And Another Thing...the sixth book of the trilogy

What a bunch of Fanboys!
I really enjoyed it, ok, so it wasn't Adams at his best, mostly because the man is dead, Colfer did an otherwise grand job of picking up where Mostly Harmless left off.
Not sure what people really wanted, reminds me of the fanboy losers wailing about the movie and how it was so different to their beloved radio/tv/book version of the tale, despite there being no definitive version of the story, just reiterations to suit the media.

Here, in And Another Thing, we have a fine attempt to continue the tales of out intrepid heroes and I really enjoyed every bit of it, especially Zaphod heading to Asgard, great fun.
Sure the story wasn't on the same level of genius as the first, well, three books anyway, but then it isn't Douglas, but it is the next thing.

So don't such an Ix, be more a laid back hoopy frood, surely the last thing people should be doing in getting precious about Hitchhiker, be more of a Ford and less of an Arthur!

I think the only thing I possibly accused anyone of was being a fanboy, I didn't use any other language at all.
I was "reminded" of people who hated the movie, but didn't accuse any of the posters here of being "losers" at all.
If you want me to withdraw those comments then fine, consider it done.

That said, people do have a habit of getting incredibly possessive of their favourite book, and I understand, I have read Hitchhiker since it was published many times, I have the tv series, I have the radio series all the way up to the most recent Quintessential Phase, so I have just as good a set of credentials as anyone else here to have an opinion on this.

You see, Douglas himself had a problem with people always wanting some fixed, best version of Ford and Arthurs travels, but there isn't one, for some it's the books, for some it's the radio, some the TV and, I'm sure, there are people who loved the movie.

Now with And Another Thing we have a new take, if Colfer had stuck slavishly to Adams' style of prose people would be quick to criticise it, so instead we have a Hitchhiker book, with the familiar characters in a story told through the prism of Colfers imagination, now people are free to like it or not, but it seems to me that the bulk of literary opinion enjoyed it and it as been left to forum dwellers, who eat sleep and breathe the Hitchhiker books to mount this revolt against the book, mostly because it's not an Adams book.
Well, pity about you, it couldn't ever be that book, what it is is a fun telling of the aftermath of Mostly Harmless, and it takes into account the movement of technology, why not, it refers to someone as Froody, so what, Ford is froody, it's what one can say to a hoopy frood to express your admiration at their froodiness!

So, people here don't like it, well, I'm here and I like it, and simply type the words "And Another Thing" and "Review" into your search engine and you'l come up with dozens of reviews from people who also loved it, and soem of them get paid to review books, so I reckon they may know something about it.

Here's a few
http://techland.com/2009/10/12/and-another-thing-by-eoin-colfer-you-know-the-hitchhikers-sequel-is-improbably-good/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/11/and-another-thing-douglas-adams
http://www.graspingforthewind.com/2009/10/10/book-review-and-another-thing-by-eoin-colfer/
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/sciencefictionreviews/fr/and-another-thing.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/and-another-thing-by-eoin-colfer-1807158.html

Although from the tone of the bulk of the posts here I don't suppose many of you will be interested one jot in any of them.....

Now, that's the ant nest poked with a stick, now we watch and wait....

"Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness won't engulf my head,
I can see by infra-red,
How I hate the night."