... (Pretty good - still can't decide whether it was meant to be philosophical, humorous, or both.) More than halfway through The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Still working through Anna Karenina. Looks to be a good month for my 1001 list.
WillSteed: You beat me to it - I loved The Stainless Steel Rat when I was a kid. And I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when I was in 6th grade, so I think he'll be fine with it.
I thought about Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy but wasn't sure if is a little too mature for the age. I think I read it in junior high, so maybe.
Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy of course. Robert Rankin - but SF humour seems to come in short story form mostly http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=24512 is a thread over on SF Fans about humour.
There is Strata by Pratchett, Colony by Rob Grant, I will mention Sexmax ...
Just started The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I'm enjoying the humor.
... Note to self - Do NOT get the large popcorn, two large drink deal again.
On a good note, I introduced my nephew to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was listening to it in the car and he asked question after question. I think we have a new fan!! I should buy him a towel! I've ...
... just wasn't sophisticated enough back then... I have matured now, it will probably be a good read." Wow was I wrong!!!
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy I don't understand the Douglas Adams humor.. it just seemed silly.
Next Michael Chrichton just doesn't seem to have what it takes any ...
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Also, The Name of the Rose. I've always been fascinated by the dark ages. Maybe Ivanhoe, too, while I'm in the time traveling mode. Of course, you're at the mercy of the author to have gotten things right.
... bit this year, will try to put it authorwise to avoid repetition, here is a dose of Douglas Adams to start with...
#1 Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy
#2 Restaurant at the end of the universe
#3 Long Dark Teatime of the soul
... bit this year, will try to put it authorwise to avoid repetition, here is a dose of Douglas Adams to start with...
#1 Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy
#2 Restaurant at the end of the universe
#3 Long Dark Teatime of the soul
Stephen King-The Stand
Philip K Dick-Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Frank Herbert-Dune
Douglas Adams-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
I'm just getting back in to audiobooks. Just had a new CD player installed in the car. This afternoon, I finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I never read the book and it always seems to show up on "Top" sci-fi lists. I thought it was pretty good. It was Monty Python in space.
12. The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams. Absolutely hilarious blend of science fiction and comedy that ended far too early for my liking. Bizzare characters and bizzare plot events, the protagonist is very relatable because he is as confused as the reader is throughout. Had ...
... Morrison)
#80: The Russian Debutante's Handbook (by Gary Shteyngart)
#138: The Metamorphosis (by Franz Kafka)
#141: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (by Douglas Adams)
And #144 was a response to #135. Hers, I think, was meant to be A Thousand and One Nights ("A-Mouse-Sand-and-Won- ...
The Handmaid's Tale is my favourite H title, though with all that praise for Hitchhiker's Guide I will have to add that to my TBR list.
Hitchiker's guide. Definitely. If you have not read it, as it appears Nickelini hasn't, you are clearly missing out. :P
Also, it's an easy read, so you won't have trouble crossing it off the list.
... multi-layered. I've seen it many times and still find something new each time I watch it.
Obviously, I'll have to read Hitchhiker's Guide. It appears I'm missing out on something :-)
... made me more aware of the dangers of fundamentalism.
ETA that I very much agree with media1001 and Thalia about Hitchhiker's Guide. I love that book and the entire series.
It's been more than 24 hours, so I will pop the list up to "H":
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is still one of my all time favorite books. One of the few comedic novels that makes me laugh out loud when I read it.
-- M1001.
Still reading:
Oliver Twist
The Eye of Cybele
Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
hemlock--gave my daughter the Widow's war; she raved about it.
Sewing -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Putting my feet up -- Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean. It's hard to read because I want to go to these places so badly.
Bedtime -- Lord Brocktree and, when I'm ...
... ready to start Oliver Twist. I'm also still working through a collection of Emerson's Essays, Faith of the Fallen, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
... of a corrupt bureaucracy: you can do anything if you have the right form for it. I was reminded of the Vogons in the Hitchhiker's Guide of the Galaxy.
... Twenty Years Later, Ole Edvart Rölvaag 39 copies
7. Mamba's Daughters, DuBose Heyward 7 copies
8. The Galaxy, Susan Ertz 1 copy
9. Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin 24 copies
10. Joseph and His Brethren, H. W. Freeman 6 copies
N O N F I C T I O ...
The Resurrection Stone strikes again!
#88 -- Those all sound great, Bib! Let's go!
My first date movie was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (I don't date much.) I didn't realize it was a "date" at the time; it was engineered by some sneaky friends: "Come see HG2G with us! Oh, and S_ ...
... name of right now all come to mind. There have been a few adult fantasies that have also made it in the last few years, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes to mind there, but I think the YA/adult market has always been there, HP helped Hollywood notice the younger market. (Plus they know ...
... (I keep one going for when I'm knitting or sewing), and it's the next book in the series I'm working my way through.
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, because it's the book that my husband and I are currently reading aloud to each other at night, although we've hit a slump and haven't ...
... of Monte Cristo
Adventure: The Three Musketeers
Suspense: Dracula
Science Fiction: The Time Machine
Comedy: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Fantasy: Narnia series
Allegorical Commentary: The Crucible
*anyone know why Dumas books are not working in touchstone?
Ooh, I've read that. How about Douglas Adams's The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, one of my all time favourites?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
...
54. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
55. I Am Morgan LeFay by Nancy Springer
56. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
57. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
58. Life, The Universe and Ev ...
I'v started Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
... the Dozen
Chronicles of Narnia
copper sun
east
Ella Enchanted
Elsewhere
Feed
Fried Green Tomatoes
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Maximum Ride (both of them on this list)
New Moon
The Notebook
Pretties
The Princess Bride
The Princess Diaires
The Re ...
