_Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel_ based on a computer game which is based on a line from Adams' _Life, the Universe and Everything_ and written by ex-Monty Pythoner Terry Jones, should be funny. It isn't.

The Starship Titanic has been sabotaged and is set to destroy itself on its maiden voyage. Three Earthlings and an alien journalist are trapped on board and trying to disarm the bomb or at least get off the ship. Too much of this novel is predictable, dull, and obviously too rooted in the computer game on which it is based.

Jones seems to lack something in his writing style which Adams had in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. As it was, I didn't laugh a single time while reading this book.

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