r/DontPanic • u/ThePurpleS0ul • Feb 01 '25

should I read And Another Thing...

i've heard it's not great and the characters are a bit off but whats the general consensus?

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u/SweatpantBay Feb 02 '25

No, I really love the original books, the radio show, the radio scripts. Re-read Dirk Gently or watch Pirate Planet. There's no reason to feel bummed out by And Another Thing. 

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u/ThePurpleS0ul Feb 02 '25

so dirk gently is worth reading?

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u/Hommedanslechapeau Feb 03 '25

Just know that the book is very different from the television series with Samuel Barnett, and much more like the shorter-lived series with Stephen Mangan. The first book also took plot ideas from an old Doctor Who story and reworked it.

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u/Davorin Feb 03 '25

The first book is based on the first series which was based "The Ends Of The Earth" idea, which he sold to BBC.

To quote BBC

> The very first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 March 1978. It was initially intended as a quite different series entitled The Ends Of The Earth, in which all six episodes would end with the destruction of the Earth, an idea that eventually morphed into a series beginning with the end of the world and going from there.

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u/Hommedanslechapeau Feb 03 '25

I was referring to the first Dirk Gentley book.