Read part one. Found it weak. Matter of taste, perhaps. Not gonna read anymore anyway.

Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

The TV mini-series was hysterical! I wish my PBS station replayed it, I didn't
have a VCR at the time it was on!

I really should search for it on DVD...

I DO have an old C64 Infocom Zork-type text game, I wonder if that ever was
made for PC and if it's around some where...that was amusing too.

"Got anything for me?" - Trent, A.K.A. 'Mr. Eloquent'

I have it on DVD. It's great!!! Except I liked it better on Tape when it was one 3 hour program as opposed to six 30 minute episodes.

As for the books. The first and the last are my favorites. The middle ones seemed a bit lost and not as funny.


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I liked the tapes from the radio best, altough it does miss out some good bits from the books. I didn't like the TV series much but maybe that's because I'd listened to the radio ones so much that it all just clashed with the images I had in my head. Oh, and when I say the radio series', I mean the one's read by several people, not the one's (I think book 4 and on) read by just one person.

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You all must have seen different movies than me, because the ones I saw (VHS, 2 or 3 tapes, don't remember) were very B-movie quality and all around s***ed. If there IS truly somthing better I'd shure like to see it.

@WB, there's only one movie that I know of and that is the BBC series from what is it 1978, 1980? It is very cheesy looking, but in my opinion was still very funny. Perhaps it was funnier for me because I didn't ever hear of HHGTG before that. So I didn't have any preconceptions.

However, there have been rumours in Hollywood that John Amiel (or was it Jay Roach?) will be making the movie. Whichever it is, I think it's going to suck if the wrong Americans are put in charge of it.

Only I could write it for screen and pull it off, being an American. Any agents out there? Hello? Hello?

And to counter what I know you're going to say, I don't just write Olde English. In fact I never wrote Olde English before UNTIL I came to Lancers Reactor.

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Is the fifth the short story? "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe" or summat like that?

Is the fifth the short story? "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe" or summat like that?

i read them all, and liked most of them, favorite things were the heart of gold and the mice.

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@Imagine - I don't think so. There are actualy 5 books, the first being The Hitchhikers Guide, and the fifth is *goes and looks* "Mostly Harmless"

@Sir Spectre - Yeah, thos BBC flicks are what I saw. Perhaps If I hadn't read the books it would have been more amusing. As it was, I fell asleep, wich Is what I intend to do now.

G'Nite!

I was always a Stephen King/James Herbert/Dan Simmons fan, but on reading the hitchhiker books, Douglas Adams truly broadened the scope of my reading. He has also written other books ie ~ Dirk Gentleys Holistic Detective Agency, The Salmon of Doubt, The Meaning of Liff, The Greater Meaning of Liff and others.

Favourite part of HHGTTG is the flying part, throwing yourself at the ground and missing. A clever trick if you can do it.

Also, for those that found amusement in ‘the guide’ all of the Diskworld series by Terry Prachit offers the same off the wall, unhinged from reality humour.

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I'm a massive fan too...I have all the original radio series on tapes which I recorded back in the mid 80s! And the videos of course...I really should consider buying the DVD at some point

I met douglas adams too....I was doing a spot of sound engineering for the annual FT new media awards a couple of years ago and Mr Adams was the host for the night. Really nice chap...he'll be missed.

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Favourite part of HHGTTG is the flying part, throwing yourself at the ground and missing. A clever trick if you can do it.

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Yeah I love that part. That book was the best written and funniest of all of them. I love the theory of interdimensional book setting up circumstances in the past so that it can get where it wants to go in the future.

When Ford Prefect tested that theory by jumping out the window, I laughed so hard I nearly fell off the couch.

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@Eagle - I didn't ever look for his other books, but apon finishing Dune (in it entirity) I'll look into them. Ought to be great.

@Spectre - There were quite a few times when I was falling off of things laughing. One that comes to mind was when Arthur and Ford were chasing a sofa across a field of pre-historic earth, and then Colin the exessivly happy security robot cannot be ignored either

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