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New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny"
daria42 writes "An early review of part of the Eoin Colfer-penned sequel to Douglas Adams's Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy series has panned the book as not being very funny. If you read Hitchhiker to have a good laugh, maybe you're going to be disappointed," wrote Nicolas Botti, on his Douglas Adams fan site earlier this month."
I always found spinach in food overrated. A few tasty bits in any dish is fine, but to eat an entire dish that was suppose to be spinach. I dunno I can't see myself enjoying it that much. Even if the spinach was quality and well prepared.
On the plus side, Eoin Colfer has won the Ambiguously Pronounced Name Award!
Tell me about it, I hate when I read a really good book that keeps me entertained for hours.
You didn't read Discworld, then? Is not that the entire books means to be funny, but have a lot of good laughs, and that in a story interesting enough that have a bit of everything. When i have to classify the secondary genre of those books, i doubt between fantasy, terror, sci-fi, philosophy and others, but the first one is humor definately.
Hey mister can I have one of those sausages? Oh I mean Bark Bark.
Mostly Humorless.
I expect that there may be a few people in the world better at telling a consistent and coherent story than George Lucas.
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I have...which leaves me even more baffled. That was comedy?
so long and thanks for all the fiction.
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And had he said Carrot Top was who authored them, you'd have said "It makes sense. It was cheesy and retarded all in the same breath"
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Except that isn't what this is. What it is, is a link to a story which links to a review.
It's 2 orders of stupidity away from actually reviewing a book - if you spoke to a friend of yours, and they said "Oh yeah, I know this guy who knows this other guy who's read the book and he totally says it's boring and stuff", you'd laugh at them and possibly break their ankles for wasting your time.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
the best spinach i ever ate turned out be be fennel...
The Hitchhiker's Guide was meant to be funny? No one told me that all those decades ago. I read it like any good student - as if it were a history book!!
Next thing, you'll be telling me that L. Ron Hubbard made up his religion.
Man, you slashdotters have a lot of nerve......
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I am a book, "Contractual Obligation to end 5 book trilogy", Mark 2. I have been activated. I will explode into outlet bookstores and recycling programs in 7 days. 6 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 45 seconds. 6 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, 30 seconds. 6 days...
"Oh, Dear." uttered the ghost of Douglas. The ghosts of the other authors twittered behind him. "We told you this would happen" spat Tolkien, who had assumed a rather ungainly set of almost holographic elven ears...
Apparently this was funny too. I'm so confused...
Maybe my funny bone is broken
As a writer I know.........no matter how good someone try's
I sense that you may be enhancing your truthiness a tad.
Eoin is a perfectly standard spelling in Gaelic, we tend to use too many vowels, a friend of mine, Aoife (pronounced eefa) has great fun in other English speaking countries. Now try Aodhan, ;)
How about you quit hogging all those vowels and share some with those poor Welsh?
Warning: The parent message contains spoilers, and shouldn't have been read by those who don't want to know how the last book ends.
Spaceman Spiff was indeed one of the greatest minds of our time... Of course...that really just shows how sad and pathetic the minds of our time have been.