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WARNING CATS AND PUPPETS BEHIND CUTS
There is a cat on my dining room table.
( Tidying )
( Expotition )
( Pub Crawl )
( Aftermath )
There is a cat on my dining room table.
( Tidying )
( Expotition )
( Pub Crawl )
( Aftermath )
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I admit a little part of me would like there to be more Winnie the Pooh stories to read - and the ending of The House at Pooh Corner is still very sad. Would I read a sequel by another hand? I don't know. I don't think I'd pay for it.
Meanwhile, the radio tells me Eoin Colfer's sequel to The Hitch Hiker's Guide is long awaited. By whom? It always seemed sad to me that Adams got stuck in the rut of more Hitch Hikers and the endless, doomed to failure, negotiations over film rights. But what do you do when your first breakthrough is as good as it gets? How do you top Catch 22, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye? I read the sequels with an increasingly sense of duty, hated the new radio versions, and never bothered with The Salmon of Doubt.
I confess that I am enjoying Stephen Fry reprising Last Chance to See, partly because of the relationship with Mark Cawardine and the mick being taken out of urban urbane Fry. (I've stopped watching Charlie Boorman, because it was the relationship with MacGregor that mattered; without, it's Boorman getting in the way of scenery .) Fry's reading on the radio sequels, as well as his sitting in for Humph on ISIHAC is too knowing; Peter Jones and Humph had that confused deadpan of apparently not knowing it's a joke, whereas Fry seemed to signalled THIS IS A FUNNY.
So Eoin Colfer is the approved sequel writer - I confess I was put off him by the hype for Artemis Fowl, and have never read any, but I'm not going out of my way to read it. I may give Book at Bedtime a listen on Radio 4.
But apparently John Coxon, secretary of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, says it was "certainly as good as the later books Adams wrote."
Ah, fainting with praise damns, I suspect.
Meanwhile, the radio tells me Eoin Colfer's sequel to The Hitch Hiker's Guide is long awaited. By whom? It always seemed sad to me that Adams got stuck in the rut of more Hitch Hikers and the endless, doomed to failure, negotiations over film rights. But what do you do when your first breakthrough is as good as it gets? How do you top Catch 22, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye? I read the sequels with an increasingly sense of duty, hated the new radio versions, and never bothered with The Salmon of Doubt.
I confess that I am enjoying Stephen Fry reprising Last Chance to See, partly because of the relationship with Mark Cawardine and the mick being taken out of urban urbane Fry. (I've stopped watching Charlie Boorman, because it was the relationship with MacGregor that mattered; without, it's Boorman getting in the way of scenery .) Fry's reading on the radio sequels, as well as his sitting in for Humph on ISIHAC is too knowing; Peter Jones and Humph had that confused deadpan of apparently not knowing it's a joke, whereas Fry seemed to signalled THIS IS A FUNNY.
So Eoin Colfer is the approved sequel writer - I confess I was put off him by the hype for Artemis Fowl, and have never read any, but I'm not going out of my way to read it. I may give Book at Bedtime a listen on Radio 4.
But apparently John Coxon, secretary of ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, says it was "certainly as good as the later books Adams wrote."
Ah, fainting with praise damns, I suspect.
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