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Douglas Adams in general

Description: Author: Douglas Adams

Newest Review: ... I agreed at every turn. The Hitch-Hikers Guide has influenced me more than any other book, and I must confess that my friends and I look out for the number forty-two everywhere, just so that we can shout forty-two at the top of our voices. I have found it in many strange places. I have read the book (and it’s four sequels) many times and it is still enjoyable. The only ‘black ... more

... spot in his writing I find is the T.V version of the HHG. This just wasn’t as enjoyable as the book/radio series. The Hitch-Hikers Guide, Douglas tells was thought up whilst lying in a field in Innsbruck, Austria in 1971. He was Hitchh...more

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Douglas Adams in general: Douglas Adams, almost a hero for me. (494 words)
by - written on 10/10/01 (Very useful, 22 readings)
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I first heard of Douglas Adams' death when I saw it in the paper. They had given him a very small section, one column and about thirty lines. I actually gave a minutes silence almost automatically after seeing the headline. Douglas Adams was almost a hero for me, as I enjoyed all his books. I would often learn things about the way he felt and thought about things, and it would sometimes scare me. I can say ‘I never really got the hang of Thursdays’ without it being a pure quote as I really do have trouble with Thursdays. It is the worst day of my week often. I also agree with many of his beliefs, on reading ‘Last Chance to See’ ... Read the complete review

So Long And Thanks For All The Laughter (674 words)
by - written on 21/06/01 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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When my husband phoned me at work to tell me Douglas Adams had died, I almost cried at my desk. I have been a fan since I first read 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' at around age 8, and since then I have read his work voraciously and waited impatiently for each new installment to come out. No other writer has ever made me laugh so hard, laugh out loud or keep laughing through as many re-reads as Douglas has. After some online research, it appears that Douglas died on Friday, the 11th of May after suffering a heart attack at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was only 49 years old. His personal assistant Sophie Astin is quoted ... Read the complete review

Douglas Adams in general: So Long and Thanks for all the Books! (956 words)
by - written on 13/05/01 (Very useful, 29 readings)
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What a laugh. That's pretty much all you can say about the man, except to add that he was a clever, witty, caring and creative genius. Born in March, 1952 in Cambridgeshire, he was educated in a high school in Brentwood, Essex before returning home and attending St. Johns College, in the dreaming spires town of Cambridge. He had done a variety of things, including getting outrageously drunk in Austria and having no money for a bed, crashing out in a field and thinking how brilliant it would be to just hop around the galaxy. People could use a sub-etha net to communicate their experiences of different planets, and tap into it whenever they wanted to ... Read the complete review

Douglas Adams (90 words)
by - written on 08/09/00 (Useful, 6 readings)
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Douglas Adams is a brilliant author. Very original, very funny, and with an outstanding imagination, this man writes books which taked a great deal of effort to forget. The beauty of what he does, for me, is in the application of science fiction values to uniquely funny situations - or is it the other way around. His work is packed with ideas, but the human side of the stories adds that vital sense of humour, the comical touches which are the reason to read his books. A favorite author of mine. ... Read the complete review