... 451
Feed
Flowers for Algernon
Gathering Blue
The Giver (as a child)
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit
I Am the Messenger
Life of Pi
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (even though this is already included under ...
... Whistle Stop Cafe (2-3 times)
Gilead
The Girls
The Giver
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Handmaid's Tale
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hobbit (2-3 times)
Les Miserables (2 times)
Lord of the Rings (2 times)
The Lovely Bones
Never Let Me Go
NIGHT ...ag ...
... and on two separate occasions people have asked him if I'm a software engineer too, based on the principle that I read The Hitchhikers' Guide and Pratchett.
I do work for a software company, so maybe it's rubbing off. I'd say Drop Table from and be done with it! ^^
It is. Thank you, ptero27!
Hitchiker's Guide always struck me as more of a Ceylon book. I could be wrong, but I think it's somewhere actually cited. And for feel - though not a huge Ceylon fan - that's what I'd go with.
There are other books that come to mind - or other kinds ...
... enjoy are (plus a couple of recommendations):
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, or American Gods
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Margaret Atwood - (seconded!) Alias Grace
Christopher Brookmyre - One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Paolo Coelho ...
Thanks to LT members who raved about Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe, I am being transformed into a totally unexpected world/galaxy/universe/solar system, whatever. Great fun
... sample than this poll, but possibly skewed by multiple votes from uberfans. I'm not telling you how many votes I cast for The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy :p.
It worked as Jody describes, except that only one book per author was allowed in the final Top 20 poll, presumably to stop it ...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
... LOTR movies at this point). Then I discovered there were whole other worlds of literature that had no Elves in it, such as The Ultimate Hitch-hiker's Guide, and Dune (which I still haven't finished).
How come we've all forgotten Douglas Adams and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? That's hilarious, as is the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, but IMHO his writing went downhill after that, so I'd suggest getting those 2 and posting a notice saying something like "Want to read the rest? ...
... - Don't Panic: I actually read this a couple of weeks ago, but forgot about it until I uploaded some new books just now. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of those books I enjoy so much I completely lose time when I read it (infact, I used to get the train to and from school and ...
... the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams.
Unabridged audio version (read by Douglas Adams); the third book in the Hitchhikers series in which Arthur Dent finds himself at Lord's Cricket Ground, still wearing his dressing gown!
... a Mockingbird
The Lord of the Rings*
Animal Farm
A Clockword Orange*
Lord of the Flies
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*
Rebecca*
The Count of Monte Cristo
On my shelf:
The Great Gatsby
1984
Brave New World
Emma
Pride and Predjudice ...
... Lord of the rings 2 lists
20) Le Petit Prince 2 lists
21) Anna Karenina 2 lists
22) Les Miserables 2 lists
23) Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
24) Jane Eyre 2 lists
25) My Antonia 2 lists
25) Stepphenwolf 2 lists
26) The things they carried 2 lists
27) The magic ...
Douglas Adams has 6 books in his Hitchhiker's Guide 'trilogy'.
He also has 2 books involving a same character -- Dirk Gently. What do we call that?
Stephen R. Donaldson has 3 books (which he published under 2 different names) involving a pair of characters -- Mick Axbrewder and Gi ...
I thoroughly enjoyed The hobbit, but not everyone has the same tastes.
I hope you enjoy The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy better, which I also greatly enjoyed. Not so much for the story, but for the superb humour.
Congratulations on your marriage!
That's an interesting discussion about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy upthread. I love the whole series, but I've got to admit, I've never actually read any of it; I've listened to all the books on tape. It never occured to me that it might make a ...
... ones I think folks should read (the great works) because they are important.
1-Possession by A. S. Byatt
2-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4-Persuasion by Jane Austen
5-The Road by Cormac McCarty
6-My Antonia by ...
... interesting read as I haven't read much of the 19th century stuff before.
what's next: Cant' decide:
The hobbit or The Hitchikers guide to the galaxy....
hmmm....
Okay, to edit the books on most lists and to reflect the the new list just added, we have:
War and Peace - 4 lists
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - 4 lists
His dark materials - 3 lists
Lord of the rings - 3 lists
Pride and Prejudice - 3 lists
The secret history - 2 lists
N ...
... break it up into lists of ten or something like that.
So, the books on the most lists are:
War and Peace - 4 lists
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - 4 lists
His dark materials - 3 lists
Lord of the rings - 3 lists
Pride and Prejudice - 3 lists
The secret histroy - 2 ...
How will I restrict this to just 10?? Well, here goes:
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
American Psyc ...
... this was going to go somewhere? I love the Chrestomanci books! My husband just reminded me of Arthur Dent's bathrobe in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I will look at The Empire of Sleep.
Thanks!
... beer, it's still beer...
I feel the books get weaker as the series goes along, maybe it's just the original spark of the Hitchhiker's Guide gets harder to sustain, I'm sure that's an issue with many other series books... enjoyed Dirk Gently and wished there was more...
Despite liking the idea of the series and liking Douglas Adams as a person, I never 'got' The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. The lack of a plot kept me from enjoying it. I did like Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency because there was more a sense of things 'going somewhere'.
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
I did read this whole book. It took me a bit to get into it. Not my favorite genre but I did think some things were funny. I definitely think it was helpful to read the book before seeing the movie.
... ey
2) The belljar
3) Catcher in the Rye
4 The joyluck club
5) War and Peace
6) I know this much is true
7) The hitchikers guide to the galaxy
8) The life of insects
9) Life of Pi
10) The poisonwood bible
... Cunningham
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne ...
... was tough, and probably will change everytime I revisit... no particular order on this.
Possession by A. S. Byatt
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Road by Cormac McCarty
My Antonia by Willa Ca ...
... dy
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kippling
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch ...
Finally done with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Started Shadow of the Wind last night. Don't really know anything about the book or the author.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Hitchhiker's Guide is done and I can't wait to finally read the rest of the series (when i have a chance lol).
