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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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MrOogieBoogie
BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
I actually enjoyed The Restaurant at the End of the Universe more than the first book.
Same here!
Same. And pretty much all the books are worth the read. There are some great moments in every book and they are short books, so you won't be wasting much time if you end up disliking them.
edit. movie was horrible tho. Maybe BBC produced series would be best course for the material.
Metallix87
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I really enjoyed the film and would also love a sequel, but I'm fine with the way it ended. Sometimes, it's best to leave well enough alone.
OricWindstar
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Agreed. I think everything with
the Ruler of the Universe
weemadarthur
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They're all fine except Mostly Harmless, which I feel just sucks.
Or you could just watch the venerable BBC TV series.
SigmasonicX
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For the other books, I quite liked several parts of Life, the Universe, and Everything, but I'm not a fan of the resolution. So Long and Thanks For All the Fish also had some good parts but was overall rather dull, I felt, and I didn't like the conclusion. I probably would have liked Mostly Harmless if it just let Arthur be in peace, and I particularly liked the sequence of Ford rampaging through the Guide building, but no, instead there was weird drama with Trillian and Arthur's daughter and then everyone died.
I haven't read And Another Thing..., but I hear it was merely OK.
I haven't read And Another Thing..., but I hear it was merely OK.
I wouldn't mind another film, I feel it was the weakest adaptation (loss of jokes for one), but the great thing about the series is that it's tradition for each version to tell the same story slightly differently. The books aren't the same as the radio series, which differ from the tv show, which differ from the game, etc...
Weirdly, I even quite liked Mos Def as Ford Prefect even though I originally thought it was a bizarre casting choice
Weirdly, I even quite liked Mos Def as Ford Prefect even though I originally thought it was a bizarre casting choice
mightynine
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Definitely diminishing returns after the third book.
When I was growing up, it was a summer ritual to get the trilogy from the library. Still read the whole series at least once a year - yes, all six books!
When I was growing up, it was a summer ritual to get the trilogy from the library. Still read the whole series at least once a year - yes, all six books!
Screaming Meat
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Definitely. Marvin The Paranoid Android versus a Tank is one of the funniest scenes in the quadrilo-- quintilo-- uh... series.
Masquerader
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IMO, it's the best of the books, and it should have had a movie. The third is so boring, though. :c The fourth is highly underrated, though.
FTFY
Beeblebrox
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Oh please, it's trilogy in five parts
And yes OP, read all 5, it's worth it (the last one and its ending are kinda weird tho, but still worth it).
ARGH, COME ON!
Screaming Meat
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haha!
Oh please, it's trilogy in five parts
To quote the good book:
"Bullshit." thought Ford.
FormallyMegadrive
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This shocked me. Then I saw it. Now I can't imagine it differently.
lukeskymac
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I didn't really enjoy So Long, but the first three books are all gems. Mostly Harmless would have been better without the unnecessary downer ending, something Adams himself admitted.
equippedwithtowel
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Movie had flawless casting. Too bad about everything else. It could definately come back as a miniseries if they managed to pull Sam Rockwell and Alan Rickman again.
What?! How have I missed this? I really enjoyed the BBC version of Hitchhiker's, now I know what I must watch.
richardhawk
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Griffith Observatory here in LA has a cafe in it called "The Cafe at the End of the Universe". I thought this thread was about that.
BobTheFork
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I love the book but I haven't read it as many times as the first.
I would have loved a movie sequel but I think that ship sailed quite some time ago.
I would have loved a movie sequel but I think that ship sailed quite some time ago.
Singularity42
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I'm a sucker for these books. Have been since I was 12. It's a ritual of mine to read through the series every summer.
I wish we would have gotten more movies. But such is Hollywood. I doubt we'll ever see another.
I do like the suggestion of a netflix series. With a decent budget it might be able to do the books justice.
I wish we would have gotten more movies. But such is Hollywood. I doubt we'll ever see another.
I do like the suggestion of a netflix series. With a decent budget it might be able to do the books justice.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I made a Hitchiker reference last week and no-one got it :/
Someone commented on a picture of an ice covered lighthouse that it looked like a "hairy cake" and I replied "Is that a piece of fairy cake? I'm famished"
Someone commented on a picture of an ice covered lighthouse that it looked like a "hairy cake" and I replied "Is that a piece of fairy cake? I'm famished"
Same here! I read them out of order and read this one first in pocket book form when I was 10. This was more of an adventure than the firsts journey of that makes any sense. I really really love this book series, but this is the one I always go back to for a days reading.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Marvin making the police ship so depressed it commits suicide may have been THE best part of the entire series. Gotta love Marvin.
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