull it off. His more surreal books read a bit like Adams based in conspiracy theories instead of science fiction.
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Post by jarddavis on Sept 26, 2008 6:24:31 GMT -8
Hell, Adams himself wasn't at his best with Books 4 and 5. I prefer to forget anything after, really, the second book. Ironically, the 4th book is my favorite of the entire series. It kind of harkened back to days when the series was originally performed on radio and Arthur wasn't a complete dimbulb and saved the day all the time. Plus, you know, Ford acting comletely maniacal throughout the book, and, you know, sigh, Fenchurch.... |
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Post by jbhelfrich on Sept 26, 2008 9:09:29 GMT -8
Jard, have you heard the end of the radio play they did of MH?
Attempt at spoiler text: (Kirk, I had to manually change the color selection to color=F6F6F6 after posting the comment to make it completely invisible. The post blocks seem to alternate between color F6F6F6 and EFEFEF, which might make setting up spoiler functionality difficult)
They attempted to put a cap on the series, since the 4th and 5th stages were done after Douglas had died. They get to the point where the Earth blows up again, but then they go back and talk about alternate universes, picking up on that theme in the book. They do some humorous examination of points at which the story could have branched (and did branch in other media) but they end up with all the people who died in the explosion of Earth spontaneously appearing at Milliways, for no good reason. Trillian and !Trillian have merged, to some confusion (mostly hers). Arthur and !Trillian's daughter is there, adapting. Zaphod gets a call from Marvin, who's down parking cars. ("Marvin, I thought you were dead!" "It seems I was still under warranty. Pity.") And...Fenchurch is there, waiting tables. After a simultaneous "Where did you go? I looked every where!" Arthur asks what she's doing there, to which she replies "I knew you'd turn up here eventually." The story then ends on a massively sappy note, that none the less manages to cheer me up every time I hear it.
There we go.
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Post by jarddavis on Oct 9, 2008 14:54:10 GMT -8
I have not heard the new fits, no. I desperately want to.
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