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Life, the Universe and Everything
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Author's last name
A-Adams, Douglas Life the Universe and Everything
B-Babbitt, Natalie Tuck Everlasting
C-Carcaterra, Lorenzo Sleepers
D-Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol
E-Evanovich, Janet Plum Lucky
F-Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Beautiful and Damned
G-Garden, Nancy Annie on ...
Used:
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
Invisible Cities bu Italo Calvino
The Hippopotamus by S ...
... Cwidder by Diana Wynne Jones
* Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
* Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
* Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
* When Satan Wore a Cross by Fred Rosen
* Jinx High by Mercedes Lackey
* Pauline by Anonymous (wr ...
34. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Bookbugg~ I liked The White Tiger, I thought it was a good book...although not really sure it deserved the Man Booker Prize. I will check out A Fine Balance too, thanks for the suggestion! I also want to read Q and A by Vikas Swarup ( ...
... by Oates
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230. Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Adams
231. Life, the Universe and Everything by Adams
232. So Long and Thanks for All the Fish by Adams
233. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Bartlett
... poetry that contain at least 50 new-to-me poems.
5. Science Fiction and Fantasy: Titan, A.E., Planet of the Apes, Life, the Universe, and Everything , To Visit the Queen, Mistborn and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish are on my shelves.
6. Books set in Australia -- I have Euc ...
I'm so glad I found this thread (via the Kitchen Sink thread). This sounds perfect for me. I don't want to read 100 books in a year!
(Thanks for the tip; I've set up my own thread for my 10 categories -- although this time I absolutely could NOT get one of the touchstones to come up right!)
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Three books on Judaica
1. Choosing Judaism (10/18/09)
2. To Life
3. Jewish Holidays
... my own copy)
The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham (again, so that I have my own copy)
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Life The Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams (the first edition I read - I couldn't resist it, even though I've already got a copy)
A Thurber Carnival - James T ...
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Life the Universe and Everything by
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams
Fire and Ice by J. A. Jance
... won it on easy but now we're trying to master the whole thing!
Oh wait...we're talking about books.... ;) I finished Life the Universe and Everything but I'm taking a break from Adams and tackling Vanity Fair. Pretty decent so far!
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams A trilogy in 6 1/2 parts!
The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams.
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
... how you do it (throw yourself at the ground and miss), and Arthur actually does fly some (with humorous results) in Life, the Universe, and Everything So Long and Thanks for All the Fish .
All right, time to post my books for April.
8.The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
9.Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
10.So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams
11.Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
I finished off The ...
... unfinished, most notable among them O'Neill's Netherland.
30. Michael Blouin's Chase and Haven
31. Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe, and Everything (audio book)
Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Read several times.
2) Life, The Universe And Everything by Douglas Adams
Better than the second one. And I enjoy the wordplay and jokes. In the second one, I found Arthur to be a bit annoying but I did prefer this one. Anyway, I've already started the last one and then I'll read a book from the long list I've ...
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1. The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux
(2. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold finished in April)
3. ?
4. Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
5. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
6. Lemon Tree by Rae Desmond Jones
(7. Passage to Jun ...
148. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (audio)
The next instalment in the Hitchhikers Guide continues in the same vein as the first instalments. It is funny, silly and easy to listen to. I enjoyed it.
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Read in 2004
... Douglas Adams 8/13/09
5. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams 8/17/09
6. Life the Universe and Everything The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening and The Struggle * - L. J. Smith 9/10/09
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Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
From the library:
The Hitchhikers 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
It seems like I'm in for quite the Douglas Adams-fest!
Life, The Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
The Star Chamber by John Wilkes
The Stars Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
No One Belongs Here More Than You ***/***½
by Miranda July
09/01/08
Life, the Universe and Everything **½
by Douglas Adams
09/01/08
†Poetics
by Aristotle
09/01/08
OC: The Three Musketeers, The Magic Mountain, No One Belongs Here More Than You, Poetics EX: Life, the Universe and Everything
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Or So long and thanks for all the fish or Life , the Universe and Everything . I could go on but I think cheese is right!
...
Lucky for you there are 4 more books in the Hitchhiker's series:
2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
3. Life, The Universe and Everything
4. So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish and
5. Mostly Harmless
Enjoy!!!
Kathy
... is still there, you can have first refusal. So far I can offer you Madame Bovary (it's read but in good condition) and Life, The Universe and Everything . Again, message on my profile if you're interested and I'll let you know when they're listed and reserved for you. When you Mooch, I'll ...
... fun read!
I read Victory of Eagles this weekend. I love the Temeraire series! I'm alo listening to the audiobook of Life, the Universe and Everything , rereading Twilight, and tryin to kep up with my DH chapters for the reread.
... ...
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Just in case anyone's interested
Edited to remove books that ...
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith
Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Also enjoyed My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse and Lady Anna by Anthony ...
