After reading it in my early teens, I didn’t know anyone who might enjoy it. So I took the book and wrote a note that said “This book is not just a book you find, it also finds you.” and I put it in someones mailbox. I sometimes wonder if that person whoever it was liked it or even read it.
I’ve read the series (well only the Douglas authored books). I have a copy of The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which I have not read. Does it make a difference?
Much like the TV minseries, book, movie, radio play and audiobooks - all incarnations of The Guide are accurate and complete, especially the parts that contradict… It just depends on which multiverse you have existen been fromme. (Universal relativism weirds language.)
While the Guide is important, I actually think Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and Long Dark Teatime of the Soul might both be more important. I’m actually often saddened they didn’t get as much love as Hitchhiker’s Guide.
The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
All of Discworld.
I was trying to narrow it down to 1 discworld book. Ive got it down to Small Gods, Jingo or Thud!.
I also got confused whether a full stop goes after the ! Or not.
You missed 0art of the assignment
That’d be a pretty big book…
I’m working on that currently. I think I’m on book 6, so only about 40 more to go lol
Now I want it in a single volume (electronic)
It’s sooooooo worth it
I don’t know exactly how much of my warped view on reality is directly attributable to reading the Guide at a young age. I hope most of it.
Likewise. I think it made us better people
After reading it in my early teens, I didn’t know anyone who might enjoy it. So I took the book and wrote a note that said “This book is not just a book you find, it also finds you.” and I put it in someones mailbox. I sometimes wonder if that person whoever it was liked it or even read it.
Me too.
I’ve read the series (well only the Douglas authored books). I have a copy of The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which I have not read. Does it make a difference?
The Douglas-authored books would be…all of the Hitchhikers’ Guide books. Which is what the Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide is.
I think it may not make a difference, no.
There is a sixth book that Jane Belson, Adam’s widow supported, called And Another Thing… written by Eoin Colfer.
Much like the TV minseries, book, movie, radio play and audiobooks - all incarnations of The Guide are accurate and complete, especially the parts that contradict… It just depends on which multiverse you have existen been fromme. (Universal relativism weirds language.)
At least that’s what I believe.
The Guide from Mostly Harmless agrees with you.
See? Its even more internally consistent than the Bible.
I only wish we had gotten The Salmon of Doubt.
While the Guide is important, I actually think Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and Long Dark Teatime of the Soul might both be more important. I’m actually often saddened they didn’t get as much love as Hitchhiker’s Guide.
To me it’s a bit like the Bible. You’ve got the big few books and then so many supporting documents explaining the mindset behind the revelation.