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douglas adams

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  • 15-10-2009 11:47pm
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    KashMachine
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    gonna start with hitchhikers.....dawkins was a fan of his....i love dawkin's crystal clear writing and his mind fascinates me so perhaps i might enjoy douglas adams..


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    connor2nz
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    Arthur Dent was based on Richard Dawkins: showing up at a party dressed as Charles Darwin is how he met his wife.


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    Elliemental
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    The first four Hitchikers books were utter genius, but the fifth is best avoided.
    Has anyone ever read any of his other books? Dirk Gently, Salmon of Doubt etc?


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    BopNiblets
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    Read the two Dirk Gently books, good stuff too, blundering detective stories with magical twists.


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    Mark Hamill
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    Anybody read the sixth Hitchhikers book recently released?
    I haven't really been hearing good things about it, so I unsure if its worth a look.


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    Cactus Col
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    I read some of Douglas Adams books years ago, when I was a teen, and a young man in college.

    I enjoyed them, especially the Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul.

    However, rereading one of the Dirk Gently novels last year (and listening to one of the radio serials) I was pretty disappointed. In my head I had built the books up to such a high level and the books completely failed to reach it.

    It makes me think a lot of college humour, the type that's a bit off kilter, wacky in a permissable way, self congratulatory (but not really that) clever, and smug.

    I'm afraid to pick up the Hitchikers guide, less it also falls.


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    Dades
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    Cactus Col wrote: »
    I'm afraid to pick up the Hitchikers guide, less it also falls.
    It will not fail!


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