quote:Originally posted by Dragon88
Boosta has a quote of it in his siggy.
hah, I just read the title and thought about pointing at my sig :)
quote:Originally posted by Electro_cyc
Haven't read it. The people I see reading it at my school are goths so I tend to stay away from it. But I might read it later, when I have the time.
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I don't really see why goths would read this..
Anyway, the series (5 books) was written by Douglas Adams and it's about Arthur Dent who lives on our earth. Since it will be destroyed in about 5 minutes, his friend Ford "hitchhikes" with him through the galaxy. Err, I can't really summarize it.. the series seems a lot like science fiction, but no, you don't have to like Startrek or whatever (I hate it).
it's just a lot of.. weird/special humor, can't put it right. You just look at things from another point of view.
From the beginning:
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working."
"For thousands more years, the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming onto the first planet they came across -- which happened to be the Earth -- where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog."
there has been a film version of the books, a radio series and they're planning on filming a new version of it (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/)
you can download the books from a file sharing network of your choice :)
if you like them, buy them!