The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

so.... who has read it? and what do u guys think?

...other than :screwy:

Fucking hilarious :D

You should read the sequels too :)

As in "So long and Thanks for all the fish - the 5th book in the increasingly inappropriately-named hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy trilogy"?

Great books. I recently got the DVD of the old BBC tv show - weird; but very cool

i love it. I've got a paperback copy of the first one and the last two, and a hardcover copy of all 5 books in one.

I think my favorite book is number 3, but I can't really decide.

is that the one by Douglas Adams? if so its a good book IMO :thumbsup:

just started reading them. finished the first two and love them.

Never read it. Been meaning to.

Iv never read it, but I watched the whole BBC series when it was TV some years ago, then saw the DVD about a month ago when my flatmate borrowed it from someone.

VERY cool bit of satire, comedy and Sci Fi all rolled into one, and considering how old it is, its amazing how much is still relevent.
Mr Adams is one very smart man.

Mr Adams is one very smart man.

...was a very smart man.He died in 2001,age 48.Such a waste.



Here's a brilliant mp3 of Marvin......
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~thiekeju/sounds/MARVIN2.MP3

and a great fansite.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/dna/

I watched the whole BBC series when it was TV some years ago.

VERY cool bit of satire, comedy and Sci Fi all rolled into one, and considering how old it is, its amazing how much is still relevent.
Mr Adams is one very smart man.


I watched it many years ago too. I just had to buy the books afterwards, it was both funny to watch and read.

I've read the books, and I'd really like to see the TV series. As I understand it, the TV show came first... and Adams was able to use the TV show to develop all the points in the books. Very funny.

I used to play the Infocom game, too. Anyone remember that? :D










Oh yeah... 42!

I loved the show/movie whatever... Actually, they were showing the whole thing on PBS over the weekend.

Anyways, I tried reading the first book once, but couldn't get into it, may have to give it another try.

Very funny stuff! I read them first when I was in high school, but always seem to come back to them every couple of years for a re-read. Always laugh-out-loud funny. :rofl:

Anyone else here play the computer game of Hitch Hiker's Guide to teh Galaxy? I had it on tape for the Commodore 64 - text based game, but funny as hell some of the stuff you had to type in to get through it!

42...that's all I gotta say.

It started out as a BBC Radio show, then the TV series, and about the same time the Books, which are based on both the radio and the TV series.


I'll certianly buy the DVD if I see it anywhere, but the only problem is Iv only ever seen it zoned for the UK, which means it won't play on my DVD player, I had to borrow my parents one last.


and R.I.H (rest in hilarity) Douglas Adams.

42...that's all I gotta say.


:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:



I read the first and So long and Thanx for all the fish and i loved them

well... there is a new book!

The Salmon of Doubt

well... there is a new book!

The Salmon of Doubt

Very seriously dout that Douglas Adams has written a new book from beyond the grave. He's been dead for a couple of years now.

I have read all his books, watched the tv shows, have copies of the BBC raido tapes and meet him once while he was on a book tour for "So long and thanks for all the fish".
Anyone read his dictionary of words that never were? Funny stuff...

Scott

Very seriously dout that Douglas Adams has written a new book from beyond the grave. He's been dead for a couple of years now.


Scott

Amazon review,The Salmon Of Doubt.

Edited by Peter Guzzardi and with an introduction by Christopher Cerf, this bittersweet collection comprises letters, fragments of ideas for books, films and TV, ruminations on a diverse array of subjects and a good bit of a final unfinished novel by the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, who died in May of last year. Included are a letter to the editor of a U.K. boy's magazine (written in 1965, when Adams was 12); a reminiscence about his lifelong love for the Beatles, written when he was in his 40s; a 1991 piece from Esquire entitled "My Nose"; and an undated article for the Independent espousing his preference for whiskey. Also on hand are a q&a in which he identifies the most interesting natural structure as being a "2,000-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News"; a spiritual encounter with a giant manta ray while testing a mechanical diving device at Australia's Great Barrier Reef; an affecting introduction to P.G. Wodehouse's unfinished novel, Sunset at Blandings; an account of a Save the Rhino pilgrimage across Africa; ruminations on computerization; and a philosophical address about the authorship of the universe entitled "Is There an Artificial God?" Two sketches "The Private Life of Genghis Khan" and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" from the Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, 1986, are also here, as are 10 chapters from various versions of the title novel-in-progress.

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:shakehead Looks like a last cash-in by his publishers to me,but the material content will be good.