Who can forget the classic Douglass Adams masterpiece: The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy? It's one of my favorite colections of books. The number 42, and a space ship shaped like a sneaker, and all that. I even learned to fly from reading this series.

I still need to read that trilogy. xD

< < Nah, I have The Meaning of Liff though.

I have read all of his Hitchhiker's books, except for the Pink Salmon one. I don't remember them that well. It was over two years ago.

I read all of the Hitchhiker's books, and reread them whenever I can remember to check them out from the library. Those are definately some of my most favorite books EVER.

I love the hitch hikers series.
I read them probably once a year.
I don't have the HUGE compliation, I have each little one in its own little paperback. It makes them easy to take with me to read on the bus or on my breaks at work.
My favorite one is Mostly Harmless... I know a lot of people didn't care for it so much, but I thought it was fabulous!

Have you guys read the "Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul"?
Im reading it at the moment ::is an avid adams fan::
Its pretty good, a little disappointing if you've read "american Gods" by neil Gaiman though..

I've read all Douglas Adams' books, even Last Chance to See, as well as American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

The HH series was important because it took lots of science fiction ideas and made them funny. There were some funny short stories in the sci fi magazines, and some biting humor novels, but none quite like that. I remember when the radio show was on the local NPR station...it was so hilarious that my sister and laughed so hard, we got in trouble with our parents.

I don't get how you learned to fly, Skaudie, from the book? And a ship shaped like a sneaker? Where was that? :D

im so glad you had me read them. I cracked up soo hard! and it kept me occupied on the nights you were away on deployment XD but seriously amazing books. you lost te salmon of doubt though. so i shall never be able to read it </3

Colossia- he learned to fly by not hitting the ground. in whatever the 3rd in the series was he jumps down from that thing that he keeps killing that was trying to kill him (im fuzzy on the details its been a while) but before he hits the ground he sees his suitcases from some time ago and because he is no longer concerned with falling he flys. he just doesnt hit the ground. the key to flying is not thinking about flying. (:

Have any of you also ever heard of "Pedistrian Pinball"? Douglas Adams also wrote that. ^^ I Love DNA's writing, may he rest in peace....

I love Douglas Adams! I did a research report about him for English recently. Everyone totally loved it. :B

I've read most of the Hitchhiker's series. I'm currently in the middle of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. It's so fabulous. <3


You should all go google "the answer to life the universe and everything" do it do it do it. :B

Originally Posted by Mary

I love Douglas Adams! I did a research report about him for English recently. Everyone totally loved it. :B

I've read most of the Hitchhiker's series. I'm currently in the middle of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. It's so fabulous. <3


You should all go google "the answer to life the universe and everything" do it do it do it. :B

You saw that too? I did it just to be funny about 2 years ago, and....>.<

Originally Posted by Mary

I love Douglas Adams! I did a research report about him for English recently. Everyone totally loved it. :B

I've read most of the Hitchhiker's series. I'm currently in the middle of So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. It's so fabulous. <3


You should all go google "the answer to life the universe and everything" do it do it do it. :B

lol i just did that. thats hilarious!

It is sad that Douglas Adams is dead. *pouts* But his Hitchhikers series is brillant! A teacher of mine when I was in high school happened to have a towel that Douglas Adams signed and wrote 42 on. My teacher treasures that towel like a holy relic. *grins* My favorite part would have to be in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe when the cow waiter comes and asks which cut everyone wanted from him before he went to the back to shoot himself. I may be a little morbid for liking that, but hey, I am a rather twisted individual. *shrugs*

Originally Posted by sfrenata

Have you guys read the "Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul"?
Im reading it at the moment ::is an avid adams fan::
Its pretty good, a little disappointing if you've read "american Gods" by neil Gaiman though..

I actually prefer "Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul." I read it first, loved it and then was disapointed when I read the Hitchhiker's Guide.
I've started to read "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" a few times, but every time I would have to return it because I was going off to school or got too busy or something.

I've seen some of the episodes of the TV show, and of course watched the movie... but I've never been able to read the books. I really want to read them and I've tried quite a few times. I just keep reading them when I'm exhausted, and I end up falling asleep. I've probably tried to read the first chapter at least 50-100 times but always fall asleep part way in and give up.

