Hands off our classics

But Douglas Adams you are not.

I don’t really understand why this needed to happen in the first place. Adams’ trilogy already contained five books. Is that not plenty?

Why oh why oh why must we taint the work of one of the best writers of our generation?

Where is this going to end?

Perhaps we could get Philip Pullman to knock up a sequel to the Bible.

Or maybe JK Rowling would like to take on the baton from PG Wodehouse – we see less of Jeeves in this series as he is wearing an invisibility cloak.

Colfer himself seems slightly put out by this task, and was apparently requested personally by Penguin for the job.

A big fan of the Hitchhiker series, he is clearly a man who knows where his towel is.

And I guess he was offered a pile of money to do it, which he would have been churlish to refuse.
But I’m afraid I think some things are sacred.

Clearly Penguin is to blame for this travesty and I am as yet unsure how to make my feelings known to them.

At the moment I am torn between writing to my MP or heading down to their offices and staging a dirty protest.

I haven’t been this outraged since the remake of The Poseidon Adventure.