My introduction to THGTTG was the Dutch version of the radio play, and as I didn't care for radio plays, let alone science fiction, I always turned it off. A few weeks on I understood from fellow students that it was actually very funny, so when I found out years later that there were books, I borrowed the first volume from the library.
I remember reading it during my lunch break at work and laughing so hard at the question to the answer of Life, the Universe, and Everything that people came up to me to ask what was so funny. Several colleagues turned out to be fans. One of them was a girl several years younger than me, and I got the impression she didn't get the reference to Dylan. I felt so sorry for her that she didn't understand the best joke in the book!
The first two volumes are my favourites as well, with Restaurant winning by a slight margin, i.e. 5+ out of 5. The third volume is OK at best, the fourth is completely superfluous (as fourth volumes of trilogies tend to be), and the fifth provides a good, if very sloppily written, ending to the series. I refuse to read Eoin Colfer's sequel.
I remember trying to watch the TV series on the BBC when it was broadcast (or repeated?), but the pace was relentless and I hadn't discovered page 888 yet, so I gave up. For me, the books are the definitive Hitchhiker.
(I seem to have written an essay, sorry about that!)
I remember reading it during my lunch break at work and laughing so hard at the question to the answer of Life, the Universe, and Everything that people came up to me to ask what was so funny. Several colleagues turned out to be fans. One of them was a girl several years younger than me, and I got the impression she didn't get the reference to Dylan. I felt so sorry for her that she didn't understand the best joke in the book!
The first two volumes are my favourites as well, with Restaurant winning by a slight margin, i.e. 5+ out of 5. The third volume is OK at best, the fourth is completely superfluous (as fourth volumes of trilogies tend to be), and the fifth provides a good, if very sloppily written, ending to the series. I refuse to read Eoin Colfer's sequel.
I remember trying to watch the TV series on the BBC when it was broadcast (or repeated?), but the pace was relentless and I hadn't discovered page 888 yet, so I gave up. For me, the books are the definitive Hitchhiker.
(I seem to have written an essay, sorry about that!)
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