Eoin Colfer's "And Another Thing"
Dodgy idea in the first place, attempting to get someone else to continue The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy after Douglas Adams died... but I'm a fan, and Eoin Colfer has a good reputation as a fantasy/comedy writer, so it's got to be worth reading, right?

Wrong. Unoriginal, unfunny and lots of other words starting with "un". Like bad fan fiction: all the interesting ideas and characters were taken from previous books; the very few new ones were uniformly dull.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 16:47, 7 replies)

Hahaha
no sympathy

my housemate bought it when it came out and left it by the bog, I haven't even bothered to pick it up yet
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 16:49, closed)

One day, when you run out of paper...

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 16:51, closed)

Did you see the video he did for B3ta where he answered some of our questions?
I thought the man came across as a total arse and refused there and then to read his crappy book.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 16:51, closed)

You are Amberl
AICMFP.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 16:52, closed)

As much as it pains me...
...I have to agree.

I bought it recently hoping it would be an interesting new take on the characters. Instead it was an extremely long winded swipe at religion (hadn't Oolon Culophid covered this already?) and oleaginous Oirish businessmen. It didn't half bollock on.

The ending was so unsatisfactory, I wanted to renounce the half of me that is in fact Irish and remain teetotal on St Patrick's day forever after, while force feeding Mr Colfer's rectum jagged edged discarded cans of Guinness.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 30 Sep 2010, 17:21, closed)

Welcome to the club
Managed to get about half way through it, moaning on all the time about bad pastiche and lack of anything actually funny.
Then threw it away.

Then again, Adams' last one was crap, too, so maybe this really was a valid continuation of the series......
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 12:29, closed)

I gave up on it too
and yet I have enjoyed every other book Eoin Colfer has written and Hitchhikers 1-5 a few times over.
(itisi shhh, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 19:11, closed)