Attention, Douglas Adams fans!

Grouch · #1 11-20-2001, 09:14 PM

In case you hadn't already heard:
Final Hitch Hiker Guide to be published

One of these days, I'll get off my butt and read the first books in the series....

murasaki · #2 11-20-2001, 10:06 PM

I've read the first three books, way back in high school so I probably need to start over again. But they're great! His books are so funny and absurd. You're missing out (me too, until I read them all this time).

--naomi
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**tpierzina**[$] · #3 11-20-2001, 10:20 PM

...but the followups disappointed me. Still, I imagine I'll be plunking down my money for this one when it's released.

#4 11-21-2001, 02:51 PM

The first book was excellent. I remember listening to the radio series on a cheap AM radio while in Cape Cod and then back home, always making sure I could hear it every week. When the knob on the radio busted, I pried open the radio and kept it working with a screwdriver jammed in a place that most likely ought to have killed me with the current running through my body.

Each book was less enjoyable than the previous book. The Dirk Gently series spurred that downward spiral on until the last book, which was downright horrid and pathetic.

Sure, each had their moments, and I quite like the tangential style, the in the end it was like a One Hit Wonder carried on too far.

Redlass · #5 11-21-2001, 02:54 PM

This may be sacrilige, but...

I'd really hate for someone to publish a draft of something I've written after I died. Especially unfinished. It could be embarrassing.

**soxfan**[$] · #6 11-21-2001, 02:57 PM

The final book? But wasn't the ending to the last one pretty, um, conclusive?

I love Mr. Adams, but I'll probably wait to see the reviews before I get this one.

Ailsa

Grouch · #7 11-26-2001, 01:00 PM

Moron Douglas Adams

Uh...that was supposed to be "More on Douglas Adams."

Anyhoo, this particular article says Adams had been working on the Salmon book for 12 years. Quoth his agent: “He started it as a Dirk Gently detective novel, then it moved to being an uncategorisable novel, and then, towards the end, he was thinking about it as a Hitch Hiker’s book. So, there are many different versions, and Peter Guzzardi, who was his US editor for many years is trying to sort out the best version. Would he have wanted it published? Jane [Belson, Adams’ widow] said that he hated every book that he published, so it won’t be any different.”

tipu · #8 11-28-2001, 09:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Redlass
This may be sacrilige, but...

I'd really hate for someone to publish a draft of something I've written after I died. Especially unfinished. It could be embarrassing.

I know B... wouldn't that thought just throw the fingering on your harpstrings?

dijinn · #9 01-21-2002, 11:11 AM

Yeah the final book IS extremely conclusive... that is the problem from my perspective. Adams spent the entire series trying to un-destroy the Earth

SPOILER ALERT
only to wax it in the end makes no sense to me. But heck, what Adams book makes sense? I guess if he wants to destroy the Earth at the end that is fine with me, but dangit - it should at least be easy to understand, no? Anyone else confused with the last 10 pages of Adam's final HHGTTG installment? I've read it 20 times and still don't get it.
END SPOILER ALERT

So, I spose I am looking for a little closure. But, if what Grouch says is true - and it was originally chategorized under a number of different classifications, not necessarily a HitchHiker'sGuide then I don't think I am gonna get the closure I am looking for. It's Adams, WHAT am I THINKING?