2008 book total: 12
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen up next. I'm excited to read this book!
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Very enjoyable! Its hard to believe its taken me about 20 years to get around to reading this!
I think we should have some potted petunias around the patio in honor of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Not sure how ornamental Longbottom leaf is, but it might be fun.
I would also like an apple tree planted with a seed from Narnia.
Where the Red Fern Grows, The Ruins of Gorlan , Here, There Be Dragons, Artemis Fowl, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Eragon, The Giver.
I work in a bookstore and these are some that are popular and that I myself have enjoyed greatly. Plus many others that were already listed!
... relatives are equally crazy. It all comes together in the end though, almost too well!
2008 book total: 11
Picked up Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from the library. I'm sure I read this book when I was younger, and I def. enjoyed the movie.
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
The Card, A Story Of Adventure In The Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
13. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams : An interesting, enjoyable read. I've heard Douglas Adams compared to Vonnegut, and I prefer Vonnegut. Though nice, this was a bit too crazy-science-fiction-y for my taste.
... paperbacks mostly stems from being too poor to afford hardcovers... but I have started buying hardcovers of the essentials (Hitchhiker's Guide with real leather and gold-edged pages! Amazing it was only 19.99!) as gifts for my boys, ones I hope they'll pass on to the next generation...
This month I've also managed to completed a few from the list:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Last Chronicle of Barset - Anthony Trollope
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Currently reading L.M. Alcott's L ...
... Rings 50th Anniversary Edition,
Northanger Abbey,
The Name of the Rose,
The Spy who came in from the Cold and
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
... tell anyone but I look forward to letting my wife drag me to a movie with Huge Grant.
Bill Nighy, I will drag her. Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
Hi Annie!!
If you like British humour at all, you should enjoy it... In the copy I have there's a blurb comparing it to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams which is what made me pick it up in the first place (that and of course being a HUGE "House" fan... :)
... your enjoyment of reading will fade and you'll read less. (I've been there, done that and got the T-shirt)
As far as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy goes I agree and I am a sci-fi fan. This was oringinally done by the BBC for radio. They are great to listen to if you come across them. ...
... some of the best audiobook readers (of their own work, or actors?) I quite liked the bits I heard of Martin Freeman reading A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Not that fun, after all.
"I had to read this, because it seems the entire world has and I had to see what I was missing. I knew I shouldn't have, though, as I am just not a sci-fi reader. I found the humour incredibly contrived and the plot boring. Ju ...
... part, it's exercise here, though I love them for any task I have to look at but don't have to think about. Apricots and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will always be connected in my brain.
I'd read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse (and not in Guildford after all).
... Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams, a sequel of sorts to
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the first book in "a trilogy in four parts"
I read the trilogy long ago and far away, but I read the entire trilogy, all four books, ...
Just thought I'd point out that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in a "trilogy of five". Not sure if you just read an old edition or what, but the fifth volume is titled, Mostly Harmless.
... by Douglas Adams, a sequel of sorts to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency which is also on the list a long with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the first book in "a trilogy in four parts".
Now, "Hitchhiker's Guide" is something of a genre classic and undoubtley deserves a ...
I started Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy yesterday, and it is absolutely nutty. Very funny so far, and if nothing else, original and entertaining.
... cookies/temp files, and look). Thanks for pointing that out.
EDIT #2: Well, that fixed it in one case, but looking at Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I'm seeing more of the same problem (blue flags in the middle of flagless reviews).
... of Mexican food that included 2 margaritas, knowing full well this gave me license to buy anything. ;)
I came out with A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Golden Compass, the latter inspired by the group read here that I missed. :/
The "TBR" list that I deny having just got a ...
... The Raw Shark Texts. I am about 100 pages in to it and I'm still not sure where it is going.
I am also a newcomer to The Hitchhiker's Guide series. So far I have read only the first two, but am determined to continue the series this year. BTW have to agree with rocketjk, the BBC version ...
... James Herriot's Dog Stories which became be favorite book for years.
When I was in Middle school, I discovered The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and Kurt Vonnegut; in High School I found out about Henry Millerand John Steinbeck.
Surprisingly enough, I currently out-r ...
... 1st.
So far this year, I've read:
1. The Bourne Identity
2. The Devil in the Junior League
3. Persuasion
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. Pride and Prejudice
and
6. Emma
7. The Pearl
Edited for better organization.
... read. I was living in New Orleans when it came out, and boy did Toole hit the nail on the head with his portrayal! Whoa!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is funny, too, but the best version of it is not the book or the movie or even the old TV version, but the BBC radio version, which was ...
Finished Persuasion and about to finish my re-read of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I think I'll read The Devil in the Junior League and re-read Sense and Sensibility next.
I consider myself a die-hard feminist, but Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is one of my favorite books. In fact, I've noticed that a LOT of sci-fi, even written by men, depicts societies that are much more egalitarian than real life.
If you want to read some feminist sci-fi, I recommend ...
... Fiction was Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove. Since then I've gone on to read his Timeline-191 series. I was given Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last christmas and I enjoyed reading it. Since starting my second semester in College my Communications class has exposed me to a ton of Sc ...
...
To be fair, I haven't read much science fiction. A few classic titles like 1984 and Brave New World. I tried to read Hitchhiker's Guide but couldn't do it. The feminist in me just bristles at science fiction. These authors can imagine such vivid worlds so different from ours. Yet, men ...
... of Narnia
Vivian Stamper from Sometimes a Great Notion
Dana from Octavia E. Butler's Kindred
Trillian from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
352 would be the start of the science fiction chapter and the book that belongs to that number is: the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams.
Funny, I didn't notice that there was a number missing on that list before, this actually means I have read one more book from the list.
