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The Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams

 
Description: ISBN 0330322206 / Author: Douglas Adams / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Newest Review: ... know as the creator of The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy) has taken hundreds of funny-sounding place names across the ... more

 ... United Kingdom, and attached them to a meaning of something that doesn't yet have a word attached to it! The writers, Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, start off the book by saying; "In Life, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. On the other hand, the world is litterered with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places. Our job, as wee see...more

Smitty83
Premium Review The Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams: Firmly uninformative! (580 words)
by Smitty83 - written on 08/01/08 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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I remember when I first found this book; it belongs to my Dad, a present from his Mum, and he didn't want me reading it because I think I was only 5 and it had the word 'fuck' in it. But i found it on a shelf one day, and opened the front cover, and saw a note to my dad - "Dear Paul, may you never be bothered by Scrabsters!". From that point on I decided I liked this book! I've never read it all the way through, but I've probably seen all of it by looking at random pages, and it's not the sort of book you read all the way through. For anyone who has never heard of this book, it is basically a dictionary of words the Oxford English Dictionary forgot to ...

salgirl
Premium Review Hooray for English Eccentricity! (438 words)
by salgirl - written on 03/05/01 (Very useful, 62 readings)
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If you appreciate the humour of Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy and the adventures of Dirk Gently, the Holistic Detective, then this is an excellent addition to your collection of Douglas Adams' books. Co-written with John Lloyd, the idea behind The Meaning Of Liff is a simple one. There are many occasions and events that simply have no name to describe them. There are just as many marvellous place names hanging around on signposts all over the world, doing nothing more than announcing the direction you need to take to get there. Combine the two and you have the reference point that is, The Meaning Of Liff. Let me elucidate further (great ...

jamie56
Premium Review The Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams: Liff, the Universe and Everything. (578 words)
by jamie56 - written on 04/07/01 (Very useful, 210 readings)
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Who thinks of these things? Let's find out... Douglas Adams is known for The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy or Dirk Gently and who also had his hand in with The writing of many Monty Python Sketches. John Lloyd is a BBC TV producer for the BBC series Blackadder. So then they joined forces they created this handy pocketsize reference book. But firstly, what is the meaning of Liff? Let's have a look what is says in The Meaning of Liff: "LIFF (N.) A BOOK, THE CONTENTS OF WHICH ARE TOTALLY BELIED BY ITS COVER. FOR INSTANCE, ANY BOOK THAT BEARS THE WORDS 'THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.'" ...

 

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