• General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Mostly Harmless. I didn’t like that one. It was somehow bleak and left me worrying that DNA was in a bad place when he wrote it. I’m going to be a heretic and say that I did like how Colfer continued the series.

    In a Discworld novel, an off-hand remark mentions Ponder Stibbons wanting to build a Van-De-Graff-generator by tying cats to a wheel. I wish I could remember which book it was.

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      22 hours ago

      I kinda liked the bleak. It felt like an ending. Drove home a fairly central theme

      Never read Colfer’s continuation, I read some of the Artemis Fowl books when I was younger and I didn’t really expect him to match Adams’ particular style.

      I did listen to the radio adaptation though, and if it’s true to the source then it was… okay? I’m not sure it added much.