... I expected a laugh a lot comedy and, while I did laugh out loud several times, it also had some sadness.
I had tivo'd Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and finished it last night. I haven't read the book (been meaning to). I did enjoy the movie very much and now plan to get to the book ...
Lizt - The Dirk Gently maybe - quirky humour, but not as SF as Hitchhikers
The rest of FForde's work as you mostly enjoyed the Eyre affair. They don't get any more literery but are still quite fun.
Watership down and Wind in the willows as more delightful children's ish tales of ...
Many people assume that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science-fiction book about a fictional encyclopaedia. But if you've never been to a dolphin show (or even if you have been to a dolphin show, but don't speak dolphinese) you should know that the
Just finished The Pearl. Sad.
Started and read the introduction and the first 3 chapters of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for my book club.
I think I'll start Persuasion as well. I need something where good people end up happy and in love.
Book #1 - (unread)
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
First time, believe it or not! One of my six reading categories is 'books everyone but me has already read': this was one of them.
I thought it was clever, and some of it funny. I don't join the large crowd of die-hard fans though. ...
I just finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The River King by Alice Hoffman. I just started The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly and Third Degree by Greg Iles.
... only have short stacks in your link though, I'm sure we can think up longer ones.
Earth
City
Cities in flight
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Stranger in a Strange land
Foreigner
Queen of Angels
The Mote in God's eye
Sundiver
Snow Crash
The Dying Light (Evergen ...
... and marriage.
I'm going to start Steinbeck's The Pearl. I might have to give it up for a while. I should start The hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy for The Belles' book club soon.
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
... of Reason by Thomas Paine
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind (audiobook)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
To Infinity and Beyond by Eli Maor
Journey Through Genius by William Dunham
Will start ...
Reading: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje for forced required reading for school.
Secretly Reading: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in my ultimate omnibus edition
Hope To Be Reading: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco before I have to give it back to the library
Should ...
... Anne of Windy Willows by LM Montgomery
3. Book everyone else but me has already read (there seem to be a lot of those): Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
4. 'Buzz' book much recommended in LT and elsewhere: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
5. Classic: The Warden by Anth ...
... It's unpleasantly like being drunk.'
'What's so unpleasant about being drunk?'
'You ask a glass of water.'
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
(On a side note, I've never noticed the double 'h' in 'hitchhiker' before. What a wierd word.)
... by Thomas Paine
A collection of Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Temple of the Winds by Terry Goodkind
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
And this week I've started:
Mr. Parker Pyne, Detective by Agatha Christie
To Infinity and Beyo ...
... Vertigo, The Music of Chance
Ian McEwan: Amesterdam, The Cement Garden
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
The Virgin in the Garden, A.S. Byatt
Franny and Zooey, ...
... whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
... have the spark quality I thought it would. It wasn't a bad book - it was very cleverly written (think Macbeth meets The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), and funny. Pratchett is a hoot when he's on. I just found this book hard to read. It was extremely slow in the beginning, and I ...
... is a series of stories told by a Robotic Psychologist; the underlying theme is the danger of relying on technology.
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Listened to this one in the car as well. It held our attention the whole way. A great story, lots of fun and ...
... G. Frankfurt, a succinctly titled serious essay.
What's Wrong with my Snake, for clarity.
And the iconic title The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy can hardly be beaten.
... Moore, Terry Goodkind, Connie Willis, and Melanie Rawn.
FAVORITE BOOK(s): My favorite all-time books are Good Omens, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dragon Prince, Neverwhere, Absolute Sandman, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Doomsday Book ...
FAVORITE DRINK: apple martini or a ...
... (thanks!). Here are a few titles I think are sci-fi/fantasy:
Contact
The Handmaid's Tale
Neuromancer
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Interview with the Vampire
Slaughterhouse Five
2001: A Space Odyssey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Solaris
Found ...
I love used books, there's always some that I'd love to own, where I wonder why someone threw such a book out. Such as Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Lovely Bones, two of which I got for quite a lovely price.
...
The Double Helix
The Nature of the Judicial Process
Word Freak
The Grass Harp
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Gaudy Night
Nights at the Circus
Barrel Fever
The Magic Lantern
...
... by that novel and after passing my English exams (and reading some more SF like The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy which not only blew me away, but changed my perspective on everything from life, the universe to the rest!) i went on to read the ...
... books by Mark Twain (the four Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn books, and Life on the Mississippi), five by Douglas Adams (reread The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series for the half-dozenth time or more), four by Isaac Asimov (his two straight mystery novels, A Whiff of Death and Murder in the ...
... Kate Chopin
Timbukto- Paul Auster
The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood
Rabbit is Rich- John Updike
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}- Douglas Adams
Rabbit Redux- John Updike
Rabbit, Run- John Updike
Cannery Row- John Steinbeck
All Quiet On the Wester ...
A towel from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Simply because I trust Ford Prefect . Perhaps more than I should. Does a Fair Witness Stranger in a Strange Land count as an accessory? Because I would love to have my very own Jubal Harshaw. Then again, if I am allowed a human accessory, I would ...
... fiction started when I was 10 and read A Rag, a bone and a hank of hair by Nicholas Fisk; the same year I found Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy at home, but at that age I didn't quite understand what I was reading!
I also think that being brought up in a home where Radio 4 was ...
I have to say Fall of the House of Usher is one of my all-time favorites because I just love Poe. I also enjoyed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Very funny stuff.
... broken) by John Steinbeck in high school cinched my love for actual adult literature since I had been reading nothing but The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series for several years.
... indeed!
For you AND Karen:
Never forget the complementary sad struggle with replicators which Arthur Dent endured in The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy...
I never really 'got' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I admire Douglas Adams a great deal and liked Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency quite a bit. But Hitchhiker's suffered I guess from its radio show origins. I liked the characters, loved the ideas, but what I read was just a ...
