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Title: The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0-345-46095-2 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A great read...
Comment: The first two thirds of the book can be enjoyed by all, but the final third is really for the fans who have enjoyed Dirk Gently and Hitchhikers. The only thing the book is missing is interconnectedness that only Douglas Adams himself could have provided... May his memory live on.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Fine Tribute
Comment: Put together as a tribute to the man that was Douglas Adams, it is a three part book that includes Adams' everyday musings, his social/economic hardships and triumphs, his numerous articles on some of the most random topics for respectable magazines and newspapers - including a trip to K2 dressed as a rhino and an attempt to ride a manta ray -, his views on the argument of God and creationism versus Darwin and evolution, a couple humorous short stories, and the beginnings of a new novel we will never see completed.
The book is separated into three sections, appropriately titled, respectively, Life, the Universe, and Everything. The first, Life, is made up primarily of newspaper and magazine articles - including one he wrote at the ripe old age of twelve - regarding his background and upbringing, his escapades paid for by various unsuspecting patrons, his love/hate relationship with Macintosh, and other ramblings on things such as unwritten rules of travel, the proper way to make tea, the social strategies of canines, and New Year hangovers.
The second section, the Universe, is made up of half unpublished musings, half interviews with aethiests, and half speeches on our "artificial god" of money. As the title of this section would suggest, as well as my flawed arithmetic, everything discusses topics having to do with universal religion and/or ideas regarding the universe and multiple reality theories.
The third secion, and Everything, is everything else. Starting off with an interview with The Onion, then going back in time to a short story about the personal life of Ghengis Khan, followed a few thousand years in the future by the short story many of us have read in The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe," and back to the deceptively modern setting of Dirk Gently in Salmon of Doubt, the beginnings of a novel that will, hopefully, remain incomplete for eternity.
Throughout the book things pick up and then fall down again, some things funny and some things insightful and, as was Adams' style, some things both at the same time, for an emotional roller-coaster ride that I would not have put down save for the persuasive calls of nature. I highly recommend this book, even moreso if you are intimately acquainted with his Hitchiker, Dirk Gently, and Liff novels.
Rating: 4
Summary: Two books, really: Adams' articles and a short story
Comment: This book is really two books. The first is a collection of articles written by or about Douglas Adams. The second is the short story 'The Salmon of Doubt' which is said to have been rescued from Adams's computer after his death.
The collection of articles was so fascinating that the story, appearing toward the end of the text, failed to sustain my interest.
If reading for the articles, make sure to look to the end of the book to read what Richard Dawkins had to say about Adams after his untimely death.
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Title: Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0671742515 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Adams ISBN: 0671746723 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Last Chance to See by Mark Carwardine, Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine ISBN: 0345371984 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 13 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones ISBN: 0345368436 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0345453743 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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