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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« on: January 10, 2005, 10:48:27 PM »
You'll all be so proud of me. I've actually started to read the book. The strange looks I got at Cheers when I thought you guys were talking about a car are burned into my memory. So far I'm only through Chapter 1--sorry, 24 has been distracting me!
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2005, 10:51:43 PM »
 I think that officially makes me the last person on earth who hasn't read them.  Thanks a lot, Stacer.  
;D ;D ;D
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2005, 09:05:29 AM »
Fish, they read fast, and they're oh so worth it. Please take the time!

Oh, and Stacer, welcome to the party. One of us! One of us!
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2005, 09:18:03 AM »
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I think that officially makes me the last person on earth who hasn't read them.  Thanks a lot, Stacer.  
;D ;D ;D

Nope, I haven't read them yet.  Heck I didn't even like the BBC minniseries.
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2005, 01:32:46 PM »
So there's two of us.  However, you're still ahead of me, because I haven't even seen the BBC miniseries.

They're on my reading list, but they're always checked out at the library when I go.  I haven't checked BYU's library yet though...
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2005, 09:09:29 PM »
Douglas Adams' whole trilogy there is one of the best ive ever read - How do you fly? Throw yourself at the ground and miss. (but you must not be thinking about it)

how true.
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2005, 10:24:21 PM »
Yeah, I need to read them solely for the reason that then I'll have a clue what people are talking about when they say things like that, which is often.  
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2005, 10:52:22 PM »
6x9=42 Ms Fish, 42!
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2005, 11:37:41 PM »
YAR! and thats the secret to the universe.

I suppose now that you know.. your free to perish
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2005, 01:13:08 PM »
Beware of falling whales
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2005, 02:36:56 PM »
Ms. Fish, from personal experience I believe you will have an easier time finding them at the BYU library than a public library. I'm not sure if it's the fact that college students are generally too burned out to read for fun or they don't realize that there are fun books at the HBLL as well as serious ones, but the fiction is usually there. Even if it isn't though, you can put it on hold and the library computers will email you when it is returned. That's how I read the third Harry Potter for the first time.

(You probably already know this, but you pick up the book you put on hold at the check out desk).

And Sprig I think you have to be British to understand/enjoy the BBC version. What did you think of it Entropy?

The books are great.
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2005, 02:44:11 PM »
I loved the BBC version, but I basically grew up on British humor. Which I suppose explains Blacker Darkness.
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2005, 03:49:48 PM »
I loved the BBC version. and the radio broadcasts, which were the first incarnation.
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2005, 07:52:15 PM »
Don't ask me. I think i've read one of the books, once, a long time ago. I seem to remember thinking 'is that it?' after I finished it.
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Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2005, 09:45:35 PM »
"Oh no. Not again!"

MsFish, I have a paperback copy that you can borrow . . . once you've read my Dragonriders of Pern and returned it to me.
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