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Summary: Adams/Python Fans Beware: Iceberg, Right Ahead!
Review: As a big fan of Douglas Adams' early books and a huge Monty Python fan, I readily bought this book when advertised in the most recent version of Hitchhiker's Guide. Starship Titanic (the ship) may be able to travel to the outer spiral of the Galaxy in 3 Dormillian days, but Starship Titanic the book goes nowhere slowly. Populated with shallow characters that are not so much unlikable as they are incapable of generating any feeling toward them at all, the thin plot plods unentertainingly through its mercifully brief 245 pages.
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Summary: Absurdist Science Fiction Humor in the Hitchhikers tradition
Review: This was a quick, amusing and entertaining read. Terry Jones writes in a style evocative of Douglas Adams. Unfortunately, his ending was as slapped together as in many of Adams's books. However, this short book has the same type of parodying humor that cleverly makes fun of our current society and mores through the views of several wacked out alien cultures. Alas, this book is short, so instead of being published as a novella, the font and line spacing are cranked up to double the page length. As 3 humans stumble onto the ill-fated Starship Titanic on a brief voyage around the galaxy, one can see the imprint of Douglas Adams's brilliant mind on the adventure. And who better to write an absurdist book than a former Python.
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Summary: Shallow, poorly written
Review: Shallow, incredibly 2D characters. Fast but moderately predictable plot. Douglas Adams style humor in the plot, but not the writing. Terry Jones makes it obvious why he writes for movies and TV but isn't a novelist. Badly interrupted dialogue. Overall, not particularly funny; hard to read; and the only redeemable characteristic is the rather good introduction by Douglas Adams himself, and that just describes the process of how the book was written.
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Summary: Good enough
Review: What do I mean by "good enough"? Exactly that. At a paltry 250 sparsely spaced pages (or should that be densely spaced and sparsely worded?) this boook takes you all of one afternoon to read. And looking at it in those terms, it's worth the sit down. But little more.As you discover in the intro by Adams, the book is in parallel with the game (which I have not played). And in those terms, Jones does a great job in making you feel like you're playing a game in book form...with the minor problem that you can't actually control the characters. Ok, so that's a flaw. But seriously, if you expect an Adams-esque read that is based on an adventure video game, well then you won't be disappointed. The style is very much like later Adams works, so you hardy notice any difference between Jones and Adams. Now, one should not confuse this with early Adams work. Because it's clearly more scatterbrained and even more over the edge that his early works were. Adams used to write with a quirkiness that amused the reader. Jones writes with a quirkiness that annoys the reader at times. There's a fine line between being funny and having little to say but saying it dressed up in drag and squalking like a chiken. Jones crosses that line a tad too often for my tastes and as a result, you find yourself thinking, "Get on with it already." All in all, I have to stand by my 3 star rating because coming into it, my expectations were very low for this book...and so should yours be. I bought it at a bookstore down the road for $... in the bargain bin. I think that's all you need to say so far as expectations go. They were not great. With that in mind, the book entertained sufficiently. And it very much resembled a video game structure so far as plot goes. And it was short, so I did not spend too much of my life being mildly amused at times. To use a phrase that others have in various reviews I have read, you could spend yout time in a lot worse ways. Naturally, the reverse can be said. Essentially, proceed at your own risk.
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Summary: If you loved "Hitchhiker's Guide"...
Review: If you LOVED "Hitchhiker's Guide", than you will very much like this one. A whole different cast of characters embarks on a new journey through space as 3 friends from Earth find themselves trapped on the greatest and most fantastic luxury space ship ever when it lands in their back yard. To make matters worse, the ship has a bomb on board that is counting down. There is a planet of people who have invested their entire economy into crafting this ship, and an alien journalist on board who wants nothing more than the scoop of the millenium. It has the same, hillarious, ironic humor that made the Guide so great and a new set of characters to keep it fresh. It's not as great as the Guide, but it holds its own.
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Summary: There is a good side to it: it's short!
Review: Let us start with a quick quiz: in which city does the London Bridge stand? Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA. OK, another one: who wrote Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic? Well, Terry Jones, of course. So what does Douglas Adams have to do with Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, if anything at all? Well, he is the author of a storyline for a computer game of the same name. I believe that the phrase "a novel written after the computer game" pretty well summarizes it, and prepares the reader for the quality of plot (s)he is to encounter. If you are considering yourself a great fan of British humour, please try to forget the names Douglas Adams and Terry Jones for a moment and re-evaluate it pretending that it was written by an unknown author from Ukraine, or Nebraska. See what's in it? As a great fan of Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy from over twenty years ago, I have saddenly observed the stagnation and decline in originality and quality in its author's later works. It's sad to see Douglas Adams and Terry Jones (ex Monty Python's Flying Circus) themselves prostituiting like this. Really sad.
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Summary: Horrible.
Review: This book is just horrible. I can't see a grade schooler turning this in and getting more than a C-. The attempts at humour fail miserably. The plot (and there is only one, and you can hardly call it a plot) is entirely uninteresting. This also bears no resemblance to Douglas Adams' writing, nor does it even give you any insight into the Hitchhiker's universe. I'm embarrassed to even own this book. I'm surprised Douglas Adams agreed to let his name be put on the book. Read something else.
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Summary: "PARROT DROPPINGS!"
Review: The funniest book in existance! So funny i fell out of my bed whilst reading the bloody thing! A great book, must read. Please read it, in memory of Douglas Adams.
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Summary: Humourous but very, very Adult
Review: I've been told that Sex is what got me here, so I shouldn't be disgusted. I suppose I shouldn't. But what am I to think of a book that talks about it so excessively and describes it so explicitly? Don't get me wrong, I think it's quite a funny book. At least for about the first half. The second half started out disgustingly raunchy, then not quite so raunchy as it was eye rolling. I liked the characters in the book during the first half. I thought that they were witty and inventive. Then, much to my dismay, Sex was introduced to the story. All the morals the characters seemed to have in the first half suddenly vanished! I love both Douglas Adams and Terry Jones. I thought that the idea for the story was a good one. But it seriously could have been cleaner. At least now I know why it's in the adult section in the Public Library, tucked behind Peirs Anthony and Terry Brooks.
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Summary: Monty Pythin does sci-fi
Review: A pretty good parody of sci-fi that gave me a few chuckles, but not enough to want to read it again.
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