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Title: Douglas Adams : Two Complete Novels by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0-517-11912-9 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 14 December, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fabulous book
Comment: I would venture to say that these two books are better than the more famous Hitchhikers guide. Not only are these books funny, odd, and a genuinely fine read, I would say they are in many ways great examples of truly postmodern literature (and I have an A on a graduate level paper to back me up). Adams was not only a creative genius, but he saw how society was moving in a positive direction and was able to emphasize and poke fun at society's foibles. As a contrast to Sherlock Holmes these books point to how we truly are living in a different, and more fun, era. They are certainly silly, but very, very intelligent, and should not be passed up. (...)
Rating: 5
Summary: Literary slapstick in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut
Comment: Douglas Adams, the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, followed up with the most whimsical character I have "met" since reading Vonnegut, and like Vonnegut, creates a slapstick creation for mankind. There are an alien or two, eccentric college professors, a Electric Monk, and many other labor-saving devices to be found in the two books. Roaring funny - if you like slapstick characters - the Dirk Gently books poke fun at everything from Apple Computer to Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity. Since these books were originally published, some of the jokes have aged, but their recent re-discovery was worth the trip all over again.
Dirk Gently is a detective who thinks nothing of charging his clients for a spontaneous trip to the Bahamas, because of his "holistic" approach to investigations. Everything is connected, you see, so he - well, investigates everything. The ride is fast, daring, and you won't anticipate what will happen around the next turn. Adams has penned a carnival ride that approximates the best of Vonnegut, and a joy these many years later.
Having not read the Hitchhiker's Guide books for some time, I will confess that I actually enjoyed the Gently books a bit more, as the writing is much faster paced, the lunacy a little more looney (with the possible exception of "So Long and Thanks for All The Fish"), and the names much easier to remember.
One of my favorite books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Put a fire in the fireplace
Comment: Put a fire in the fireplace, turn down the lights (except the small reading lamp), put on Ravel's "Bolero," grab a sixpack of Guinness Draft in bottles, lie back in your Laz-Y-Boy recliner, open the book, and immerse yourself in an alternate reality, become engulfed in mystery, experience the reading of Colerige as you've never experienced it before, learn from an electric monk, weep for the extinct dodo, consider applications of quantum mechanics even the physicists didn't think of, and pity a living-challenged (i.e., dead) poor soul for whom his demise was not a release but yet another challenge to deal with. And, try to do all this with a straight face, as this is the funniest ghost/time travel/alien/love/historical story you have ever come across. Learn where Bach really got his music. Find out why there's an Albatross in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and not the asteroid Colerige had obviously intended. Discover why Colerige never finished "Kubla Kahn." Find out who was responsible for the dodos' demise. Learn why it's easier to get face powder from the Pleides than from the drugstore. Find out why shooting off is a bad idea. Discover how telephones with big red pushbuttons are integral to solving murders. Douglas Adams is as irreplacible as Heinlein.
Then, read the sequel and never look at your refrigerator the same way again.
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Title: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams ISBN: 1400045088 Publisher: Harmony Books Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Meaning of Liff by Outlet ISBN: 0517553473 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 07 March, 1984 List Price(USD): $2.99 |
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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: The Deeper Meaning of Liff : A Dictionary of Things That There Aren't Any Words for Yet, but Ought to Be by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0517585979 Publisher: Harmony Books Pub. Date: 28 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams ISBN: 0517149257 Publisher: Wings Press Pub. Date: 17 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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