And another thing--

This book unfortunately does not live up to Douglas Adams' books. It seems Eoin Colfer tried very hard to copy the style but could only get there 80% of the way and then used vulgarity where wit gave out. I did read this after listening to the hexagonal phase audiobook thankfully. The audiobook is a much better version which at least to me seems more in line with the style of the previous books. It also more neatly ties the story up in my opinion.

I do remember liking Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl books. I appreciate him writing this book but I wish whoever helped rewrite the story for the audiobook had been there to help smooth the rough edges in the book over.

I think Colfer did a great job of taking the mantle of Douglas Adams' work, keeping much the same humor of the original, increasingly inaccurate trilogy whilst adapting it to his own writing style.

It has been decades since I last read a Hitchhiker's book, so reading this was a little rusty, but there were still plenty of recognizable references and throwbacks to earlier events and settings.

Overall, quite enjoyable and recommended to fans of the original series.

A decent take on continuing the Hitchhiker's "trilogy," but a bit too much fanservice and digression for my taste. In all likelihood it fits perfectly, and I'm just being snobby. The author manages to mimic Douglas Adams style fairly faithfully, but there are a few obvious instances where the author pokes his head in and throws things off just enough to remind you you're not dealing with the genuine article.

If you're a HHGTG fan, it's probably worth a read, if you're a purist, you're fooling yourself, and if you're not a fan, you probably won't see past the SEP field in the first place.

If you felt that the fifth book didn't hold up to the usual standards of quality, then prepare for a surprise. This sixth installment manages to be worse. It needlessly continues the story in Mostly Harmless, is entirely derivative, rehashes old jokes, and tells us more about the Vogons than anyone should ever want to hear.
My advice is to re-read the first three books instead.

This didn't spark for me. I was hoping for something better.

Eoin Colfer had quite the helm to pick up writing a sixth Hitchhikers, and he did a pretty bang-up job of it. Adams' spirit popped up here and there throughout, it was an interesting, entertaining read, with the characters we know and love tromping about the universe meeting gods and demi-gods and immortals and alternate realities and of course Vogons.



Entertaining, worth reading if you've exhausted your stock of Adams and want to frolick through that universe a bit more, and don't mind things being just a little different and less sharp. It's still quite good, and there's a lot of spark - it's a solid homage to the incomparable genius of Adams' work.



I found myself reading this in fits - it didn't hold me very well, and I took long breaks - but then again, I read the original trilogy in a similar manner anyway, so that's not much of a knock on it.

Eoin Colfer had quite the helm to pick up writing a sixth Hitchhikers, and he did a pretty bang-up job of it. Adams' spirit popped up here and there throughout, it was an interesting, entertaining read, with the characters we know and love tromping about the universe meeting gods and demi-gods and immortals and alternate realities and of course Vogons.



Entertaining, worth reading if you've exhausted your stock of Adams and want to frolick through that universe a bit more, and don't mind things being just a little different and less sharp. It's still quite good, and there's a lot of spark - it's a solid homage to the incomparable genius of Adams' work.



I found myself reading this in fits - it didn't hold me very well, and I took long breaks - but then again, I read the original trilogy in a similar manner anyway, so that's not much of a knock on it.

Eoin Colfer had quite the helm to pick up writing a sixth Hitchhikers, and he did a pretty bang-up job of it. Adams' spirit popped up here and there throughout, it was an interesting, entertaining read, with the characters we know and love tromping about the universe meeting gods and demi-gods and immortals and alternate realities and of course Vogons.



Entertaining, worth reading if you've exhausted your stock of Adams and want to frolick through that universe a bit more, and don't mind things being just a little different and less sharp. It's still quite good, and there's a lot of spark - it's a solid homage to the incomparable genius of Adams' work.



I found myself reading this in fits - it didn't hold me very well, and I took long breaks - but then again, I read the original trilogy in a similar manner anyway, so that's not much of a knock on it.

Meh. I read it out of a sense of morbid curiosity, and I have to say it wasn't an utter train wreck. I still wouldn't recommend it.

Of course it wasn't as good as the five books from the trilogy that DNA wrote, but it was good nonetheless. I especially liked the specifically demarked asides from The Guide that was in the book, though it did break the flow up a few too many times. Still, any dedicated H2G2 fan should be compelled to read it, as long as they can keep an open mind.