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Advantages: Really great and well written ideas
Disadvantages: No movie, and the sad news of Douglas Adams’s death

...I wouldn’t say Douglas Adams was a hero of mine but he is someone I admired a great deal. I love the way he wrote and the ideas he came up with, it wasn’t until his death a year ago that it really came home to me of how much a part he played in my life, he will be very missed. I have written a couple of opinions about Douglas Adams’s lately, and have done several, most of the following I wrote but left out due to the length of those ops. So seeing as a new revised edition of what is essentially a biography of Douglas Adams has just come out and been read by this fan I thought I’d include it here. ~~Don’t Panic - Douglas Adams & The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy~~ Written by Neil Gaiman and originally came out as ‘Don’t Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Companion’, in 1987. It was revised by David K...

seagulls-lost-horizon 14.08.2002 · Read review
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Review of Don't Panic - Douglas Adams & The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Neil Gaiman

Douglas Adams, a hero

Advantages: Greatest author ever
Disadvantages: will write no more

...I first heard of Douglas Adams' death when I saw it in the paper. They had given him a very small section, one column and about thirty lines. I actually gave a minutes silence almost automatically after seeing the headline. Douglas Adams was almost a hero for me, as I enjoyed all his books. I would often learn things about the way he felt and thought about things, and it would sometimes scare me. I can say ‘I never really got the hang of Thursdays’ without it being a pure quote as I really do have trouble with Thursdays. It is the worst day of my week often. I also agree with many of his beliefs, on reading ‘Last Chance to See’ I agreed at every turn. The Hitch-Hikers Guide has influenced me more than any other book, and I must confess that my friends and I look out for the number forty-two everywhere...

R_Easton 09.10.2001 (14.10.2001) · Read review
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Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams misses another deadline...

Advantages: Everything Douglas Adams writes is marvelous in one way or another
Disadvantages: Incomplete story, it's NOT a novel, some older reprinted material.

......and finally manages to release a book just over a year after his untimely demise. I love Douglas Adams, he wrote with insightful wit, layers of meaning, brilliant turn of phrase, was excellent for quoting verbotem and at length at dinner parties and also managed to include stuff about robots and aliens and stuff. Cool. For those of you not familiar with Mr Adams body of work, he is most famous for the Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (Radio series, books and TV series), but also wrote two and a half Dirk Gently novels, some computer games, a spoof dictionary and a conservation book. And he was a very funny bloke. I read he had taken up exercise to help his writers block (he was as legendary for not-writing as he was for writing) and in one of those events that make us sedentary folk raise a knowing eyebrow, he died...

Raybid 20.06.2002 · Read review
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Review of The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams R.I.P.

Advantages: Written by the late, great Douglas Adams
Disadvantages: There'll be no more of his unique humour

...I've just seen the tragic announcement that Douglas Adams has died after a heart attack at the criminally young age of 49. I love the guy's writing and this is a very real loss to the literary world. An extraordinary talent cut brutally short. God bless you, Douglas, you've given me some real laughs, fun and enjoyment with your books. May you rest in peace. ************************************************************************* Douglas Adams considered the idea of hopping round space whilst in a drunken stupor. Fair play to the guy. As we all know, we've had some fantastically brilliant ideas when under the influence, but very few are looked on in the same way the following morning. Thankfully for the literary world, this one was still a right corker. The book centres around the exploits of two friends, Arthur Dent and Ford...

Salgirl 12.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams, the man and his books

Advantages: See opinion
Disadvantages: What we have is all we have

...Ciao don't do general opinions on an author as such, so I'm making my own stand for the sake of Douglas Adams' memory. It's the least I can do. What a laugh. That's pretty much all you can say about the man, except to add that he was a clever, witty, caring and creative genius. Born in March, 1952 in Cambridgeshire, he was educated in a high school in Brentwood, Essex before returning home and attending St. Johns College, in the dreaming spires town of Cambridge. He had done a variety of things, including getting outrageously drunk in Austria and having no money for a bed, crashing out in a field and thinking how brilliant it would be to just hop around the galaxy. People could use a sub-etha net to communicate their experiences of different planets, and tap into it whenever they wanted to find stuff out, or report their...

