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Douglas Adams was a brilliant English writer (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) who wrote Great books which combined humour, science fiction, philosophy, mystery and insightful social commentary. He was highly intellectual with a twisted sense of humour which combined in a marvelous blend in his books.
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This is his most famous work which started as a radio play, later turned into five novels and one short story, also a TV series was made, a computer game and then finally a movie.
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Book two of the Hitchhiker series.
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Book three of the Hitchhiker series.
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Book four of the Hitchhiker series.
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Book five of the Hitchhiker series.
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A funny dictionary of words that previously did not exist but describe situations we all know.
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More new words are added to situations and experiences that we all know but so far have lacked the appropriate words.
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A book written with Mark Carwardine and is about animals who are endangered or face extinction.
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A BBC television series from 1981. The series starred Simon Jones as Arthur Dent and David Dixon as Ford Prefect.
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A PC game from 1984.
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The movie from 2005 which is quite good and condences the stories into one script. Stephen Fry is brilliant as the voice of the book.
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An entry about the series as a whole.
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All five stories and the short story in one volume.
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Douglas Adams wrote two detective novels about Dirk Gently. These books are also truly funny and full of great comments about live the universe and everything.
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The second Dirk Gently book.
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This book contains an unfinished manuscript and a collection of articles. Published posthumously.
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QUEENBFLIX
April 15, 2010
What a wonderulf list! How sad that we had to lose such a great talent at such a young age! I think there's another book though--something like "Starship Titanic," if I'm not mistaken. I haven't been able to find a copy so maybe I'm wrong on that one.
ornleifs
April 15, 2010
Yes but that was based on an idea by DA but written by Terry Jones.
QUEENBFLIX
April 15, 2010
I didn't know that. I just finished poking around a little bit and found another confusing reference to it. It seems that there's another out of print version of the same title and Adam's same idea, but it was written by Robert Sheckley.
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Ukedude
October 20, 2009
Douglas Adams was nearly one of a kind. The only writer to pick up his mantle so far is Christopher Moore. Adams was brilliant
ornleifs
October 20, 2009
I don´t know Moore, better check him out.
Ukedude
October 20, 2009
My favorite Moore books are THE LUST LIZARD OF MELANCHOLY COVE, THE STUPIDEST ANGEL and LAMB. It's good stuff
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devora
October 19, 2009
Nice! I didn't know there were so many variations of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. We've got plenty of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans on Lunch! :)
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