#13 Life, The Universe And Everything - Douglas Adams
#14 So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams
#15 Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
#13 Life, The Universe And Everything - Douglas Adams
#14 So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams
#15 Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
33.The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
34.Life the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
35.Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Count me in! I actually starting reading this series the beginning of May. I'm on Life the Universe and Everything and I can't put it down. Got my towel, got my book I'm all set.
... the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
57. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
58. Life, The Universe and Everything Wedding Season by Darcy Cosper
60. So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas A ...
A lullaby for you maybe? It comes straight from the brilliant mind of Douglas Adams via Life, The Universe, and Everything .
Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness won't engulf my head,
I can see by infrared,
How I hate the night.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
Try to count electric ...
I've finished listening to Life, the Universe and Everything and am now listening to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey - an unabridged version from LibriVox which is very well read.
22. Life, 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!
... Typing School for Men I am moving on to the next book in the series - The Full Cupboard of Life.
Also still reading Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams.
The LT DNA group is here
restaurant at the end of the universe is OK, Life the universe and everything is just about OK, So long, and thanks for all the Fish is just perculiar IMHO, however I quite like Mostly harmless although you do have to read it ...
10. Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
I'm so excited. Not even 3 months into the year and I'm a fifth of the way done.
Finished Life, the Universe and Everything . I need something different. Starting Agatha Christie's Crooked House.
Starting Life, the Universe and Everything .
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams (heh, had never noticed the Oxford comma before :-) )
Most days you would be right, but I'm working on Life, the Universe and Everything , again. No books for me this year, though I got DH a really good one Mont St. Michel and Chartes. Just what I read while finding a quote for the book mark has me interested. We are planning a trip to France, ...
... 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 the quality and charm of the first two books. I'd be interested to see if other people agree!
To chime ...
... 200 pages to get excited about Middlemarch but I'm so glad I stuck it out. Big payoff at the end.
I think I will read Life, the Universe, and Everything tonight. Less and less am I wanting to go back to The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency...
Life, the universe and everything by Douglas Adams
Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
... be surprised if there is life on other planets. Of course, life might not need planets...
As Douglas Adams says in The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy : "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is."
So the chances of life originating ...
Zaphod Beeblebrox in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .
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40. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
41. Life, the Universe and Everything
... Razor's Edge is quite possible my favorite book of all time. I want to be Larry Darrel when I grow up. Some others...The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (quite possibly the best 5 book trilogy ever), any thing by Bernard Fall or David Halberstam, Colin Wilson's The Outsider, Kitc ...
Received in the mail this week: The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty, I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles and Songs Without Words by Ann Packer. Planning to see Ann Packer tomorrow at a booksigning in NYC... can't wait!
Leigh jumped, and the newspaper crinkled in her hands.
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
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great list idea, I'll have to go stare at the bookshelves for a bit. Off the top of my head some MUST HAVES would be the Hitchhiker's Guide , Return of the King, Prayer for Owen Meany, Bill James Historical Abstract, Cannery Row and To Kill a Mockingbird....
I've read enjoyed several from LT reviews; Devil in the White City, Pillars of the earth, and the hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . Based upon LT reviews I am also going to give Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and second try!
... gets chosen. Here are a couple I own but haven't read, just ideas:
Something Wicked this Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
12. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams Reread.
13. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams Reread.
14. For Esme - with Love and Squalor by J. D. Salinger
I really loved these nine short stories by Salinger. They seem emotionally mature full of ...
... are just a few tags that seem to be grayed out for "personal"-ishness . One example in the thread you reference is Life, the Universe, and Everything . The lighter, grayed out tags are 42, classic, fiction, hardcover, novel, own, owned paperback, read, series and unread. Some of these ...
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It looks like the different colors are just visible when you "show all tags." Try Life, the Universe, and Everything and click on "show all tags" below the cloud; you'll see that, for example, "time travel" is dark blue but "series" is paler blue.
... dams:
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 Detective Agency
The Long ...
... in 2007 may be a bit of a stretch, but I'm going to give it a go.
I've got 13 so far:
Novels:
Douglas Adams - Life, the Universe and Everything --repeat
Douglas Adams - Mostly Harmless -- repeat
Douglas Adams - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish -- repeat
Douglas Adams - T ...
#12 that's book three Life the universe and everything , by book four Arthur is back on more or less the real earth in the "current" time frame. And he has a girlfriend.
I can't remember the deer, there's the rabbit which is Argajax or what ever his name is, but I've no recall on the deer.
#281 Really ? I found life the universe fairly weak and by the time of so long and thanks it had all got very odd and not nearly so funny, but to me mostly harmless was an upturn in quality - provided it is read with the notion, "this is absolutely definitely the very last book I'm writing on ...
Kukkurovaca, I like your rationale. :) (I'm all for life, the universe, and everything ....)
Even if it did work out well for you. May not be a point of scintillating action - but it reads well and needs nothing. Far more important, I think. :) Let's see....
This brings us to:
"You ...
... Ender's Game, A Wrinkle in Time, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, So Long And Thanks For All the Fish, Life the Universe and Everything , the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul, Speaker for the Dead, Ender's Shadow, Mostly Harmless, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, A Wind in ...
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