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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."
However, all the major changes in the movie script were penned by Adams himself.
The radio, book and movie versions of HHGTTG were all supposed to be different in their own way.
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Hey, just because *you're* not as good as Jimi Hendrix or Picasso doesn't mean that there is NOBODY in a planet with approx 6 Billion people that could make music in the same style as Jimi Hendrix, and do a good job of it. Or paint in a similar style to Picasso and be brilliant at it.
The difference here is that, with music, there's no point is calling your album the "next Jimi Hendrix" album (unless you just want to be ridiculed by people), because music is essentially stand-alone. With fiction, you can certainly go write you own completely original (well, ok, there's no such thing as a *completely original* work of fiction, but you know what I mean), but that doesn't mean other people can't write perfectly good stories using your character and setting. I hear there are some pretty good Star Wars books that weren't written by George Lucas. I also hear there are some good Star Trek books which weren't written by Gene Roddenberry. Go to any bookstore, and you will find a whole shelf full of Forgotten Realms books, by a cadre of different authors, and they seems to be, for the most part, well received by fans of Forgotten Realms.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but I also remember Adams saying that he never thought the HHGTTG could really work in anything but print. And because of a lack of trying on his part either. Just that whenever he worked at trying to make the whole idea behind HHGTTG in another medium even he thought it was lacking.
The problem with this theory is that HHGTTG didn't start its life in print. It was originally a radio play. And he was more than happy to try it out in other media formats.
This guy's the limit!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I specifically remember excerpts from the book being presented in the movie. Didn't they have a voice over by Stephen Fry?
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It would need to be 44 because the middle finger is in the same position on both hands.
The radio series predated the books. TMYK....
> You're aware of the fact the BBC series predated the books?
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Well maybe in your universe
Bark less. Wag more.
The first series (aka. The Primary Phase) was first, followed shortly after by the first book. Both The second series (The Secondary Phase) and and the second book were released in 1980, though I think the radio series predated by the book by a few months. The subsequent series from the Tertiary through Quintessential phases weren't recorded from 2003 onwards, well after books 3 to 5.
Personally, I like the radio series and the TV series better than the books. Though, I really hate the 2005 film, I saw it once when it came out and I never want to see it again.
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