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« Reply #105 on: 12 October 2009, 23:07:49 » |
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The Adams quote is the one where the book's title comes from. Like how every Hitchhiker's book's title is borrowed from a line from the first book. I'm not sure if this quote is from the first book or from the third. I feel like it's one of those two, though.
The Adams quote, which also appears on the back cover:
The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying "And another thing..." twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.
- Douglas Adams
The quote directly below it:
We have travelled through space and time, my friends, to rock this house again.
- Tenacious D
It made me want to claw my eyes out.
I had to go to class so I haven't even finished first chapter, but what I have read seemed to be decent so far, if confusing (which is to be expected.)
Like I said, when I was younger I looooooved the Artemis Fowl books that Eoin Colfer wrote, and I think he's a great author. My issue with him isn't his writing, it's the fact that he wrote an unwarranted Hitchhiker's sequel. Most of my beef is just with the fact that this happened at all, but I do welcome it and genuinely want to enjoy it.
It just seems wrong to mimick Douglas Adams, you know?
If I happen to really enjoy this book, then I will definitely speak its praise. The world can always do with more Hitchhiker's Guide, but it's a shame we don't have Douglas himself to provide anymore. If Eoin proves a decent substitute, I'll be okay with it.
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« Reply #125 on: 22 December 2009, 02:32:13 » |
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I'll check it out. Posted on: 8 November 2009, 23:38:24
So a while back, I bought the first two hardcover collections of The Walking Dead, a comic series about people surviving a zombie holocaust that I'd heard about online. And, in a growing tradition of mine, the clincher came when I heard they were making a TV show based on it for AMC. So, yeah, I bought them and they were fantastic. Just got the third and fourth collections (they're expensive at $30 per collection) and I'm halfway through the third now. It seems like they get better and better with each one! The writing is great, and the art is fitting and works just great. I care more about the writing, though, and they've hit a winning goldmine here. The best part is that it'll make a perfect transition to a television series. I also picked up World War Z since I was in the zombie mode. Got Fight Club, too, which I've been meaning to read for quite a while now. And the only Douglas Adams book I've never read: Last Chance to See. The only reason I put it off for so long is because it's a non-fiction account of his trips around the world to find endangered species, but I've recently warmed up and stopped being such a pansy about non-fiction. I can't wait to read it. Don't know which one I'm going to start first, but it'll probably be that one. Saving those three for the cruise I'm going on with my family next week. I feel like a spoiled brat when I say I hate cruises, but I do. I've just been on too many. It's a horrible thing to say, I know, but it's... it's like too much of a good thing, y'know? If we went on them less, or if this was my first one, it'd be extremely different. Or if I went on them with friends, and not just my family (who are extremely boring on vacations... my mom is a primadonna type, my dad doesn't really do anything, and my brother tends to just yell a lot.) So I plan to read my way through this one, and watch DVD's when I'm not reading or being dragged to fancy dinners and Americanized sections of foreign countries. |
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« Reply #141 on: 11 January 2010, 07:42:20 » |
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Finished World War Z. It gets a little slower near the end but that's only because you're a little burned out by the time you get there. Just bought a book called John Dies At The End. I would have bought it purely on the title alone but it actually sounded really good in addition to that. It's a horror/comedy, and after reading the prologue I already love it. Posted on: 8 January 2010, 20:08:47
Finished John Dies At The End. Guys. Read this book. |
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