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E un'altra cosa...

Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti - Parte sesta di tre

By Eoin Colfer, Giuseppe Iacobaci (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9788804607823

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E un'altra cosa...

La trama e le recensioni di E un'altra cosa..., romanzo di Eoin Colfer edito da Mondadori. Era ferma intenzione di Douglas Adams scrivere un sesto episodio della sua trilogia (ehm ehm) della Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti, ma la morte prematur ... (read full critics)

Qlibri published on Mon, 29 Nov 2010

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1.5 stars for the effort, but Colfer's book reads more like fanfiction set in the HHGG universe rather than a proper new novel and conclusion. Most elements and gags are recycled from older stories, giving it a feel of a 'best of' where you keep retreading the same tracks rather than visiting someth ... (continue)

1.5 stars for the effort, but Colfer's book reads more like fanfiction set in the HHGG universe rather than a proper new novel and conclusion. Most elements and gags are recycled from older stories, giving it a feel of a 'best of' where you keep retreading the same tracks rather than visiting something new. It doesn't help that the notes from the Guide, an important part of the previous books, here feel like annoying intermissions that break up the pacing rather than well-thought diversions that integrate into the story. And what's up with Colfer's obsession with Eccentrica Gallumbits?
But I could've readily forgiven all this if not for what seems like the greatest omission in an HHGG story: Arthur Dent. Arthur was the voice of the series and, while he didn't actually do much, we saw the universe as filtered through his eyes and thoughts, and that made it even more wonderful and eccentric and frustrating. In this book he doesn't appear much at all and, when he does, he's curiously jaded and un-British.
If you look at this novel as an HHGG side-story about Thor and Zaphod it's not even that bad. As 'book six of the trilogy'... eh.

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