... it seems:
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone
The Liar
A Collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Oh dear, how to choose... I'll name a few at any rate:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Quintet by Douglas Adams - his writing style just cracks me up.
Persuasion by Jane Austen - just read this one, and I think I liked it better than P&P, S&S AND Emma. If you ever want proof that people ...
... in 4th grade, and knew I was really "home." After that, the teacher who recommended The Hobbit loaned me his copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I was really hooked.
... la
There were a couple that I know I've started, but I couldn't remember if I'd finished, such as Slaughterhouse 5 and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was pleased to see that several books on my reading list were listed, so I would've naturally made progress, even if I hadn't ...
The first science fiction I read (and loved) as a junior high school student was The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I know they're a bit dated by now, and there's been the major movie, but they're just insane enough to overcome all that.
... one, but it's my audio book, and I only listen to it when I'm sewing and such, and I haven't done much of that lately.
-The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams: reading this one aloud with the husband, as I think I've mentioned before, and so it's taking forever, ...
... of Joy Alice Walker
2.Beloved Toni Morrison
3.Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
5.Interview With a Vampire Anne Rice
6.Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut
7.Herzog Saul Bellow
8. ...
I am still plugging away at The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I've read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (and loved both!), but I'm finding Life, the Universe and Everything to be a bit slow, and not up to ...
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
And by a sheer miracle I have touchstoned every single one!
I have already read Hitchhiker's guide but it cost $2.50 at a second hand store so I thought I'd ...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
... congrats AM, thanks for taking it for a test drive for us!
Back to the first question, which book do I add first?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, natch! If I ever do get one (not at $400!) I will definitely have the cover embossed with DON'T PANIC in large friendly letters.
Hmm ...
I have no idea whether it's downloadable or not, but The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, narrated by Douglas Adams is a lot of fun.
I have to third Good Omens. I'll also throw in Lamb and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as well!
For my I-really-shouldn't-be-laughing, but I am, there's always Choke. The hardest part of recounting what was funny at work was making sure that we weren't discussing certain passages ...
#52 wisewoman I love that book! Hitchhiker's Guide is hilarious. I never expected to enjoy a sci-fi book the way that I enjoyed that one, but it is great. Glad you are enjoying it just as much.
Reading Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time and enjoying it. It reminds me of Alice in Wonderland a little. "Inspired lunacy," as one reviewer put it.
... as a Young Man
Animal Farm
A Clockwork Orange
A Farewell to Arms
The Scarlet Letter
Beloved
Herzog
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
and Charlotte's Web
in my TBR pile are the following:
Catch 22
The Sound and the Fury
The Awakening
A Prayer for Owen Meany ...
... by Patricia C. Wrede
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series by Douglas Adams
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Kushiel Series by Jacqueline Carey
Honorable Mentions :)
Ne ...
...
3. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
4. Denial by Keith Ablow
5. Projection by Keith Ablow
6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
7. Misery by Stephen King
8. Dirty Work by Stuart Woods
9. Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins
...
... wonderful wonderful! It's so much fun to read! And another wonderful thing, reading aloud with your husband at night (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy sounds like a nice book to read aloud too)!
I started Middle Age: A Romance by Joyce Carol Oates yesterday. Had a ...
... it's my audio book and I only listen to it when I'm knitting or sewing, and of late that has been sadly not very often;
-The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), which I've read before and is great, but is taking so long because it's the current Read-Aloud-with-My Hus ...
What about Marvin in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
... Guide wasn't much more than 50,000 words, for example, and padding it out would have been a disaster.
Padding The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... Isn't that what the sequels were for? Ouch!
book 3 could be Hitchiker's Guide to the galaxy where the availability of tea, and the neatness of digitial watches, along with "deep thought" are plot items. Not essential or key, but there.
Book2 the top image is King's College| University of Cambridge| Cambridge| Cambridgeshire| England| UK. ...
... separately in LT as a tag, and came up with:
Ender's game by Orson Scott Card (561)
Dune by Frank Herbert (549)
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams (523)
The ultimate hitchhiker's guide by Douglas Adams (358)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (344)
Speaker for ...
... there:
Dune by Frank Herbert (1503)
Ender's game by Orson Scott Card (1343)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (1037)
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams (1187)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (783)
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein (853)
The left hand ...
... and overwhelming misogyny of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, for example, bothers me a lot more.
I'm thinking that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy might actually manage to go down as a classic. Natalie Babbit's Tuck Everlasting definitely ought to, as well as The Mouse and His C ...
... to find an 18th century dress to be Elizabeth Bennet, or if I can just find a towel maybe I can dress as a character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
... Crime
The Talented Mr. Ripley because Patricia Highsmith created an amazing villian in Tom Ripley.
(3) Comedy
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy because Douglas Adams makes me laugh out loud and think at the same time...of course, mostly I am thinking about how loud I am ...
... about to start our Spring holidays here in Melbourne. I'm looking forward to a 14 hour drive up north so have borrowed A hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shooting Star by Peter Temple to listen to on the way. (Its hard to find something that me, the husband and the teenage boys ...
and for methods of travel:
The Lilac Bus
From a Buick 8
All the Pretty Horses
The Hitchhiker
Gone With the Wind
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Hobbit
Wyeth At Kuerners
The Longest Day
Beowulf
The Ancestor's Tale
The Demon-Haunted World
Naked
61. Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
62. Dune by Frank Herbert
63. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
64. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
65. Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff
66. The Brading Collection by Patricia Wentworth
67. ...
... of Narnia, a single book which does not fit into the series mentioned. Similarly I own a boxed set of individual Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy books that I plan to catalogue under the box ISBN, not individually. Also, Maus can come in either a single volume or two individual ...
