And Another Thing . . .

And Another Thing . . . is another novel that has been picked up to be completed by a new author after the original had died. Sadly, it is not quite as successful a venture as was The Gathering Storm. Eoin Colfer, author of the young adult series, Artemis Fowl, was chosen to write book six of the Hitchikers Trilogy(yes you read that right) by Douglas Adams. The book is fairly humorous and generally the story his good enough I suppose, overall it is a more then adequate book. The problem is Douglas Adams is one of those authors whose books and humor are entirely his own, the books are less about their stories then about the unique and uncanny ability Adams had to make us laugh. Colfer does an admiral job, but I think this series, which did not really need another book, may have been better off left alone.

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