― Sam, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Chris, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dan Perry, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― DG, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
BOOKS : Classic (Though I only remembered some of the best parts by readin the other reviews)
Radio Series (1): A lot like the book but funnier because my imagination can't do accents that well.
Radio Series (2): Definetly worse and more confusing,maybe even too confusing with Lentila and Alitnel, though that was one of the good bits.
― Matthew Pluzhnikov, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 18:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway, classic, got the radio series on CD, need to get the 'eh okay' TV show on DVD, love the books...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 18:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
Dan must agree with me on this -- couldn't you see somebody sampling the bit where the Dolmansaxlil Footwarrior says this in response to a query from Arthur Dent:
"PERVERTS! SUBVERSIVES! ALL PERVERTS, SUBVERSIVES AND TRESPASSERS ARE TO BE SHOT!"
...and then creating a perfect bit of 1991-era industrial rave a la Lords of Acid (though you'd have to cut off the 'shot' part for maximum perv impact).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
didn't start from the beginning however, so I'll give it another shot.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
BRAINS!!!!!!!
― Zombie Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Fischer, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Karen, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 05:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
*And yes I know that in Mostly Harmless all the characters and everything they stand for are wiped out with utter and absolute finality, but I managed to get around that one somehow.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 09:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link
i assume this will be listen again able for the rest of the week also.
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:00 (nineteen years ago) link
(don't normally get home until about 6.45)
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:09 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
― Peter Watts (peterw), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Sometime in the mid-80s, I think, a friend got me a many-times-dubbed copy of the BBC radio version on cassette. The quality was wretched, but I listened to it so many times I literally wore it out, laughing every time. Now I wish I had a copy for my teen-age daughter to hear, since she's discovered the books within the past two years and fallen in love.
Saw the BBC TV version once on PBS several years ago, but I don't really have much memory of it, as it was during a difficult time for me.
Anyway, total CLASSIC vote here. All hail the late Douglas Adams. And 42!
― Hey Jude, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
???????????
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link
I am lookign forward to Sam Rockwell's Zaphod I must say.
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 23 September 2004 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 September 2004 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ganbare Goemon (ex machina), Monday, 3 January 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 3 January 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
the story also involves bad poetry, tea and an extremely cool dude with two headaches
the humor is not particularly monty python-esque, but not totally unrelated
just read it
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Emily -- the time it will take you to read all the books will be enough to see you through the birth of yer wee one.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 3 January 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 3 January 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7619828.stm
Children's author Eoin Colfer has been commissioned to write a sixth instalment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series.
Mostly Harmless, the last Hitchhiker book, was written by its creator, the late Douglas Adams, 16 years ago.
Now Adams's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval to bring back the hapless Arthur Dent in a new book entitled And Another Thing...
Eoin Colfer, 43, is best known for the best-selling Artemis Fowl novels.
― the usual olfactory abuse (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
"My first reaction was semi-outrage that anyone should be allowed to tamper with this incredible series," he said.
"But on reflection I realised that this is a wonderful opportunity to work with characters I have loved since childhood and give them something of my own voice while holding on to the spirit of Douglas Adams."
Clearly I am also at first reaction stage.
― the usual olfactory abuse (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45024000/jpg/_45024052_721e5eb3-cc4b-4642-8d44-734f8fbba5aa.jpg
l-r: shit-eating grin, douglas adams
― the usual olfactory abuse (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:15 (fifteen years ago) link
what
no
― Assault! Assault! (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link
> Now Adams's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval to bring back the hapless Arthur Dent in a new book entitled And Another Thing...
she also said, according to radio4 this mornig, that she thought dna would hate the idea.
(pat nevin was great immediately afterwards though, comparing ronaldo to zaphod)
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Mice: Now, to business!Humans: TO BUSINESS!!!Mice: What are you doing??Zaphod: Oh sorry, we thought you were proposing a toast.
― moley, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP to Stephen Moore aka Marvin the Paranoid Android. Forever indelible (and as I muttered on another HHG thread a couple of months back, the audiobook recordings he did are kinda definitive in my mind).
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 October 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link