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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Scarychips:
I developed a mild obsession to this serie 2 years ago, I read all the books non-stop, I saw the movie, and then, I tried to search for the radio and TV series. I still sometimes go at the library to get te books. I loved THHGTTG, it was particulary clever. I think I read them too quickly, and that's why I had to re-read them like 2 ways after that obsession.
I, personally, think the books were really good. It was one of the first series I really like from the first chpter to the last, I just didn't read what came out of Salmon of Doubt (they don't have it at the local library.)
Tom:
I haven't seen the movie/trailer/series and have not heard the radio program so, do I pronounce it as Zap-Hod or Zaf-od?
Neskah:
--- Quote ---Despite being a fan of the books, I guess I'm not "enough" of one, or I don't "get it".
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If you're a fan, you're a fan. Again people seem obsessed with ranking.
Truth be told I've re-read Pratchett more than Adams. I guess that could be interpretted as me liking Pratchett more.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 02 Feb 2008, 15:08 ---I'm not saying I dislike the Hitchhiker's books - they were probably my favorite things in the world when I was 12-14 - I'm just saying that I don't really get a lot out of them, and always sort of roll my eyes any time someone older than 20 goes on about how genius they are. I think it's a bit of rose-colored-glasses mentality. Hell, even into my early 20s I would fondly remember the books. Then I went back and re-read them, and I was kind of like... Oh. Yeah, this is pretty good, I guess. But by then I had moved on and was more interested in things that were either more funny (Pratchett), more serious (Irvine Welsh), or both at once (Pratchett again, or Stephenson, or Robert Anton Wilson).
In fact, RAW is a pretty good comparison in what I've perceived as fanbase and trajectory. Adams seems to me to be held up and beloved by, for lack of a better term, geeks. Not in a bad way, just... you look at the Illuminatus! trilogy, and there is a series of books which Hitchhiker's in many ways paralleled (Hagbard Celine and his golden submarine are almost directly analagous to Zaphod and the Heart of Gold, a main character who is clueless and ripped from "the normal world" into a completely zany and unbelievable adventure, etc. - no idea if Adams read the Illuminatus! or not, but the parallels are there). But you look at the core fanbase, and from what I've seen, the core Douglas Adams fanbase are people who are slightly "wacky" but tend to be in bed by 11 and would have a nervous breakdown if they went to Burning Man, whereas the core RAW fanbase are people who take drugs and get into entirely outrageous situations on sheer whim and with frightening regularity, often with tragicomic results, but still.
Basically, correctly or not, I tend to think of adults who are die-hard Hitchhiker's fans as being a convention hall away from Trekkies, and usually when I meet such people I really think they ought to loosen up, go wild, really live the dream.
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I should check that stuff out. I'm the guy who drops 4 hits of acid and is in bed by 11.
Johnny C:
I thoroughly love the Hitchhiker's series, but Mostly Harmless was a great novel that wound up being part of a series it didn't really have a place in.
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