Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

Piste

Just finished reading the second book, the restraunt at the end of the Universe, Hilarious! Anywayz this thread is really just for people to show their love and appreciation for HHGTTG

OfflerCrocGod

LOVE IT - some of the funniest writing ever published. Classic.

Piste

I know!!!!! Loadsa people think its just weird and stupid but it's HILARIOUS!!! Marvin ROCKS!!!!

Miguel_Sanchez

Absolutely brilliant.

Check out the radio shows if you can find them on tape. They're just as good if not better.

SprostonGreen

I enjoyed the first book, but was a little dubious about getting the rest. I may re-consider.

callmescratch

re-reading for the first time in years at the mo. classic. on restaurant rite now.
upcoming movie will introduce a lot more people (if there's anyone else to discover it) i'd imagine.



p.s. (o.t.) how can you tell if a book is a first edition? i think the one im reading (restaurant) is a first but would like to know for sure

Ivan

callmescratch wrote:

re-reading for the first time in years at the mo. classic. on restaurant rite now.
upcoming movie will introduce a lot more people (if there's anyone else to discover it) i'd imagine.



p.s. (o.t.) how can you tell if a book is a first edition? i think the one im reading (restaurant) is a first but would like to know for sure

There's a movie?!!?

PornStaR

the third book is by far the best.

life, the universe and everything .

the trick to learning how to fly ...

callmescratch

Ivan wrote:

There's a movie?!!?

indeed, here's the mose recent thread about it from over in films and here's the IMDB linky .i think martin freeman as arthur and sam rockwell as zaphod are well cast, dont know anything about mos def, have to wait and see.

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Check out the radio shows if you can find them on tape. They're just as good if not better

would you believe i've had an old record of the restaurant at the end of the universe for about a year now but have no record player to listen to it on. looks pretty cool though, little rubber ducky on the front

Sarky

Oh freddled gruntbuggly
Thy micturations are to me
Like plurdled globbleblotchetts on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee
My hoofing turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me in crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I shall rend thee in the gobberworts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!





It had to be said...

Piste

To check if a book is a first edition, go to the front where is says the stuff about cpyright and all that. Its usually there somewhere.

Stark

I read all 5 books and didn't really get any of them. "Undergraduate humour", not to mention a plot that made no sense.

Fair enough, he is insightful in a weird way. And the TV show is supposed to be more meaningful plotwise apparently (douglas adams didn't write the first book with sequels in mind, the tv show adapts the first book so it's more consistent with the sequels).

GuanYin

Stark wrote:

I read all 5 books and didn't really get any of them. "Undergraduate humour", not to mention a plot that made no sense.

Fair enough, he is insightful in a weird way. And the TV show is supposed to be more meaningful plotwise apparently (douglas adams didn't write the first book with sequels in mind, the tv show adapts the first book so it's more consistent with the sequels).

To be fair Douglas Adams brought science fiction to a new level with his series. It may not have had the classic "set direction" and "start, beginning & End" that other books do, but to be fair, neither does life.

Its really a parody on modern living and values than anything else and in that way, its a masterpiece (I still think the babbelfish proving the non-existence of God is a beautiful example of a typical theologian argument).

Sure its is responsible for alot of very sad nerds making even sadder in-jokes and an upsurge in geeky quotes who actually think they are cool, but to be perfectly honest, its the best thing you can take to bed after Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 6.

Caesar_Bojangle

I found the fifth book to be unnecessary, and extremely crap in comparison to the previous four books. Anyone else?

Jim

Caesar_Bojangle wrote:

I found the fifth book to be unnecessary, and extremely crap in comparison to the previous four books. Anyone else?

Aye, the books seem to degrade in quality as the go on. Still excelent though.

Although you could save yourself alot of time and

read the intro before Chapter 1 of the first book. The ending to the entire story is there

Undergod

Oh dear... Hitchiker's Guide in the Literature thread... you rock, Gummybearz!!!

Mucho fantastic, at least as far as the fourth. Check out "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detctive Agency" and "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". just as fantastic, a little more grounded in reality.

In the strictest sense, that sentence made no sense. And that one would be difficult to say out loud.

ThreadKiller

Odly enough the fifth book is one of my favourites.

I've got them all (the original being ancient at this point), I take them out once a year & re-read them. They're held together with elastic bands at this point, I really should get a hardback edition but I don't want to let them go.

The BBC website has a stream of the radio series (2004 edition). The older version is available in all the usual sources.

Sarky

syke wrote:

Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 6.

Ah, thanks for reminding me. How many miles away from her body did her erogenous zones start again?

Adams was a genius. You really have to think in order to get the joke sometimes. The absurdity always had a little logical element to it, and I was immediately hooked..

Capt'n Midnight

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Absolutely brilliant.

Check out the radio shows if you can find them on tape. They're just as good if not better.

Better, I especially like the continuity announcments at the end.

wheels of ire

The radio show is on BBC Radio 4, Thursday 2330.
I don't know if these are repeats of the original shows,which I first listened to in 1979 I think, or brand new recordings.
Anyone with BB can stream them from bbc.co.uk/radio site. You can listen on dial-up too, but I don't know what th quality is like. I don't suppose it would be any worse than the crappy old tranny I used then.
And if you like HHGTTG, check out the BBC radio channels, BBC7 has comedy classic repeats, of shows like, Sorry, I'll read that again, Round the Horne, and so on.Enjoy!

Gyck

I've just re-read the third book, on to the forth of the trilogy (?)... ...it's been 15 years or so since I read them...


"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is".