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Thursday, October 15, 2009
And another thing...
I got a new book:
Eoin Colfer was charming and funny and very Irish, and I liked that he was just as appalled at the thought of writing this book as the rest of us were at the announcement that someone else was writing a Hitchhiker's book. He's only doing the one (because damnit he has to write more Artemis Fowl right now), and he kinda hopes that someone else will pick up the mantle, so that it's not just him and DA to compare. I have to say I kinda agree. They did it for Sherlock Holmes, why not for Arthur Dent? Oh, and Eoin is a mac. *grins*
Of course, now I need to find a way to fit this thing in my suitcase.
ETA: I had completely forgotten I already had a HHGTTG tag on my blog. This makes me inordinately happy.
Labels: almost but not entirely unlike tea, books, cambridge, trip09
posted by Catherine, 8:34 AM | permanent link
Comments:
Pretty awesome!! I didn't know there was another book in the "trilogy" :-)
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Beto, Friday, October 16, 2009 3:01:00 PM
K (on crossposting): Yeah, I kinda got a bit creeped out by the attention these got on facebook, so I culled things by switching it to the dreamwidth feed, which I haven't been updating because there are too many professors now on my facebook profile.
On the book: The story goes that the family asked Eoin especially to write three books, so that the trilogy would end on a happier note. Since it was the family asking (and not the publisher) he found it hard to refuse.
(I also especially liked the comment that while the publisher might see another book as a great new source of income, Eoin's making a lot less money this year by not working on his own bestselling series.)
Catherine, Saturday, October 17, 2009 9:15:00 AM
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