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[altariel]

Eoin Colfer joins campaign to stop him writing Hitchhiker sequel.

What I really like about this story is that partway through, he realized he was making a terrible terrible mistake, and then pulled it back to make the interwebz work for him. Good man. Still not likely to read it, though.

Comments

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I listened to the first episode back on its spiritual home, R4 - they're serialising it as the Book at Bedtime this week. Sadly I forgot to turn on right at the beginning, so missed the iconic twang-a-twang-TWANNNNNG theme tune...

He caught most of the characters fairly well, but I felt that Hitchhiker had more than run its course as an idea even while DA was still doing it, and I can't say I'm madly grabbed by the reboot. Besides, the Guide is now an annoying virtual-reality bird thing, which is frankly never going to be a patch on the late lamented Peter Jones.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

If I've left the above comment twice, apologies. It didn't show up immediately so I thought I'd only hit Preview and not Submit - now LJ says there are two comments to the thread but it's only there once. Weirdness going on. (that's what I get for dissing Douglas Adams, even indirectly...)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Beware of the Leopard.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Any good?

ETA: ignore that, because your first comment - the one I replied to - seemed only to have the first paragraph on it... and you totally answered my question! Weird stuff is happening on LJ...

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Weird stuff is happening on LJ...

Infinitely Improbable, and therefore like all million-to-one chances will turn up nine times out of ten ;-)

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Yes, good for him. I also have absolutely no plans whatsoever to read it.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D

[temeres.livejournal.com]

I've heard the first three parts of the Book at Bedtime adaptation whilst at work, and I can't say I'm impressed. It seems to be little more than a suppurating globule of the worst indulgences of fanwank.

Though it still somehow manages to be a pleasant change from the usual turgid B@B fare.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

a suppurating globule of the worst indulgences of fanwank

I'm sold! Seriously, though, I didn't much like the last couple of HH books, so I'm not running out to get this one. I don't want the first ones spoiled further for me.

[temeres.livejournal.com]

I didn't read the penultimate one, and I didn't even know until earlier this week that the last one even existed. Maybe ignorance can be bliss after all.

[mylefteye.livejournal.com]

I don't really get the antipathy towards Colfer. If people want to read the new H2G2, they should do so with an open mind. If they don't then they should just shut up. Let's face it, DNA wrote some pretty crap books. The Dirk Gently novels weren't particularly good, and Mostly Harmless was a huge let down. I'll be getting Eoin Colfer's from the library.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

He did write some pretty bad books. I really like the Dirk Gently ones, although I haven't read them since I was a student, and my tastes might have changed since then. You felt his relief at not writing Hitch-Hikers any more, at trying something new. I gather he didn't much like being a writer. I suspect we would have seen a lot more documentaries from him.