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Poll Question: What is your favorite book in Douglas Adams’ Hitchiker series?
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    Posted: June 23 2005 at 23:18

I LOVE all of Douglas's work, but the Hitchhiker series is his crowning glory.  It is very hard for me to choose between the first three books, (I feel that the series started to lose ground with So Long, but books 4 and 5 were great too!) but I would have to pick the first.  There are so many great moments in that one, the Babel Fish, the whale, Slartibartfast, the destructrion of Earth a few minutes after the destruction of Arthur's house... too many to mention!

So, what's your opinion?
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Hmm really hard to say.. I love the book as a whole, I'm not sure which part is my favorite. Well, probably the first one
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I'd have to read them all again to decide really!

BTW do you kniow that 2 more series have been done for radio covering all the books?
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Yes, Snow Dog, I did hear about that!  Have you read the scripts to the first two seasons?  In case you haven't, the first one is very similar to the first two books, but the second goes off on a tangant, and is just as brilliant as anything else Douglas has ever written!  I wonder how they are going to get the beginning of the third book to fit on to the end of the second series?  It wouldn't really work.  Maybe they won't even try. 
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I never read the last two, but of the ones i did read, i would have to choose the first.
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2005 at 13:13

Originally posted by Syntharachnid Syntharachnid wrote:

Yes, Snow Dog, I did hear about that!  Have you read the scripts to the first two seasons?  In case you haven't, the first one is very similar to the first two books, but the second goes off on a tangant, and is just as brilliant as anything else Douglas has ever written!  I wonder how they are going to get the beginning of the third book to fit on to the end of the second series?  It wouldn't really work.  Maybe they won't even try. 

I've got all the episodes on my hard drive from the BBC website! Trouble is each episode is only available for one week, if I find them all available again I'll PM you!

Heres an episode guide

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml



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Thanks, Snow Dog!  I'll look at that episode guide whenever I get a chance!
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The first is definately the best!  Along with Restaurant and Life...

But I also like So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
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The First three are brilliant and Id be hard pressed to choose... Ill go with restaurant though.
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Der Elektrische Mönch!!!!!! -(I dont know how it is called in english)

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And I Am His Biggest Fan In Germany       

 

 

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I actually think that Restaurant is the best. It contains the most hilarious humor IMO , for example the worlds loudest rock band! Absolutely mind-blowingly delightful stuff.
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Originally posted by Rapataz Rapataz wrote:

Der Elektrische Mönch!!!!!! -(I dont know how it is called in english)

Douglas Adams was the new Messias and died much too early

And I Am His Biggest Fan In Germany     

Looks like it translates to "The Electric Monk" whom is mentioned in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", so this might be the book you are talking about.  It isn't a Hitchhiker book though. 
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Did you read his "The Meaning of Liff", co-written with some David Lloyd, if I remember right?


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Just looked it up, it was John Lloyd.


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"Der Elektrische Mönch" was the German title of the first of his two "Dirk Gently" books and had the original title "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". The 2nd of this series was "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul".


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Restraunt at the end of the universe....funny stuff. There all good though.
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