Categories: just-life
Date: 30 March 2010 12:40:07
A trilogy in six parts is the best way the describe the enormously popular series "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", assuming of course that you are willing to accept the new, post Adams novel "And Another Thing"*. Having now read the book I've decided that I am going to stick to the original five books.
The main problem I had with this new book is that Eoin Colfer has tried far to hard. In an attempt to make it as Hitchhiker as possible he's attempted to include as many old charactors as possible. Not only Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Zaphod, but Random (Arthur's daughter), the Vogans (still trying to destroy Earth and all Earthlings), Thor (Norse God), Wowbagger The Infinately Prolonged (the chap who was trying to insult everyone in the universe in alphabetical order), Tricia McMillan (an alternative version of Trillian from Mostly Harmless), Fenchurch (Arthur's love, lost in hyperspace in So Long And Thanks For All The Fish) and the Heart of Gold... indeed I was almost surprised when Marvin the Paraniod Android failed to appear.
Indeed, as with the fourth Indianna Jones film, if you can live without this extra edition do so and be happy with the far superior originals. Hitchhikers is, in my mind, still a Trilogy in Five parts.
* - or, as I thought it was called when I went to library to ask for it "And Something Else"... which wouldn't have helped the libarian to find it, especially as I couldn't remember the new author... lucky I spotted it on the shelf first. All credit to the libarian though, she immediately recognised the title as being "Douglas Adams-esq".