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- From: ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
- Subject: Mostly Harmful
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 07:38:06 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- Someone writes:
-
- >Unfortonatly, this is not to be the case. Everyone on this newsgroup seems to
- >have their own theory on how they could have been saved and how he can have up
- >to five more books in the series or something... But i truly believe this
- >ending was written this way so people COULDNT demand another series...
-
- I think it was written very poorly and witlessly so that people WOULDN'T
- demand another series, and also because Adams seems not to have either the
- inspiration or the energy which absolutely top-notch comedy demands. There
- was a time when he was the top comic novelist in the world, but in his last
- two books Adams seems to be deliberately laying waste to his reputation.
- _Dirk_ was a really good book, except for the obligatory and boring SF aspects
- of it; _Teatime_ sucked, except for Chapter Three, which I am convinced is the
- earliest chapter of the book; and _MH_ has not a single good scene in it, and
- only a small handful of good lines. I won't be buying any more HHGG books.
-
- Wes
-