The hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Slicker</i>
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Know what slicker? Books started the internet, so without them you'd not be here!1!!!!!!!mrsparkle
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Yeah, right. I know Al Gore started the internet. The only books are good for is keeping homeless man warm in the library.
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books are a demetional portal to another world, with each book read the reader obtains knowledge of another world, becoming smarter with each read. it really shows that even as a kid you had trouble reading...you dumbass....books are the greatest thing ever!
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by pyrofreak</i>
books are a demetional portal to another world, with each book read the reader obtains knowledge of another world, becoming smarter with each read. it really shows that even as a kid you had trouble reading...you dumbass....books are the greatest thing ever!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">YEAH! Espcially the ones that cost between $6 and $9 with 8 page spreads of naked chicks inserting things into any opening!
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jdr3 that is da copy i read so ur in life da unerverse and evrything den? its cool i think it is tht 1 in which marvin dies cant be certain about that and Athur has a daughter it is in mostly harmless
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Diabolical</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by pyrofreak</i>
books are a demetional portal to another world, with each book read the reader obtains knowledge of another world, becoming smarter with each read. it really shows that even as a kid you had trouble reading...you dumbass....books are the greatest thing ever!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">YEAH! Espcially the ones that cost between $6 and $9 with 8 page spreads of naked chicks inserting things into any opening!
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......sure.....why not...but i ment literature...not porn mags....
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pyrofreak that is the most random quote i have eva heard nd u havent heard all the random stuff i liv wiv everyday 1 guy asked my teacher can u give birth 2 a cabbage, bean and colliflower i am seriousley worried about that guy...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Children's author Eoin Colfer is to write a sixth novel in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, seven years after the death of its creator Douglas Adams, Penguin said Wednesday.

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The Irish writer, best known for his Artemis Fowl fairy stories, has the blessing of Adams' widow, Jane Belson, to continue the bestselling science fiction saga.

Called "And Another Thing...," the new novel will be published in October 2009. Colfer said he was a big fan of the original books, which started as a BBC radio serial.

"For years I have been finishing this incredible story in my head and now I have the opportunity to do it in the real world," he said in a statement. "It is a gift from the Gods. So, thank you Thor and Odin."

The satirical books tell the story of a hapless Englishman called Arthur Dent who travels the universe after the Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

The saga centers on the search for the answer to "life, the universe and everything," which after a long wait turns out to be 42. Penguin Managing Director Helen Fraser said she hoped Colfer would attract new readers to the books.

Adams died from a heart attack in California in 2001 at the age of 49. He had hoped to finish the series with a sixth novel.

"Five seems to be a wrong kind of number; six is a better kind of number," he once said.

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The series ended. Arthur Dent died at Stavro Mueller's Beta when the Vogons came back to finish the job and re-destroy the Earth.

Fuck you, Eoin Colfer. And double-fuck you, Jane Belson. You are both money-hungry scum, and I hope you both die of a painful toenail infection that slowly spreads over your entire body, covering you with a flesh-eating mildew so that you suffer the most unimaginable pain imaginable.

Douglas Adams was a god among men. You risk making Jesus very angry with such actions. Very angry indeed. You don't want to see a divine savior turn into a giant green angry deity with purple pants.

Fuck, if they were gonna blaspheme like this, they could have at least got Terry Jones, who has a similar style and worked with Adams on Starship Titanic. Or Terry Pratchett, who's also similar, and might not be so far along in his weird early-onset Alzheimer's to pull this off. Or even Neil Gaiman, who co-wrote the amazing Good Omens with Pratchett and is funny in his own right, in addition to being one of the greatest living novelists.

Of course, I'm sure the bitch asked all three, and they kicked her off their property so as not to invite random lightning strikes on their heads.
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That movie sucked balls.
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Yes. Yes it did.

But you've read the books, right? They most certainly do not suck balls.
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The guy has had a really good Hitchhiker story in his head for years? So he's admitting he can't come up with his own good shit, he needs to derive from others? Fuck that noise.
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I don't care who writes it if it isn't penned by DA then it isn't HHGG. it matters not that Adams retconned a lot of his own work to make it fit new stuff, someone else doing that is just tantamount to grave robbing. running off with the spoils.
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It's like farting in a vagina.
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I'm probably more in your camp than you realize, Jargo. I think this idea is nauseating and evil, but I could've forgiven it and given it a chance as a "what if?" if it were by one of the three people I listed (all of whom are good, and two were actually connected professionally to Adams).

Besides, we got part of a sixth Hitchikers novel... it was called The Salmon of Doubt. There's also the short story that doesn't fit anywhere at all, "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe." So we have five and two "halves," so six. This will bring it to six. Why the seeming discrepancy? Oh yeah--this isn't fucking real!
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It has been years since I read the novels. I mean a really long time, like back in the 80s. Actually, I didn't know they went past the first 3 novels other than the Zaphod short story I saw in a compilation that I bought, but seem to have lost in one of my moves. I intended on re-reading the series.

I didn't think the movie was all that bad.
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