Salgirl 24.03.2001 (13.05.2001) · Read review
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Review of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Adams misses his final deadline.

Advantages: A laugh-out-loud funny collection of pieces by the inimitiable Douglas Adams
Disadvantages: You'll hate not knowing how the story ends!

...Douglas Adams is most famous for his trilogy-in-five-parts, The Hitchhiker novels/radio play/ TV adaptation, which was finally made into a film after his early death. (I'm sure he would have smiled to know that, after all the trials and tribulations, it was made at last, although it is highly unlikely that he would have approved of the final product.) His last, unfinished, hilariously comic novel is reproduced here alongside various fiction and non-fiction pieces, so although the title of the book is the same as the title of the incomplete novel, there is much more to this collection than one draft of a promising new novel. The book opens with an editor's note from Peter Guzzardi who simply explains how the book came into being. This is followed by a prologue which outlines Adams' life story and then summarises his history in...

brokenangelkisses 06.01.2004 (18.01.2009) · Read review
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Review of The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams

tribute to douglas adams

Advantages: great read!!!
Disadvantages: unputtabownable

...Douglas adams, author of The hit hikers guide to the galaxy, died of a heart attack last week aged 49. The news will surely be a huge disappointment to the vast and loyal readership that the book has gained ever since it was first published in 1979. I have written this review as a tribute to his work and life. introduction ------------------------------------------- there are funny books and there are science fiction books, but rarely any has any author managed to write a cuccessful comic science fiction fiction novel that has been widely read as this one. It has been adapted as a radio series, a TV series, numerous cassettes and CDs, even a computer game, all the while growing ever more popular as readers old and young travel through the exciting worlds and planet systems of Arthor Dent and Ford Prefect. general story...

yics 21.05.2001 · Read review
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Review of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Hitch Hikers wasnt Adams' only book y'know.

Advantages: Great funny read. Nice charactures.
Disadvantages: Not as well known as Hitch-Hikers.

...DOUGLAS ADAMS - DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY ------------------------------------------------------- So here i am, sat awake at a stupidly late hour, i cant sleep, which is pretty much how every night goes, well i thought to myself, why not read a good book, so completly at random i decided to pick up one of my old favourites, Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency. This is the first book in a trilogy which sadly never got finished due to Douglas Adams' untimely death, although the first few chapters have been released in the last Douglas Adams book, The Salmon of doubt. But what better way to celebrate a great writer than to look back at some of the material that made him famous. Douglas Adams wil always be known as that bloke that wrote Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy, which is a great shame, as people tend to...

kylecoare 08.09.2003 · Read review
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Review of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

A A A ADAMS!!!

Advantages: good quality
Disadvantages: not find it yet

...Hi! My experience with Adams started about 4 years ago, when my son has been born. In that time, I was trying every kids shop to find the best one. After buying clothes from different shops, I got to conclusion that the Adams is the best and suits my need. The cloths are very good quality- I never find it any little holes or marks on them. *** My shop situated is in city centre and is very easy to get to it. When I walk in to the shop, I can feel very warm atmosphere there. The cloths been sorted in the age groups- baby, toddler boys 1-4 years, toddler girls 1-4 years, boys 4-10 and girls 4-10,-schoolwear and footwear... They are presented nicely and sorted starting from the smallest size going up. Every time I have been there I always, can find size what I am looking for? *** This shop is brilliant for Scholl wear...

redeyes22 21.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Adams

Douglas Adams guide to great humour

Advantages: fabulously funny, great storylines, great characters
Disadvantages: None at all

...I was very saddened by the recent death of Douglas Adams, as a huge fan of his books. My favourtie is of course The hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I have read this book so many times I find myself chuckling before I get to a funny part, just because I know what is going to happen! The book revolves around a man named Arthur Dent who lives on Earth, oblivious to the fact his best friend is an alien. Ford Prefect, his best friend, rescues Arthur when the Earth is demolished to make way for a hypergalactic bypass. Well, these things happen. There begins Arthurs adventures around the universe. The afore mentioned guide is an electronic book (a kind of enyclopedia) about the universe, designed for... yes, you guessed - hitchhikers! This is the first in a trilogy of four books (as mentioned on the blurb). These books are hilarious...

BAILEY 17.05.2001 · Read review
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