... Christie
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind (audiobook)
Just started:
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - this one's a re-read for me: I'm reading it aloud with my husband who's never read it before, and it's ...
... This is how I reread the books (again) in preparation for book 7 - which I also have and will listen to in the future.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
There might be more of them that I can't remember....
Currently listening to:
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
...
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
... you know that their data can be inaccurate and you may wish to check some of the entries and edit them.
Examples are your Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams. Your copy simply has Adams as the author, which is why it's not joined up with the rest of the copies on LT. And some ...
... start with the books I have read in the past month.
They are:
snowcrash by neal stephenson
The Deathly Hollows
citzens of the galaxy by robert heinlein
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by mario acevedo
The way of the peaceful warrior
Are we looking at the same tag page? It occurs 24 times for Hitchhiker's Guide, and no more than once on any given work not by Douglas Adams.
I've just been to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to have a look and indeed 42 is light, but if you click on it that appears to be correct as the tag 42 is used a lot outside of Hitchhiker's, for quite a broad range of works. If I understand rightly that's salience in action
In the tag cloud for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, for instance, the tag 42 is light. Based on salience, it should certainly be bold. The lightness is something different--Tim mentioned it somewhere as a new thing, but I can't for the life of me find the thread.
... doors closed except for one at the end. I almost turned around to get my 6'2" boy to come inside with me! All I can say is, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has it right. Always carry a towel. Those of you who have seen the Ultimatum know what I mean.
... I had already posted something here... I'm having the strongest sense of déjá-vu...)
Kudoz to The Hobbit and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!!!
Another one:
September 15th was Kevin's birthday, and he got exactly what he wanted: a Sun.
From The Sun Dog by ...
I think Dallas has the best one. Atlanta's is good as well.
The Lovely Bones?! *vomits*
Only in Jersey. Although Hitchhiker's DOES make things better.
... Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Holden Caufield - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Zaphod Beeblebrox - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Those are all the book characters from my 'official' list. I have way too many thoughts.
(OK, WHY are some ...
... of tagging. This is especially bad when it's just wrong: the tag "42" is certainly not unimportant in the tag cloud for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and if the tag cloud just took into account number and obscurity of tags, like it used to, problems like that wouldn't occur.
#30 Fairy cakes? OOOOooooOOOOooooh, I'm going to have to gOOgle that! I always assumed it was a made-up confection from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
Book attachments, huh? I've owned 4 hardcover copies of The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy omnibus, and am down to one copy, because of my tendancy to lend it.
When I read Arthur Dent, I think automatically of the character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Looking at the article on Arthur Dent in Wikipedia, it is stated that Douglas Adams did know about the puritan Arthur Dent, but no one knows whether the name that ...
19. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
I finished The Eyre Affair yesterday. I liked it, kind of a mix between a Sue Grafton mystery and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It was a interesting way to see the Jane Eyre novel.
Also finishing up American Gods and The Road in the next day or two.
I had an eventful weekend so ...
... According to Bif (another book that made for an awkward morning commute)
Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Also, and this could just be me, but Jhonen Vasquez's comics always make me howl.
27. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Well, I'm now hooked on Douglas Adams having just finished reading The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy & am now working on getting the rest of the -trilogy or..um quadology or what ever you call it! Really zipped through it & ran out of book before i ran out of weekend! Gottta get to the ...
... sophomore and junior years in high school, 1988, my summer reading list choices included The Lord of the Rings and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I read both series, loved them and have recently re-read them.
... of a huge pile of apricots today which had to be put up. At the library, I had an inspiration: audio book! So I checked out The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, read by Douglas Adams. That made the apricot chore go by so fast I finished before Mr. Adams was done reading to me. I need more ...
... me, and this probably wasn't even intentional, was that the character of Jack really rather reminded me of Arthur Dent (of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and much of his inner dialog made me smile just from the familiar feeling I got from it.
All in all I did enjoy this book and would ...
Brimstone by Douglas Preston and LINCOLN Child
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas ADAMS
The Blind Man of Seville by Robert WILSON
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JACKSON
Naples at Table : Cooking in Campania by ARTHUR Schwartz
The Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe
The Nine Planets
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Star of the Sea
Out of the Blue
I'd forgotten just how short each of Douglas Adams' books are. I finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy yesterday and am now about halfway through The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I'll probably go through the entire series this week, which will leave me room to go back and ...
I'm in Norway - my first visit: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson.
... at my shelves, trying to decide between The Book on the Bookshelf (yeah, I know, from one technical book to another) or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in an effort to just be somewhat mindless this week. Since work is kicking my butt, I'm leaning toward mindless.
... Something Wicked This Way Comes at that age, although that's more of a fantasy work.
After that was Ender's Game, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I, Robot, and any I could get my hands on by Robert A. Heinlein.
... Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - My favorite book in the world! It had me laughing out loud a lot!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, by Douglas Adams - I loved all the books!
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ...
I'm rereading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, in preparation for Towel Day on Friday!
Here's a taste:
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this ...
I know this is completely random, but has anyone heard the BBC radio broadcasts of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? They are so incredible! I have been on a quest for them and cannot find.
... fans carry a towel with them throughout the day. The towel is a reference to Adams's popular science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Other possible dates were 11 February (42nd day of the year), 11 March (Birthday), 2 April (4/2 using American date-writing ...
I haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for years and years. I'd forgotten *shakes head in bewilderment* (how could I forget??) what a delight it is. Thanks Groo for that excerpt, I definitely have to read them all again - SOON!
And yup, count me in, I'll have my black towel on ...
... I wanted to reach into the book and THROTTLE Dolores. She remains one of my least favourite literary characters.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I don't exactly hate it, but I don't really get the hype either. I found it rather blah. I was a bit ...
