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| Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic | 
| Author: Terry Jones
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  117 reviews
Sales Rank: 233113
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0345368436
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780345368430
ASIN: 0345368436
Publication Date: October 27, 1998
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Product Description
Arguably the greatest collaboration in the whole history of comedy!
Bestselling author Douglas Adams wrote the storyline based on his CD-ROM game of the same name (as this novel, not as him, obviously).
Terry Jones of Monty Python wrote the book. In the nude! Parents be warned! Most of the words in this book were written by a naked man!
So. You want to argue with that? All right, we give in.
Starship Titanic is the greatest, most fabulous, most technologically advanced interstellar cruise line ever built. It is like a cross between the Queen Mary, the Chrysler Building, Tutankhamen's tomb, and Venice. Furthermore, it cannot possibly go wrong. . . .
Sadly, however, seconds after its launch it undergoes SMEF, or Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure. And disappears.
Except, everything's got to be somewhere.
Coming home that night, on a little known planet called Earth, Dan and Lucy Gibson find something very large and very, very shiny sticking into their house. . .
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| Customer Reviews: Read 112 more reviews...
 Better than people make it out to be June 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
ok...just ok. May 10, 2008
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.
Terry Jones is a literary genius! January 23, 2008
I picked this book up when I originally read the Hitchhiker's series back in the late 90's, but never got around to reading it. With next to nothing out there review-wise I kind of pushed it aside. Finally this year I set down and read it and was very surprised!
Although Douglas Adams had Terry Jones write this spin-off from a segment in HHGTG, Jones totally hit the nail on the head. The clever and reoccurring jokes that made the hitchhiker's series a great read is omnipresent here. Little quirks such as "The Journalist" being called "The" for short gets a laugh every time you read it. Along with that little HHGTG flair such as footnotes explaining items which would seem peculiar to an earth-bound reader make this a good read.
If you are a fan of Douglas Adams and couldn't get enough of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" this should be at the top of you list to read. I only wonder why Terry didn't step in when the screenplay for the movie was being written in the early 2000's. With his brilliant British humor I fully believe he could have saved a lot of embarrassment to the Hitchhiker's franchise!
 Save your money June 23, 2007
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.
Starship Titanic: A bit more successful than the original April 19, 2007
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.
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