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# hmmm
this might be a lot better than everyone's expecting. when he can leave off the heavy-handed ecological ranting colfer has a pretty easy, light style and a decent imagination and perhaps unlike a lot of people (or at least that they'll admit) i really enjoyed most of the artemis fowl books while i was lying around in hospital.

on the other hand, it might really, really suck. let's be honest, the last three of the hitch-hiker's books weren't themselves all that great cop either...
(, Sun 6 Sep 2009, 20:59, archived)
# Uh-oh.
Zaphod stepped out onto the surface of the planet, except he didn't because there was nothing there because the Vogons WHO ARE A METAPHOR FOR HUMANS had fucked it all up with bulldozers and heavy industry LIKE YOU HUMANS ALWAYS DO AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD BECAUSE YOU ARE A HUMAN AND NOT A DOLPHIN. (Free preview of the forthcoming book.)
(, Sun 6 Sep 2009, 21:19, archived)
# oh shit
(, Sun 6 Sep 2009, 21:22, archived)
# Hahaha
Also: Douglas wrote one really great book which breathed new life into a stale genre. The book spawned a large number of mostly inferior imitators, Douglas himself among them. LOL
(, Sun 6 Sep 2009, 21:33, archived)