Not a question, just an fyi, I made some Hitchhiker's sig tags and if anyone wants any of them with their info I'm more than happy to oblige because I love this series and I want to share the love
RE: Submit your LinksshermelJuly 25 2015, 15:20:37 UTC
- Did you enjoy the book? Yes It's one of my favourites and one of the most well thumbed books on my book shelf. I read it every year.
- Which plot points did you like? I never really think of this book in terms of plot...it's kind of irrelevant. I love all of the excerpts from the book and I'm totally down with the theory that we're all an experiment run by mice (makes total sense.) My two favourite moments are the Beware of the Leopard exchange (which sums up so much interaction with local government) and "He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea." which is how I feel every time I go on holiday (I'm a tea addict.)
- Favourite characters? Zaphod, because he's such a ridiculous pillock. Trillian, because she has zero frells to give Marvin, because I think he has it exactly right
- Did you enjoy how it was written?Yes. Reading Douglas Adams writing is like having a really long conversation with someone who is interesting
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RE: Submit your Linksseraphina_snapeJuly 26 2015, 07:46:16 UTC
I definitely agree about the plot. I don't really think of it as plot, more like loosely connected amusing anecdotes about space life, bolstered by HHGTTG facts.
Marvin definitely knows what's up. Probably the realest character in the book. :p
RE: Submit your LinksteaotterJuly 28 2015, 05:40:25 UTC
I read this book so many times when I was a teenager, I loved it. But I lost my copy in a move and never got it back. So I was glad to see it come up here, so I could buy a new one!
Well. Sort of. It was pretty funny, and kind of short, but it sometimes felt like it was trying too hard to be funny, you know? The thing I didn't like is that it doesn't really seem to have an ending - I suppose I'll have to read the next one(s) to find out if any of the unsolved issues are ever resolved.
Which plot points did you like?
Ah. The plot is actually a little thin. Nothing much happens, does it? Earth is destroyed and from that moment on it's mostly about Arthur reacting to what's out there and amusing the reader with those reactions and more of what's out there. I haven't read the other books so I don't know if this book is just setting the scene or if plot is really not that relevant for this series. Maybe there will be plot in the next, maybe there won't. That said, I think the book wouldn't be half as funny if it was about saving Earth rather than life after it was destroyed.
Favourite characters?Trillian. She saw an opportunity and she took it, and she makes no excuses for it. She seems a
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I didn't know the bit about the radios plays, but google confirmed it. The book actually makes so much more sense knowing that because there isn't much of a real plot and a lot of the scenes seems a little disconnected.
Ah, excellent point--it does get dated, which explains why I didn't like it so much upon re-reading. There is quite a bit that is politically incorrect in an uncomfortable way, now...
Bringing up the point of it feeling dated, I found the idea of the Hitchhikers Guide to be less improbabe then it was when this book was first released because, to me, it sounds like something that you could really have on a tablet.
- Did you enjoy the book? When I first read it, way back when, I loved it, the whimsy and the silliness and occasional profoundness. I was a bit of a hippie, and it appealed to that sensibility
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I can totally see why so many people who read the book when they were younger are coming back and not enjoying it so much. When I was trying to get a hold of a copy I was surprised by how many libraries had it in their young adult sections but now that I've started reading it I can definitely see why.
This never occurred to me, to think of it as a YA book, but that makes total sense. Not sure that was what Adams intended, but the humor, vividness, cartoonishness...all works well for young people. I think I remember thinking that it seemed grown up at the time--anything that is satirical, or has parody elements, always does when you are young.
Marvin is the perfect character to balance out all the silliness and random quirky fun stuff that's going on in the story. I think maybe that's why I like him.
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Yes It's one of my favourites and one of the most well thumbed books on my book shelf. I read it every year.
- Which plot points did you like?
I never really think of this book in terms of plot...it's kind of irrelevant. I love all of the excerpts from the book and I'm totally down with the theory that we're all an experiment run by mice (makes total sense.)
My two favourite moments are the Beware of the Leopard exchange (which sums up so much interaction with local government) and "He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea." which is how I feel every time I go on holiday (I'm a tea addict.)
- Favourite characters?
Zaphod, because he's such a ridiculous pillock.
Trillian, because she has zero frells to give
Marvin, because I think he has it exactly right
- Did you enjoy how it was written?Yes. Reading Douglas Adams writing is like having a really long conversation with someone who is interesting ( ... )
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Marvin definitely knows what's up. Probably the realest character in the book. :p
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Well. Sort of. It was pretty funny, and kind of short, but it sometimes felt like it was trying too hard to be funny, you know? The thing I didn't like is that it doesn't really seem to have an ending - I suppose I'll have to read the next one(s) to find out if any of the unsolved issues are ever resolved.
Which plot points did you like?
Ah. The plot is actually a little thin. Nothing much happens, does it? Earth is destroyed and from that moment on it's mostly about Arthur reacting to what's out there and amusing the reader with those reactions and more of what's out there. I haven't read the other books so I don't know if this book is just setting the scene or if plot is really not that relevant for this series. Maybe there will be plot in the next, maybe there won't. That said, I think the book wouldn't be half as funny if it was about saving Earth rather than life after it was destroyed.
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