You are one of the luckiest humans on the face of the earth: You have Douglas Adams prose to look forward to. And I agree: Nobody is going to replace Douglas A

You are one of the luckiest humans on the face of the earth: You have Douglas Adams prose to look forward to. And I agree: Nobody is going to replace Douglas Adams, nor are the characters or the plot the important part of Douglas Adams' writing. But that doesn't mean the characters and plot are entirely worthless as test vehicles for other people's prose styles. Just because it isn't Shakespeare doesn't mean that West Side Story is a bad thing.