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| Discussion: Douglas Adams The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy is a amazing book. This is a book that really made me laugh! It's his best book he wrote I think. Bye >>By Geertruida marvin the paranoid android rules big time >>By trident yeah, Marvin's great! =) Has anyone read The Salmon of Doubt? It really tells you a lot about Adams and it really made me think... A marvelous book! >>By hooloovoo all of adam's book were awesome!! if you havent already, read all five installments of THHGTTG, and the short story young zaphod plays it safe. If you like his slightly more serious side, read the prostitue in the family tree and (as mentioned before) the salmon of doubt. Last chance to see.. is also good, and the liff books/guides are just fun to own >>By Mighty Crayon I love this book!!! Another great thing....its a trilogy in 5 parts. >>By stimulantfeline What are the liff books? Are "Salmon of Doubt" and the other books fiction? Have you read the Dirk Gently books? I did not get the end of the one with Coleridge. >>By goddog THHGTTG is my favourate book but i was never able to get into the Dirk Gently books series. The last time I tried to read them was many years ago so i think i'll give them a try again. >>By stimulantfeline I'm sorry to report, Mighty Crayon, that The Prostitute in the Family Tree is nothing to do with the author of Hitchhiker's Guide - it's by a completely different writer called Douglas Adams! Adams' two best books, in my view, are The Meaning of Liff and Last Chance to See. I wish he'd written more non-fiction. Daily updated news about HHGG and Douglas Adams, including information on the film (due 2005) and the new radio series (due 2004) is on my site Magrathea, and I can thoroughly recommend the Hitchhiker's Guide Appreciation Society too. >>By MJ Simpson Hi all, The greatest tribute to Adam's Hitch Hikers Guide is the fact that it started life as a BBC Radio 4 series, the book published after the first run on radio. The radio version still tops all other versions for perfection of production and the wonder of imagined images of characters portrayed by voice alone. Worth listening to if you can get a copy. It'll kill time when stuck in traffic jams, but others around you might think there's a mad wo/man in their midst. >>By buddy First i have to say aftering reading every book out by Adams that Mostly Harmless is the best and has the perfect ending that had no twist and even though the mulyi-verse dissapears with everything that isnt the important part. Also there is talk of a Hitch Hikers movie but i dont think it will come to reality any time soon if ever. So Long and thanks for all the fishes is also good but doesnt have nearly the substance of mostly harmless. I also love the fact that the whole series was started on the idea to basically see how many time they could destroy earth, which is alot if you give liberties with the many time and demension warps in the plot line. >>By Billy Pilgrim So long and Thanks for All the Fish was the first and only book that i have ever read that made me laugh out loud. It was the shiz-nit! >>By oledirtymilkk What can I say? Douglas Adams was a brilliant writer. He inspired me in so many ways - Ok Computer mainly... but his Hitch Hiker's Trilogy in Four Parts was pure genius. Zaphod Beeblebrox has to be my favourite character - he reminds me of myself at times.... I hope I don't grow an extra arm and head... or do I? >>By Tchock I just got resturant at the end of the universe and will shortly read it. Hitchikers guide to the galaxy was hilarious. As for the trilogy being in 4 parts, its not that amazing...Piers Anthony's Xanth series was originally going to be a trilogy now its 29 books long. But yes Douglas Adams' books are hilarious. >>By Mystic Gohan i've read the first four books of hitchhikers guide and i think restaurant at the end of the universe is probably the funniest book i ever read. the part where they're all in the restaurant drunk is priceless. i'm halfway through the dirk gently omnibus which is proving to be pretty funny itself. it's a shame to have lost such a brilliant man. >>By Lalian I have read the first 3 books and i thought they were great and very funny, especially the 2nd one, my favourite characters are Zapod and Marvin, does anyone know anything about the films? >>By Peni As anyone had the misfortune of watching the trailer for the forth coming movie. It looks utterly charmless. But like a car crash, I'll guess I'll watch it. >>By Princess Diana(no relation) I hate to say it but i agree with princess.....the movie doenst look like its gonna be good sadly. but like her i'll watch and hope for the best. >>By Mystic Gohan well i read the ultimate hitchiker's guide to galaxy and i have to say i couldn't stop laughing during the lead-in... the only problem was that it was written by gaiman not adams, if i'm not mistaken... not that the books weren't funny aswell, they were... enjoyable storys... read them... >>By HY - I read all 5 Hitchiker's both Dirk Gently's and Star Ship Titanic. All where Fantastic , Think I will read them again . >>By Rikky According to Adams what is the purpose of life? Clue: It was a number. i read the hitchiker books in three languages.: English, Swedish and Finnish. I love SciFi. Have y'all a nice summer! >>By Janice 42 Far to easy !! earth being built to replace the giant computer and all that I believe your part of the world was designed by Slartibartfast >>By Rikky Dirk Gently's became I *heart* Huckabees right? I really liked that book actually. Has anyone read The Meaning of Liff? >>By Lime House I really strugled through 'Hitchhikers' Didn't hold my attention at all but if you get a change read 'Last Chance To See', which is a fantastic book. >>By MilkyMaid I haven't read any of Adams's work other than the Hitchhiker's "trilogy". I tried getting into the Dirk Gently books, but I got about forty pages into the first book and nothing had happened yet. Which doesn't surprise me, as Douglas Adams rarely writes anything with a logical plot line, but at the same time, even in the Hitchhiker's series, there was a plot in the beginning...I mean, the earth being destroyed is a pretty good introduction to a plot. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. I should probably try a second time to get into his other books before I go around bashing them... But 'Salmon of Doubt' beats all! >>By artificial_stupidity I think the second Dirk Gently book is much better than the first. >>By dentarthurdent I read "Last chance to see" last year, even without the delicious zany humour the HHGTTU series it was a good read...... >>By planet ear Sorry THHGTTG...narrower in scope but more readily available ;) >>By planet ear My preference is Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (the first of the two). I mean this is REALLY one my favorites. I've read all of Adams' (brilliant) works and have his voice recorded stuff as well, but this one I've read three times. I started a forth time but discovered that I've pretty much memorized it. I take heart, however: if I were to become a victim of Alzheimer's disease . . . . >>By Breeze You are not logged in. To access all functionality, you can log in via Flork. 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