The quote in my signiture is actually from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. I enjoyed both the Dirk Gently books, as well as the unfinished chapters in the Salmon of Doubt. I think it would have shaped up into a good story.

h2g2 is an absolute classic though. I've heard the radio show, read the 'trilogy', seen the tv show and film and played the text game.

I even picked up a copy of 'Starship Titanic' today in a second hand book shop and even though it's not actually wrote by Adams himself it's based on a game he wrote, so a lot of his humour is still there!

I've read The Meaning of Liff, and The Deeper Meaning of Liff but I've only borrowed them from the library. Actually knowing some of the places they use for definitions is funny too.

Love, love and more love for Douglas for his work in both writing and his pioneering in being one of the first people in the UK to recognise the importance of computers and the internet.

I doubt he'll ever be forgotten.

douglas adams is amazingness in book form. i love hitchhikers guide to the galaxy because no matter how many times i read it it is like reading a new book. it has so much randomness, subtle jokes or down right craziness in it. even the idea of "a trilogy in five parts" is funny.

my favourite character is marvin the paranoid android that radiohead named their song Paranoid Android after. he is so good in the book as a sort of future goth character. it was good that he was played by alan rickman in the film as he is one of my favourite actors. i love him in films like die hard, snow cake, Rasputin and sense and sensebility.

The film was ok but it didnt fully capture the essense of the book in my opinion. i think this is probably because douglas adams died while writing it and it was too hard a task to start with. i hope they make another film because theres hardly any good films out ever. the tv shows still better!

I gave reading The Hitchhikers Guide another shot once I finished reading the series that I had been reading when I made that earlier post. It's going much better for me this time around. I actually think what was always giving me the trouble was just the introduction chapter that was in my Ultimate Guide edition. I ended up just skipping over the intro this time and found it much easier to read. :lol:

I'm now about halfway through The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, I think. I find a couple of things difficult to get through, but I'm absolutely breezing through for the most part.

@Colossia - I believe that Douglas Adams described the Heart of Gold as being roughly shaped like a sneaker.

Douglass Adams is a genius and the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy series is awesome. They are some of the funniest books I have ever read. I'll have to find where I left them so I can reread them all again.

I've also been meaning to rent the movie they made and read some of Adams' other books. Oh well, I'll get around to it someday.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is definitely one of my very favorite "trilogies." I've read all the books at least three times, and like Judo, I also keep noticing new funny things and subtle jokes to laugh at. I like scifi and can totally appreciate some great scifi parody. xD

I haven't read anything else by Adams, though. I totally should. I'll probably venture into the Dirk Gently books next.

As for the Hitchhiker movie... I actually liked it. It was way different from the books, but that was a good thing in my opinion, because no movie could've ever captured those books right. That way, while watching the movie, I was actually able to enjoy it without constantly comparing it to the book.

I love the Guide! I just recently read the entire trilogy over again, and it was fabulous. I love Douglas Adams' writing style, it's so matter of fact when talking about the most bizarre things.

Learning how to fly was one of my favorite things about the series, it's just so simple, why didn't I think of it before?!?

The books are far better than the movie in my opinion, it was far too romantic, I mean Arthur and Trillian don't even get together in the trilogy, and yet the entire movie was based around their romance, that's Hollywood for you I guess

Mostly Harmless ended on a bit of a down note though, and very ambiguously, I really wish that Douglas Adams had been able to write The Salmon of Doubt, I think one more novel would have been just fantastic, but, alas, it was not to be *sigh*

I just recently completed reading the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (it's a collection of all stories related to the Hitchhiker story), and... WOW. I love Douglas Adams' sense of humour (yes, I get British humour, even though I am a lowly American :P )- and the learning to fly thing was AWESOME! I couldn't help but love Marvin... I cried when he... um, I don't want to spoil it for others, but he does something heroic in one of the later stories.

It had been almost 20 years since I read the book when the movie came out, so I didn't notice all the discrepancies... but they were quite noticeable when I re-read the book (and all the other books that went with it). I still want to know what happened to poor Fenchurch. :(

Douglas Adams- Writer Extrordinaire :3

Douglas adams is an amazing author with a very..unique sense of humor and self. I've read the entire hitchers guide series twice, and i've seen the movie. What's surprising is that you realise new things every time (Like the petunias)

i love that series. its been a while since i read them... but they were very good.