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zam Since: Jun, 2009
#1: Oct 27th 2010 at 2:39:29 PM

I just have to thank the troper who recommended it, I had a blast reading Dirk Gently. Too bad we don't have more sequels.

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#2: Oct 27th 2010 at 2:41:00 PM

This was indeed an awesome book of awesomeness.

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TheFedoraPirate Since: Jan, 2001
#3: Oct 27th 2010 at 2:41:10 PM

I know! I was just talking about this with a fellow at work yesterday who just finished reading the first. It's also a pity more people haven't read them as they're ludicrously fun (as one would expet Douglas Adams' work to be).

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#4: Oct 27th 2010 at 2:46:42 PM

I wasn't knocked out, but the first one did a pretty good job.

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TheFedoraPirate Since: Jan, 2001
#5: Oct 27th 2010 at 5:36:34 PM

That's because you know no book can beat Catch-22 tongue

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BlackWolfe Viewer Gender Confusion? from Lost in Austin Since: Jun, 2010
#6: Oct 27th 2010 at 8:39:38 PM

Which one? Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency or The Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul? They're both excellent.

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#7: Oct 27th 2010 at 11:17:01 PM

I liked the first one better myself, but they're both awesome. Why doesn't Dirk get as much love as the Hitchhiker's Guide?

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BlackWolfe Viewer Gender Confusion? from Lost in Austin Since: Jun, 2010
#8: Oct 27th 2010 at 11:27:56 PM

Rabid fans. For example, Adams once showed up at a university to give a speech and Q&A session, and one of the attendees stepped up to the question microphone in a bathrobe, carrying a towel. Reportedly, Adams berated the attendees, then left.

Dunno how true that is, but the fact remains that Hitchhiker's came first and is the reason Adams has so many fans in the first place, so he kept cranking them out. When he first started Salmon Of Doubt, he didn't know if it was going to be H 2 G 2 or Dirk related.

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TheFedoraPirate Since: Jan, 2001
#9: Oct 27th 2010 at 11:29:46 PM

^^^I assumed he meant the series...

edited 27th Oct '10 11:29:57 PM by TheFedoraPirate

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BlackWolfe Viewer Gender Confusion? from Lost in Austin Since: Jun, 2010
#10: Oct 27th 2010 at 11:34:03 PM

He did, I just was lousy explaining. Basically First Series Wins.

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Drakyndra Her with the hat from Somewhere Since: Jan, 2001
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#11: Oct 27th 2010 at 11:35:13 PM

I need to reread the Dirk Gently books, it's been a while.

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newtonthenewt Since: Jul, 2009
#12: Oct 28th 2010 at 12:24:49 AM

Welcome. I haven't read them since grade 8 or so, so it's definitely time for me to re-read them.

(My favorite bit when they explain how they choose who gets a record deal by how well their name can be formatted as a trademark.)

Also, has anyone read Last Chance To See? Possibly better than both Hitchhiker's and 'Gently combined.

edited 28th Oct '10 12:25:16 AM by newtonthenewt

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#13: Oct 28th 2010 at 4:19:05 PM

My favorite bit of randomness is the I Ching calculator. "There wasn't a red button, but there was a blue button marked 'red'..." [lol]

Partially because of the implicit suggestion that if you do, in fact, multiply 6 times 9, the answer you will get is A SUFFUSION OF YELLOW.

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#14: Oct 28th 2010 at 6:34:21 PM

There is no such word as "herring" in my dictionary.

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#15: Oct 28th 2010 at 10:36:41 PM

I'd forgotten the I Ching calculator! It made me happy to think about. It must be made real.

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zam Since: Jun, 2009
#16: Oct 29th 2010 at 7:34:53 AM

[awesome]Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency [awesome]

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