#37 and 39, I tried a couple of times, but couldn't get into the Hitchhiker's guide. But I decided to listen to it and now I'm on the 4th book. Much better as a story being told to you.
#6, I also hated Gone with the Wind, Scarlett drove me around the bend! But this was in high school and ...
... books like The Memory Keeper's Daughter and anything by Jodi Picoult.
Adding works by Terry Prachett. Also The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I cannot stand science fiction.
#23 no-body is ever able to disprove anything particularly not god
From Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy "proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing".
It can be demonstrated that (any) god, has not interveniend in this particular event. But even if you show that for every event in ...
... for pointing out their referencing system!
So here's my list with reference links.
The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
2001: a Space Od ...
... like.
Here I go:
1) The Sandman - Neil Gaiman. Just started reading these. I'm on volume five and I LOVE it.
2) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams. I refer to the original book here. It's the funniest book I've read.
3) Foundation - Isaac Asimov. Have ...
... the last word of the title)
Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad by Leona Rostenberg
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams
Almost Home by Jonathan Schwartz
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
The ...
Anything by Douglas Adams:
The Hitchhiker's "Trilogy":
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
The Dirk Gently Series:
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detec ...
... svenska, en som består av de 4 första böckerna och en som består av alla fem.
Just nu finns båda volymerna samlade i Liftarens guide till galaxen.
Om de som har någon av dessa samlingsvolymer skriver i titelfältet om det är del 1-4 eller del 1-5 så skulle man kunna skilja dessa från ...
... oups?
Faith does not require evidence, which is why it is faith rather than knowledge. The Parable of the Babel fish from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
I can't actually be more helpful than that.
... a fascinating historical read. It falls more in the "time travel" than it does in "other world though."
and of course The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy!!!
... Adams - Mostly Harmless -- repeat
Douglas Adams - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish -- repeat
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- repeat
Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- repeat
G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who was Thursday
Ph ...
#7 - OF COURSE Hitchhiker's, how did I miss THAT!
Also, Gone South!!! I love everything McCammon ever wrote, great choice!
... whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
"It was hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children."
Gone South - Robert McCammon
And the ...
... be combined. Of the list of "most often tagged", those three tags have very many books in common, mainly Dune books and Hitchhiker's books. Whatever you personally think about the meaning of the terms, the majority of the taggers are using them the same way.
What I don't ...
I read the first three Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books in high school and loved them, my son loves them now :-)
... but thats not hard with roughly a hundred books invovled. Wait'll I list THOSE suckers in my library!!
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie
DH collects Terry Pratchett and David Eddings My mother ...
... of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and although I haven't listened to Holes yet, it's an excellent book to read.
Maybe The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? I think that would be ok for a 7th grader. (Although now I look back and see that he's 10--could be a little above his head.)
... it with someone special?
In the "A" category, I've owned 4 copies of the complete omnibus volumes of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. after twice lending it out and not gettin git back, I eventually bought 2 copies of the omnibus at the same time, one for ME and ME ALO ...
... pages or so with the sort of formatting they use now.
When you have trades, hardbacks, etc., things vary.
I have seen The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy be 160 and 260 pages in a newer book - so more pages in newer books at times I think because of spacing and type - i.e. more of it and ...
Hitchhiker's Guide works. Even Hitchhiker's works. But you need the apostrophe.
... what else to try
Foreigner is fast and third on the list.
Hitchhikers guide is sometimes tricky. Lets try again Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy yep. you do have to spell the title out in full....
not unreasonable, if you can spell, and if you know the full title.
Mind you talk is ...
... choose a single best book.
A few of my favorites, in no particular order:
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Nineteen Eighty-Four by Geo ...
Then there's "To boldly split infinitives that no man has split before."
From the Hitchhiker's Guide.
P.S. I want to categorically state that I don't seek to intentionally split infinitives.
... so well, it had good ideas in a fun world. They just couldn't keep it going. Eddings I kept on with.
Earthsea, Hitchhiker's Donaldson I enjoyed so they don't count as struggled through. #17" annoyed to tears by the narrator of the audiobook." The read it as a real book or find a ...
... Speaker for the Dead OK, and nearly did not manage to finish Xenocide. Bought the fourth but has yet to open it up.
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. I thought the first one funny, but I cannot remember if I ever finished the second one. Only tried his other books after several people ...
I don't think I've quit too many series, but then I've like most I started. I wouldn't read the books after The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, just not in the mood more than that I didn't like them. Also quit the Left Behind after the first book, so I guess the answer is, I quit reading it ...
... it. I'll probably still read the last one when it comes out just to find out what happens.
I also wasn't impressed with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and only read the first two, but I'll probably try the later ones eventually just to see.
I read the first three Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books in the desperate hope that I'd actually get something out of the later books. Sadly, it hasn't happened so far, but I'll probably read the other two books sooner or later.
... want to even start looking at it. Someone has decided to combine all the Original radio scripts into the book version of Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy despite the fact that they are very very different. Its not an audio production of the book, its not even an abridged reading of the book. I ...
... series tag and view library by Tags. This is how I've got it set up, have a look at my catalog. basically Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy is tagged:
Ada, HHG01, et al
Ada, HHG02, other tags
etc.
Providing you add the tags when you add the books its quite ...
... I just can't get past ten pages. I don't like his style at all!
As far as individual books go, I know everyone loves Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I could barely finish it when I had to read it for my book club. I have never been able to read science fiction. The Handmaid's Tale ...
... course, I'm as much a fan of Literary Fiction as SF/Fantasy. I often list as my two favorite novels: Les Miserables and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
As to television productions of literary novels, I think primarily of Masterpiece Theater productions...which were fairly successful.
...
