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Hitchhiker's Guide/Douglas Adams *spoilers! maybe!*
Se7en:
Wow, you really ARE missing the point. The beauty is in the incoherency. If you try to follow the plot, you miss the entire thing. The satire is on such a level that you can only really apreciate it if you are so immersed in it that you cant follow the plot or tell reality from satire any more than the characters can.
Thats why it gets better every time you read it, and the guide is one of the few peices of litrature that is worth reading over and over again.
thehoopiestfrood:
I'd say the film wasn't bad, if you don't compare it to the source material. It wasn't particularly what I wanted it to be, but I did enjoy it.
He had such awful writers block though. I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure the reason why at least one of the books ends so abruptly is because he was so far past the deadline that the publishers told him to just finish the page he was working on and they'd publish it as it was.
LiterSize:
Good to know I keep in the company of genius (I get terrible writer's block too, only I don't have a publisher or scads of fans). I don't get it though. You guys want to support Adams, right? Se7en, I don't quite get how you'll avoid the movie which supports Adams or his estate. I know we're never going to get any material of his kind again, but I went to the movie, enjoyed it, and threw some money his way in the process. He was involved in the process up to his death, and no version has been exactly the same (as I was educated in an earlier Hitchhiker's thread.) I understand how you'd not want your vision of the books influenced by another retelling, but "tainted?" That's a tad excessive. "For Douglas" it says at the end of the film. The reasoning just doesn't compute with me.
McTaggart:
I'll get lynched for this, but the film was 'meh' and the books went from slightly higher than 'meh' to quite dissapointing. Evidently, that's just me though.
I read the books first btw...
Rizzo:
Yeah but you are Australian...
(:D I can say that, I'm half Australian)
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