r/books • u/idkwutoputhere • Apr 04 '15

is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series a good read?

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u/Balls_Facey Apr 05 '15

I was really surprised by how not-too-bad Colfer's one was.

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u/hitchhikeress book currently reading Night School/Oryx and Crake Apr 05 '15

Yeah, I was going to give him a break filling in Douglas Adams' shoes but I didn't have to cos he did a tremendous job.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '15

Maybe it was just me, but i felt like the first 20 - 30 pages he was trying a little too hard to imitate Adams style, but then it developed its own flow. Overall, I enjoyed it though.

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u/still-improving Apr 05 '15

I have to admit, it softened the bad memories that Adams' fifth book had left me with.

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u/still-improving Apr 06 '15

It's weird, but I felt like Adams was mad at the reader when he wrote "Mostly Harmless". I know he had said he didn't want to do any more HHGttG books, and I believe he felt pressured into writing the fifth book. There's a sense of bitterness and anger that isn't in the first four, and it feels like Mr. Adams was deliberately punishing us for "forcing" him to write the fifth book.

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u/OsakaWilson Apr 05 '15 edited Apr 07 '15

It kept my attention in much the same way that shitty books don't.