... exact phrase has slipped my mind. Anyone got the precise wording? edit See Post #27 with thanks, from of course Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy
I like Robert Rankin, if u dont know his work it is a little like Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Monty Python and a very angry Ben Elton, extremely dry british humour and heavy on the irony that takes the mickey out of just about everything while at the same time delivering a message.
As for ...
... g.
As far as older books that I've read for the first time and found utterly disappointing: Streetcar Named Desire and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are right up there. As is Handmaid's Tale.
... or most of us, use "humor" for all of them.
See post 17. Looking only at humour you don't see 129 of 256 coples of The Hitchhiker's Guide.
Will we want new statistics for "shared books but not shared sense of or spelling of humor/humour"?
Where you can click to narrow down the ...
All they need is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
... are currently America, the book and Me talk pretty one day, while the top "humour" books are 1066 and all that and The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. When combining tags you shouldn't just be looking for a similar meaning, but also a similar usage, and it's easy to see that here that' ...
Try The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. LT can be fussy about wording and even cases sometimes.
... goes away rather than any actual heroic deeds. The two best examples of this I can think of offhand are Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the Bagginses from Tolkien's books.
So there you have it. Apologies for a rather pretentious sounding post, but Avaland's ...
Had a go at Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but the experience left me in need of a pint more than it did a cup of tea. My tastes lean more toward John LeCarre and Graham Greene, who can spin yarns that would warm up a street urchin.
I'm not afraid of the heat; I much prefered the movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to either the book or the BBC television series. I've said it and I'm not afraid.
My bottom books I read in 2006 are:
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which my book group read. I am glad I read it, because it is one of those books it seems I should have read. But I really HATE science fiction and really couldn't get into this book. It was okay for about the first twenty ...
... I find those sorts of books very off-putting.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams. I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in late 2005; I was very disappointed, but thought I'd read on in the hopes that the series got better. It didn't, but apparently I'm ...
... Pelham Grenville as the Master. Imagine if Douglas Adams had written nearly 100 books all of equal quality to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
Like Evelyn Waugh, Adams was in awe of Plum ... "Wodehouse is the greatest comic writer ever." In a radio broadcast ...
... Days
1/7/2006 I Capture the Castle
2/12/2006 Pudd'nhead Wilson
3/19/2006 The Center of Everything
4/16/2006 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5/21/2006 Big Weather by Svenfold (touchstones not working on this one)
6/18/2006 Godless by Pete Hautman, not Anne Coulter!
7/23 ...
Someone lent me Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and I still haven't gotten to it yet. I hear it's right up my alley. When it finally happens, I'll take it with tea!
... the groups a little, may I say, I salute you! And Douglas Adams, tea lover, I honor your memory. ;)
I loved The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and was lucky - a friend bought me The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when the film came out, so I could read them all ...
... them up! But, for the most part, I have enjoyed the selections.
I don't particularly like science fiction, so for me The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was not my favorite. It's a book I really hated, but am still glad I read it. My favorite book we've read was probably On Beauty. I ...
... Days
1/7/2006 I Capture the Castle
2/12/2006 Pudd'nhead Wilson
3/19/2006 The Center of Everything
4/16/2006 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5/21/2006 Big Weather by Svenfold (touchstones not working on this one)
6/18/2006 Godless by Pete Hautman, not Anne Coulter!
7/23 ...
Aaaah yes, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays, they're fantastic. I'm glad they recently finished them off, too.
Thank you for the reminder, Darrow, I think I might just put them on my iPod tonight :-)
... Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, and The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey.
Oh, and new copies of Mists of Avalon and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, to replace copies that got lent to friends and ruined.
I try to limit myself to one pass through the Library Book Sale per month, ...
... except Lord of the Flies and To Build A Fire. Jack London just never did it for me.
On my own, I was reading the Hitchhiker's Guide series, a lot of Ray Bradbury, probably some Michael Crichton, Madeleine L'Engle, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Christopher Pike, The We ...
... the end of the year. One of my friends at work keeps telling me I need to check it out.
My favorite single book has been Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That's a book I've read several times and it never gets old.
Last month we read all five books in Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Whew. I'm taking a break for a month from the next month's book, and reading Lethem's "The Fortress of Solitude."
... to Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer. Not as good as Artemis Fowl but still entertaining.
I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe ages ago, but wanted to reread it and read the rest of the series. Problem is, I keep getting stuck at the part when Beeblebrox shows ...
I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe ages ago, but wanted to reread it and read the rest of the series. Problem is, I keep getting stuck at the part when Beeblebrox shows up. The same thing happened when I first read the book and I had to force myself to continue. Once I did, it was ...
The original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is still my favourite, no question. I think the later ones tend to get a bit tired and less creative.
A few "of courses":
Hitchhiker's Guide
Tristram Shandy - currently reading, and loving it - keep having to make notes to myself in the cover of all the delightful pages
Leave it to Psmith and Carry on, Jeeves are the only two Wodehouse I own, but I plan to have a life-long affair with ...
... and more begin to resemble the most popular books on the site. This makes sense statistically, but it is still nice to see Hitchhiker's Guide beating out Harry Potter.
A few responses:
pechmerle: Leacock's high on my list now. Thanks for your thoughts.
Mendoza: I totally dig the ...
... for the play, and so therefore also A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters. I think I read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in fourth grade (nine years old), and Dragonsong and Dragonsinger at around the same time. After that I hit the YA shelves full-force (f ...
... Narnia/cecilyk's (spoilsport :P)
Rappin' Ronnie Reagan/jadziadax: Sorceror's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, Jane Eyre, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Wrinkle in Time, Ender's Game, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and So Long And Thanks For All the Fish, Speaker for ...
Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. I'm in love with Zaphod.
... to hear it from Sagan himself.
Next I plan on reading Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams. I loved The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I'm interested in hearing his thoughts about animals on the verge of being extinct. I had to order it from Amazon, so I have to be ...
