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 Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:03 pm
Any of his fans out there?
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:01 pm
I bet they're running amok in the event forum!
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Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:38 am
Me! Me! Me!!! Oh, I know the answer! 42! Marvin rules! Yay! Don't ask, but I just had my coffee. wink
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Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:50 am
I really liked the first couple of books in the "Hitchhiker's" series. His writing style is lovely. He's mentioned in Dawkins' "The God Delusion", which is a favourite of mine, as a friend of Dawkins himself before he died. His quotes in there made me admire him more than I had before.
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:09 pm
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:03 pm
I adore Douglas Adams' work. A friend gave me the entire Hitchhiker's series, and I could not stop reading it. I was actually upset when it ended! Douglas Adams was a Science-Fiction genius, and deserves to be remembered as such.
If there's anyone here who hasn't read it yet, read The Salmon of Doubt. It is wonderful.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:28 pm
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Who?
I don't think I've read any of his books...
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:15 am
Doppelgaanger ? Who? I don't think I've read any of his books... Then you've probably heard of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? He wrote the original.
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:38 pm
I didn't know he was dead! He was brilliant. "Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 49 on 11 May 2001, during the idle of his regular workout at a private gym in Montecito, California" cry
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:24 pm
I read the novelization of his computer game "Starship Titanic." It was written by Monty Python rofl member Terry Jones who played several voices on the game. I loved heart it, and I'm hoping to read his Hitchhikers' Guide series sometime.
PS: The original 1981 BBC series of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is much better cool than the 2005 movie. Well, that's my opinion anyway.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:22 pm
Kuo51 I read the novelization of his computer game "Starship Titanic." It was written by Monty Python rofl member Terry Jones who played several voices on the game. I loved heart it, and I'm hoping to read his Hitchhikers' Guide series sometime. PS: The original 1981 BBC series of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is much better cool than the 2005 movie. Well, that's my opinion anyway.
And I came across Starship Titanic sometime earlier this year and enjoyed it immensely. XD It wasn't until I read the introduction that I realized it was written by one of the Monty Python gang. razz I was a bit chagrined...I'm a big Python fan as well. (But then, it also took me a long time to figure out that Nearly Headless Nick in the Harry Potter movies was John Cleese >.< and I remember watching something recently where my dad pointed out that one of the voices was him too. Pity I can't remember what it was.......but I digress razz )
And I agree with you completely: The BBC series is better than the movie. I was in fact bothered by the character changes I saw in the new movie...and I just liked the acting in the series better, it just fit the story more and fit the characters better as well. But that's just my opinion razz
Edit: And I actually went and looked it up, becase I knew it would bug me if I couldn't remember. XD The movie was Shrek 2, where John Cleese voices the part of King Harold.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:16 pm
emo I was very sad when I heard that Douglas Adams died.
He's actually one of my favourite writes and I adore his Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy series. domokun
By far one of my best inspirations to use very big words. 3nodding
R.I.P!!!
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:43 am
I read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 3nodding
It was a pretty good book, but I'm not much of a sci-fi person.
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