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Hitchhiker's Guide/Douglas Adams *spoilers! maybe!*
Garcin:
--- Quote from: Jarne ---The fifth book was Mostly Harmless. Young Zaphod Plays It Safe was a short story D.A. wrote. And the first book was kind of light hearted. The fifth book was the depressing one.
I don't think the ending was horrible. I just thought it was horribly depressing, though I was on night two of insomnia when I read it, so that might have had something to do with it.
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You most likely have heard this before, but with each book in the HGTG series, Adams became more reluctant to write the sequel (and he was never very good at consistent writing effort in the first place). Adams did not want to write So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish and he definitely did not want to write Mostly Harmless. After he was essentially bullied into writing the fifth sequel (in the every increasingly inaccurate trilogy) he intentionally made it beyond ludicrous that there could ever be a sequel.
It's always entertaining to see an artist/author purposefully eradicate one of their characters, with a tangible sense of malice. Sort of like Conan Doyle deep-sixing Sherlock Holmes over Reichenbach Falls, or Elvis Costello releasing albums under the name Declan MacManus.
Rizzo:
--- Quote from: smophie ---And you're a kiwi.
Aussie's win, hands down. In pretty much everything! Including this.
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pfffft, did you steal that opinion or has it been passed down through the family? Opps! Same thing! (I kid, don't worry)
That was the one thing I liked about the movie, the way they used the guide. Also, their reaction to the gargle blaster could have been way better.
The Neko:
My favorite was Life, The universe and everything
My boyfriend is gonna be Arthu Dent for halloween. A dressing gown and a pink towel... ^_^ needless to say he wasn't impressed...
Bunnyman:
Baah, if you want some fresh, original Adams, read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and its sequel, Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (There's a hardback volume with both in it that's sitting on my shelf). Classic stuff, and feels rather liberated from the H2G2 expectations. You get the feeling (from Tea-Time in particular) that Adams is just having way too much fun.
Philybe:
The movie was pretty good, but you have to approach it with a detached point of view. It is not a film version of the book. The Books when compared to it, rock it, hands down. Both of the Dirk Gently books are even better than H2G2 in my opinion. Such wonderful books.
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