Rating: 
Summary: Actually rather bad...
Review: After hassling my bookstore for three days (a while ago), I got my hands on the book and read it in one go. Not because is was very good, but because I was waiting for the fun to start, which never really did. I finished the book, tossed it in a corner (far away from my other, loved, DNA stuff) where it'll probably stay for the rest of its sorry life. I felt somewhat had, because I had bought a book which sole purpose was to sell a lot of books (DNA fans will buy anything he puts his name on) and a lot of computergames. It has it's funny moments, but the way in which the very simple story is told is shallow and never makes one wish it was longer. One of the biggest mistakes is the title: It's just extremely tacky and lacks every kind of creativity. Anyone could come up with a title like that. Just not a good book.Douglas (if you read this, as you should): Move somewhere really remote, bring your laptop with only a word processor installed and start working!
Rating: 
Summary: Not worth the paper written on
Review: I really can not think of a book (lucky me) which is any worse that this one. It is like someone took some bits and pieces and put something he thought is funny (well, a little perhaps) together...
I really would like to know why Douglas let his name to be used on this book. Very sad.
Rating: 
Summary: Sure, if it turns you on...
Review: Some real good hours of fine "Doulas Adams Madness". It's really fun to se Terry Jones trying to take on this project, wich otherwise, as we know, could only have been written by mr. Adams himself. Sadly, he does not quite cut it.
It seems to me as if hes afraid to wright it in hes own style and tries to do it as Adams would have. Of course it's great fun to throgh in a fish-paste sandwich from nowhere on the very first page of the book, but it lacks that sence of a special deeper background thougt that Douglas always involves. You know the one which makes you think: "hey thats another way of seeng things, maybe thats thats a way of tackeling life. Maybe its even the point of it all... No I could just as well go and hang myself in this very moment."
Furthermore I think the ending of the novel is pretty lame. I mean, all they had to do was to find Leovinus and get Titanias brain back in time; and they did it! Hurra!!! I ecspect something more out of a Douglas Adams project. Something Extra.
No, enough, this was a damn good book and I strongly recomend it to anyone.
Rating: 
Summary: I like it! I like it!
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read. The story is extremely clever and will keep you guessing until you've finished the last page. And it's very funny indeed. I just can't get over the feeling of how much I like this book!
Rating:
Summary: Don't read it as a Douglas Adams Book!
Review: The book is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. You just can't read it as a Douglas Adams Book... I am sure it would have gotten better reviews if it was just called Starship Titanic... Kept me interested..
Rating:
Summary: Quite alright, but not as good as The Hitchhiker-series
Review: I'm a big fan of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker-series, although I thought it got a bit less entertaining in the end. The Starship Titanic was an alright read, I found it amusing, but really not as funny or imaginative as the Hitchhiker-books. Some parts were better than others, and if you like Adams and Monty Python etc. it's OK. It might be better as a computer game, though
Rating:
Summary: Well, I liked it!
Review: Anyone who was expecting this to be another Hitchhiker's book deserves to be disappointed. However, it is still a fun romp through a marginally insane universe. Kudos to Jones for wrapping a story line around a yet-to-be-seen computer game; he managed to tell us about the game without giving anything away.
Rating: 
Summary: Disappointing
Review: Starship Titanic is about the largest, most lavishly decorated first class space cruiser ever build. But being called Titanic, it will not doubt come as a surprise to few readers that it undergoes a Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure when launched. Apart from that, Murphy's law appears to be a natural and integral part of the Starship. The story is written by Terry Jones commissioned by Douglas Adams on the grounds that he didn't have the time himself to do it. Terry Jones almost fails to do a reasonable job given the preconditions and his utter lack of dress style (he allegedly did it in the nude). The concepts of the story should have be entertaining as they are very Adams'k, but Terry produces something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Adams's writing.
The jokes are presented in a cumbersome way. The build-up to the one-liners are too long-winded and makes the jokes predictable. It's very close to being not funny.
The actions are described in a flat and uninspired way. There are too few surprising in-line on-the-head view points, which I love in Adams's writing. It is fairly obvious, apart from the introduction mentioning it, that the book is based on a computer game, rather that the other way around. It's as if the story have a predefined set of points it has to go through, like dots in a connect-the-dots drawing. Terry Jones dutifully connects all the dots but doesn't add much in between. It all seems rather crude and left-handed to me. In short, Terry tells it in much the same way that Adams don't. I'm disappointed. I'd rather read some Vogon poetry. Somebody ought to do a re-write before too many readers are subjected to it.
Rating:
Summary: Novel or script?
Review: A good rule of thumb; If you are a good movie director or actor, don't write a book. Starship Titanic, when read like a movie script, is quite good. But for us book lovers out here, please try again, and think it out more this time. If it wasn't for Adams' name and the few funny lines here and there, I would give it a 1 and get my money back. Maybe they should make it into a movie. Hmm...
Rating:
Summary: frantic and dull at the same time
Review: Reads more like a description of a movie - lots of action, plenty of screaming and running in circles, plus sex. Disappointing, considering the talents of the authors. No plot to speak of.
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