Today (2009/10/12) is the thirtieth anniversary of the first (UK) edition of Douglas Adams' novel of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book the BBC's publishing arm refused!
hah, interestingly enough, i had no clue it was the 30th anniversary of the hitchhikers guide, and i finished reading life, the universe and everything last night only a little bit after midnight.
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Anonymous2009-10-13 6:52
You all realize there's a sixth book out now, right?
It's written by Eoin Colfer, the guy that did Artemis Fowl, and brace yourself for the shocker, IT'S FUCKING AWESOME.
>>5
He's probably the one man I'd trust to keep the series going.
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Anonymous2009-10-14 14:15
If you haven't listened to the BBC radio broadcast, you're seriously missing out.
That said, I just realized I never did read the FIFTH book. Fuck. How did that happen?
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Anonymous2009-10-14 14:44
>>8
Did you perhaps read them in a collected edition? Curiously, to this day, the 1986 omnibus without Mostly Harmless remains in print.
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Anonymous2009-10-14 14:49
>>5
is it really worth picking up? i saw it in the book store earlier today and skimmed through a few pages, seems like he kept the style the same, though im fairly skeptical when any author (regardless of how good) continues someone elses series.
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Anonymous2009-10-14 23:06
Surely I'm not the only one who thought that Mostly Harmless wasn't up to the standard of the other books.
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Anonymous2009-10-15 0:49
>>11
It had its good moments, but it had a strange vibe.
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Anonymous2009-10-15 10:41
>>2
Seconded. It's horrible. God, it's badly written and poorly conceived.
I myself liked Mostly Harmless, don't really see why you guys don't like it.
Anyways, just finished And Another Thing. The ending is sad, Arthur is truly the unluckiest man in the universe.
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Anonymous2009-10-16 3:17
Mostly Harmless was probably my second favorite one after the first one. It had a different mood about it
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Anonymous2009-10-16 15:21
>>16
It's probably my third favourite.
Restaurant at The End of The Universe>original>Life, The Universe and Everything>Mostly Harmless>So Long and Thanks FOr All the Fish
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Anonymous2009-10-31 18:13
I think Adams was going through 'issues' when he wrote Mostly Harmless and was never 100% happy with the end result. He wanted to write another Hitch-hikers book but couldn't think how to bring them all back from the dead without it seeming like he was just bringing them back in order to make more money.
I've not read the new one yet but am going to as Colfer is ultimately a better storyteller than Adams and can be just as funny.