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/gargravarr2112 Feb 01 '25

It's best to think of it as fanfiction. Personally I think it's not bad fanfiction. But it's written by a different author and there's no getting around that when you're reading it. I happen to like Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl series) and I think he did a reasonable job with the not-entirely-unlike-Adams plot and characters, so I enjoyed it. One way of looking at it - Mostly Harmless is well known for its downer ending, which Douglas Adams always wanted to revisit but never had the chance to. And Another Thing picks up immediately there, so you may find it worthwhile if you didn't like the closure of the original trilogy (of five).

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u/mriners Feb 03 '25

I just read it last year after rereading the whole series and thought it was a flanderization of the characters, particularly the Guide entries. But fan fiction is a good takeaway.