Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Woden · 27-08-2003 8:25am

yes and are the meaning of liff books any good?

underdog · 28-08-2003 12:16am

well worth getting the deeper meaning of liff (it contains the first book, it just adds twice as many words :-)) It is absolutely brilliant. many a Adams convert have I made from random samplings of that book.

(of course I have both the maening of liff, and the deeper meaning of liff, purely for the collection you understand :-D)

halenger · 28-08-2003 12:43am

Last Chance to See is excellent. It's so readable and just so Doughlas Adams. I loved it!!

Very real, quite funny at times too!!

Woden · 28-08-2003 8:41am

Originally posted by underdog
well worth getting the deeper meaning of liff (it contains the first book, it just adds twice as many words :-)) It is absolutely brilliant. many a Adams convert have I made from random samplings of that book.

(of course I have both the maening of liff, and the deeper meaning of liff, purely for the collection you understand :-D)

ah thank you i thought they where two seperate books, the second one just containing the new stuff.

avatar · 30-08-2003 1:40am

HHGttG is brilliant.... but does anyone else think that the last book (Mostly Harmless) just wasn't as good as the others? I mean, it was GOOD, but it wasn't AS good.

neGev · 30-08-2003 1:56am

Douglas Adams = God

That is all.

sci0x · 30-08-2003 2:00am

Originally posted by Para||eL
Douglas Adams = God

That is all.

Amen

halenger · 30-08-2003 11:23am

Originally posted by avatar
but does anyone else think that the last book (Mostly Harmless) just wasn't as good as the others? I mean, it was GOOD, but it wasn't AS good.

Well I thought that the Ford Prefect parts of that book were some of the funniest things I have ever read.

I will admit to having been racing through the other bits just to see what Ford would do next!!

Zaphod B · 30-08-2003 12:01pm

I've just started reading my big hardback HHGTTG collection. For the third time. To be fair its been a whole year since the last time I read it :P

Hopefully the film's in good hands. Much as I love Gilliam's work I'm not sure he would have been right for HHGTTG, it would end up as too Gilliamesque and as Mike said it would no doubt be a Flawed Masterpiece(tm)

I think it would be nice for the other ex-Pythons to turn up somewhere as minor characters or in cameos though, maybe Michael Palin as the Captain in the bath or Terry Jones under vast quantities of prosthetics as the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal

simu · 30-08-2003 9:55pm

HHGttG is brilliant.... but does anyone else think that the last book (Mostly Harmless) just wasn't as good as the others? I mean, it was GOOD, but it wasn't AS good.

Having just finished reading the whole set of Hitchhiker books, I agree that there's something missing in Mostly Harmless. It is *very* funny in parts but the plot seems a bit hastily pulled together at times and the end, frankly is just depressing. I heard that DA claimed to have been having a hard time in his own life when he wrote it and that he had considered writing a 6th Hitchhiker book that would be somewhat more cheerful.

avatar · 30-08-2003 10:35pm

How could he write a sixth book? as I recall, they all died at the end...

sci0x · 30-08-2003 10:42pm

Originally posted by avatar
How could he write a sixth book? as I recall, they all died at the end...

Although I heard he was actually working on a sixth book, so it might be published.

feylya · 30-08-2003 10:44pm

Did Douglas Adams not die a while back?

sci0x · 30-08-2003 10:47pm

Originally posted by feylya
Did Douglas Adams not die a while back?

Yeah, but he was working on the 6th book before he died.

feylya · 30-08-2003 10:48pm

Ah. Who's finishing it so? It would be cool. I have the hard back copy. Might start reading it again. I'm listening to the audio tape at the moment.

halenger · 31-08-2003 1:16pm

He was working on a 3rd Dirk Gently book before he died.

That was The Salmon of Doubt.

He had been finding it hard to do any writing for a while. Writers block etc. Read the Salmon of Doubt. It has a lot of short stories, articles, interviews with him and a few chapters of The Salmon of Doubt-being the 3rd Dirk Gently.

I had thought it was to be a 6th HHGTTG but nope it wasn't.

simu · 31-08-2003 10:42pm

How could he write a sixth book? as I recall, they all died at the end...

Well, given the prominence of time travel and parallel universes in the books, it wouldn't be that hard to find a way to bring them back to life. After the first book, it seemed as if the earth had dispappeared forever, but it hadn't...

shock · 01-09-2003 8:08pm

Yeah, the Magratheans could just build another exact copy with all the people there, exactly like it was when before, or a sixth book could have been based around zaphod, cause he didnt die.

Capt'n Midnight · 01-09-2003 8:16pm

well they have one ready to go... (except there are fjords in france) but it wouldn't be the same without the golgafringans

halenger · 02-09-2003 12:43pm

Well they never finished it... And they stopped work on it cause the project was too long. and of course they just wanted Arthur's brain instead!

But it's pointless thinking up different ways it could be done. We are without Doughlas. He's the only one who could've done it justice...

shock · 02-09-2003 7:33pm

Very true, i'm afraid we may just have to live without any new HHGTTG.

halenger · 03-09-2003 12:56am

I very much look forward to the film though!!

I have the series on DVD and it's such a laugh. I fear there'll never be as good a Marvin (voice wise) again. But if they can pull that off it'll be fantastic. Everything will look amazing redone in 2003/2004/whenever graphics etc.

Like redoing the old Star Trek series or something!! Look at Enterprise. Everything looks so cool even though it's all so crappy really!!

halenger · 19-10-2003 11:07pm

*does a little dance*

HHGTTG Link

I think this will make most/every HitchHiker's Guide Fan happy!!! I know I am!!!!! Hehehe...

GuanYin · 19-10-2003 11:10pm

Really looking forward to it, but I fear it will never match the BBC series!
Oh and as an after thought... I hope the keep the theme music from the BBC series...it was perfect!

mike65 · 19-10-2003 11:15pm

Not too happy.....its being directed by a pop video chappie who also does tv ads....yes I know thats how Ridley Scott began...but the same is true of Michael Bay :ninja:

Mike.

halenger · 19-10-2003 11:31pm

sykeirl: me too... Remember the voice of Marvin from the series? I thought that was absolutely the best ever!!! So fitted that part and guess what. A little further reading on the page shows that Stephen Moore, who is confirmed as the voice of Marvin, is the same guy!!!!!!

That's gonnnnna be so cooooooool!!!!!

Mike65: hmm... I read a little about the director alright. He did the music videos for "Coffee & TV" (loved that) and "Imatation of Life". I personally liked both of those videos. Oh and I completely forgot "Right here, Right now". That was a fantastic video.

"British directorial duo Hammer & Tongs are set to make their feature-film debut with HHGG"

The point really is that they're British! Same with Red Dwarf. If they had tried to Americanise it it would have been ruined. Sure Terry Farrel as the Cat in Red Dwarf was a joke beyond all belief!!

Zaph · 19-10-2003 11:47pm

Originally posted by skyeirl

Oh and as an after thought... I hope the keep the theme music from the BBC series...it was perfect!

The theme music from the BBC series was actually "Journey of the Sorcerer" by The Eagles

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Comments