Eoin Colfer’s And Another Thing… is the sixth part of Douglas Adams’ increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. It was released October last year on the 30th anniversary of the first H2G2 book.
To put it short and unimaginatively: the book is Mostly Harmless. The regular cast appears, earth is once again demolished, [...]
Category Archives: First Lines
First Lines: And Another Thing…
March 9, 2010 – 22:42
First Lines: Der Prozess
March 8, 2010 – 22:20
Josef K.’s trail started on the morning of his 30th birthday, when two officials came to arrest him. The trail ended on the eve of his 31st birthday, when two officials came to take him away for execution. In between, a mind boggling and incomprehensible trail—or process, if you will—takes place.
It’s a shadowy business, this [...]
Eerste regels: Geloven in een God die niet bestaat
February 8, 2010 – 16:53
In Geloven in een God die niet bestaat: Manifest van een atheïstische dominee legt Klaas Hendrikse uit dat a) God niet bestaat zoals, zeg, een appeltaart bestaat, en b) dat er achter de komma nog best te geloven valt in een niet bestaande God.
Hoe werkt dat dan? Het niet bestaan van God is simpel: er [...]
First Lines: The Year of Living Biblically
January 11, 2010 – 21:14
People use the bible to justify just about everything. There are those that object to same-sex marriage because the bible says that marriage is a sacred institution meant for a man and a woman. There are those that protest at funerals of gay people because the book of Deuteronomy says that thou shalt not lie [...]
First Lines: Looking for Alaska
December 30, 2009 – 20:54
Miles “Pudge” Halter, the protagonist in John Green’s Looking for Alaska, is a nerdy guy with a geeky streak: he has a thing for famous last words. In order to seek “The Great Perhaps” (last words of French poet François Rabelais) he heads off to a boarding school miles from home. There, for the [...]
