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  • And Another Thing...

  • Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three
  • By: Eoin Colfer
  • Narrated by: Simon Jones
  • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (907 ratings)
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And Another Thing...

By: Eoin Colfer
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And Another Thing: Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is written by Eoin Colfer and is Part Six of this best-selling sci-fi fantasy audiobook series narrated by captivating English actor Simon Jones. The woes of Arthur Dent continue as he endures his impossible search for a cup of tea. He’s tossed back and forth through space with only a terribly depressed alien for company. Dent’s wild adventures are coupled with an unending search for the meaning of life off Earth as the planet he longs for is destroyed, then replaced, then destroyed again. Available now from Audible.

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And Another Thing...will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy

An Englishman's continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea . . . Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incident. Arthur has travelled the length, breadth and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forwards and backwards through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released and colourfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. And, of course, he has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

Arthur has, though, finally made it home to Earth. But that does not mean he has escaped his fate. For Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa are evaporating along with the world's oceans. Because no sooner has he arrived than he finds out that Earth is about to be blown up...again.

And Another Thing...by Eoin Colfer is the rather unexpected, but very welcome, sixth instalment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favourite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer and at least one very large slab of cheese.

©2009 Eoin Colfer (P)2009 Penguin Audio

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A poor attempt to follow on the series

The story line is hap hazard, the author has lost the plot. Poor overall experience.

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brilliant

once u get over the fact that it's not Douglas Adams & the narrator is not Martin Freeman. it's actually brilliant. great story, logical, & somehow manages to stay true to the characters & style of Douglas Adams. pretty amazing.

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Mediocre with a big of Adams flair.

This book is written by Eoin Colfer in the style of Douglas Adams. The story is somewhat repetitive, interrupted by constant side-notes which are rarely entertaining or important, but it manages to tell a lighthearted end to the story of the Dents, Ford, and Zeefod.

However, when we consider this against the earlier books it is a mediocre story with no real HGTTG flair for storytelling. Much of the book feels like the writer read the first HGTTG and reviews of the later books and told a story without regard for much of "The middle".

all in all it is a decent book read expertly by the narrator, so do give it a try.

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Amazing!

I truly am a die hard Douglas fan and although this book was technically written be Eoin Colfer you can rarely tell the difference. The off beat humour and eccentric characters are the same as ever and actually made me laugh out loud often such as I have come to expect from this series, it really is a fantastic addition to the trilogy.

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Great

Being a fan of the previous books the final book dose a impressive job of creating the same hitchhikers universe that we all love :)

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It's good but it's not right!

Could anyone have written a HGTTG book?

Not really but Eoin Colfer has had a damn good stab and parts of it are pure Douglas Adams.

The crowning glory of this production though is Simon Jones - just hearing Arthur Dent again brings this to life.

The narrative is a little long winded and the plot is sometimes difficult to follow. If you're new to the HGTTG then this is not the place to start.

If you're a fan then you need to listen to it.

Would love to hear it dramatised by the BBC

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Douglas Adams would love it!

If you loved "Hitchhikers" and mourned the passing of Douglas Adams, you will be pleasantly surprised by this book. Narrated by the voice familiar from the Radio series, it takes our heroes to new and different adventures. If you miss Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect et al, it really does take over where the previous book left off. Eoin Colfer has caught the quirky sense of humour from the original series. I enjoyed it immensely and I think you will too.

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You need to be a fan already

Eoin Colfer has captured the feel of the original hitchhiker books perfectly. It was great to hear it narrated by Peter Jones, really took me back. Douglas Adams fans should love it but I suspect if would be fairly meaningless for anyone coming to hitchhiker for the first time.

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Pants

A truly terrible story. FAIL. As a devoted HHGTTG fans and avid re-reader of all the Adams books I was hoping against hope that this book would tie up the loose ends and entertain. I really wanted to like this book.

One of the features of Adam's HHGTTG books was the long-form descriptions of things. Inserted from time to time they were often quirky but always entertained. This book seemed to have nothing but long winded diversions into explanatory pieces.

There's a good chance that if you took out these pieces the books would be about half the size it actually it. And don't get me started on the footnotes.

This was, sadly, a very boring book and one of the few Audible books I have regretted buying. It's not Audible's fault. It's just a very boring book.

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the end went further than the origional

the end went differently which was good and also took some of the jokes further👍

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