Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic

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Customer Reviews:

Maybe my expectations were a little too high? [Posted on 2006-06-27]
First I must state I am a huge Douglas Adams fan and enough of a Monty Python fan to know who Terry Jones is. So when I saw a book with the two names on the front, I was excited. I remembered hearing about the computer game of the same name, but had never gotten around to playing (still haven't) so I can't compare the two. Disclosures aside, I still can't believe I didn't enjoy this book.
In the beginning notes, Douglas Adams says this book is "altogether sillier and naughtier" than his would have been. That's not the half of it. This novel is Terry Jones' doing a poor imitation of Adams. It reminds me of what Adams may have written when he was 14, complete with disjointed plot, terrible dialogue and sophomoric sexual humor.
I actually found myself having to re-read passages because the editing was non-existant. This must have been a rush job, because I spotted quite a few spelling errors, and at least a dozen passages that were extremely confusing. Did I mention the dialogue was horrible?
I made it through the entire book only because I can't bear to leave a book unfinished. However, I would not recommend it to anyone. I hear the game is much better.

Starship Titanic: A bit more successful than the original [Posted on 2007-04-19]
Douglas Adam's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones is a hilarious book. It starts out describing separately what goes on at the building of the magnificent Starship Titanic, and the couple, Dan and Lucy. [...]

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I would recommend this book to anyone who likes Monty Python, who has nothing better to do, and can relate to many of the problems of the travel industry. There's no great meaning to this book, other than to have a few laughs. I would not recommend this book to anyone who is offended by Monty Python, or sexual references. To decide if you can handle the type of humor found in the book, just read the back cover. It will tell you all you need to judge it. Over all, this was a great and hilarious book that I would recommend to anyone.

Save your money [Posted on 2007-06-23]
Weak writing, unfunny, uninteresting, and one of the few books I may actually put down before I finish. I'm halfway through now and it's a struggle to force myself to read further. Don't waste your dough on this one, folks.

ok...just ok. [Posted on 2008-05-10]
its an ok book. a bit "campy" and a bit more slapstick in humour then douglas adams books, lacking in the wit of douglas adams but still amusing.

Better than people make it out to be [Posted on 2008-06-01]
I just got done with this book and it's the first of douglas adams i've read. I actually really enjoyed it ive read it twice now and it is pretty hillarious. TOns of irony ect i give this 5/5 easy. Great sit down and read book.

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