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New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny"

Posted by timothy on from the trying-to-meet-a-high-standard dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Oh, come on... by Abreu · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  2. Re:Oh, come on... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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