Bill H. (simonsaysrebel) reviewed on 11/20/2009 + 7 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 6

This book falls flat. I will not say life was perfect in the HHGG, but I enjoy reading them, over and over. This, I didn't like reading even once. Oh, I finished it. It was not charming. That's the best thing about even the dark Mostly Harmless. I think I got one small laugh out of Colfer's work. I don't hate it. I just don't count it as one of the books in the set. Like a stranger cannot be an enemy or a friend, this is not hate-able. It is not lovable. It is Colfer's book with identically-named characters who are I guess vaguely familiar in a setting one might call the same universe. I don't. I'd like to see other writers start from the same leaping-off point, the ending of earth from Mostly Harmless, much like the multiverse concept of several earths. I'd like to see the insanity of all these different earths and Arthurs and Co. trying to survive the Grebulons with different authorial homages. Perhaps the inimitable but clearly witty Jasper Fforde? I wonder if Neil Gaiman would take a crack at it? Or even someone like Neal Stephenson? Someone who has FUN with writing, not makes fun of it. This was a D- in my gradebook. Not a fan. I miss Adams. The lightest-hearted atheist I ever read.

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