And Another Thing - Eoin Colfer

Douglas Adams is one of my favorite authors, but regrettably passed away suddenly in 2001. For eight years, I've continued to check the beginning of the SciFi section at the bookstore, hoping to find that a forgotten work was found and published. No luck there. Mr. Colfer has written the 6th book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (for the uninitiated, yes, Adams wrote five books in what started as a trilogy). First a positive comment - it was good to run into the whole gang again, even if much of the book seemed to be key players and events from earlier books held together by a loose storyline. The characters were there in name, but they weren't quite "right" in many respects - Ford and Zaphod seemed quite different to me. The story also didn't contain the wit that Adams captured in the 1st five books, and I don't believe that there was a single quotable piece of dialogue. To be fair, this wasn't a bad book, but when you're stepping into the shoes of someone like Adams, you can be almost certain that the shoes will never fit just right.