Monday 8 November 2010

Douglas Adams' books

I know I've written about my ever-lasting love for Douglas Adams before, but a good thing's always worth repeating...

D. Adams' Books (those in orange, I haven't yet read):
The Private Life of Genghis Khan (1975)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
The Meaning of Liff (1983, with John Lloyd)
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (1984)
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (short story) (1986)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)
The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990, with John Lloyd)
Last Chance to See (1990, with Mark Carwardine)
Mostly Harmless (1992)
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic (1997), in fact written by Terry Jones (who insists he wrote the whole thing while in the nude), but based on an idea by Adams.
The Salmon of Doubt (2002), unfinished novel manuscript (11 chapters), short stories, essays, and interviews.

All of them hilarious. So if you ask me - this guy was special.
Now I'll just have to get my hands on The Meaning of Liff and the Doctor Who episodes Adams wrote...

Have also found out that our derest Mr. Adams died from suffering a heart attack while he was working out at a private gym in California. It subsequently turned out that he too, like his most adorable Hitchhiker characters, knew where his towel was. He didn't even turn 50.

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