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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
It read a bit like an episode of Benny Hill, lacked the cleverness of Adams.
This book really needed an editor. Based on a video game by Douglas Adams (actual novel-writing outsourced to Terry Jones), and still reads in many places like a video game (Use CARD On DESKBOT). There were a few Douglas Adams-esque bits of prose, and I liked the robots. The human characters were all terrible (including the aliens, who were pretty much exactly like humans in every boring way), especially the women, or anything that had to do with women. I'd recommend this one to a die-hard Douglas Adams fan, and maybe to nobody else.
Found this in the bookshelf of the cruise ship coffee lounge! Slight but entertaining. I laughed out loud more than once.
This is a book based on a video game which is based on a throw-away side-note in a very silly science fiction book called Life, The Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams. This book, however, is written by Terry Jones, best known for his work with Monty Python. The Starship Titanic suffered a Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure, and the novel tells us how and what happened after, since apparently it is possible to exist after suffering a SMEF. Good to know. In the course of this inaugural voyage of the Starship, she picks up three humans on Earth, is attacked by engineers, is nearly blown up by a bomb that easily loses concentration when counting down, and is home to some very rude service bots. Given the concept is Adams' and the novel is by Jones, one can expect a certain level of humor and zaniness. True. However, it wasn't as funny as I had hoped. I laughed here and there, but there were also tedious bits that did nothing for me. Your mileage may vary. The best thing to come out of the book, for me, was the introduction of a new swear word to my vocabulary: Pangalin!
This book is an enjoyable, light, read. While Jones is not in the same league as Adams when it comes to weaving complexity into the humour of a novel, this book still made me laugh out loud on more than a few occasions. I think the best way to describe the plot is 'silly' and the characters 'ridiculous', but these combine in wonderful ways. A favourite moment is when someone have to confuse the countdown on a artificially intelligent bomb by distracting it with conversation.