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« Reply #60 on: October 22, 2009, 07:43:51 AM » |
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Mostly, I just think he's terribly insipid and don't want to waste the energy arguing about something I care so little about.
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« Reply #61 on: October 22, 2009, 07:39:41 PM » |
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« Reply #62 on: October 31, 2009, 03:32:34 PM » |
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Read the new HHGTTG book. It's pretty good. Nothing as awesome as the originals but suitable to tie up loose ends.
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« Reply #63 on: October 31, 2009, 04:07:56 PM » |
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what loose ends? the new earth got blowed up at the end of mostly harmless.  |
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« Reply #64 on: October 31, 2009, 05:50:03 PM » |
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The multiverse is big, really big, you just won't believe how hugely mindboggingly big it is...
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« Reply #65 on: October 31, 2009, 06:57:48 PM » |
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but it's a long way down to the chemist. how much bigger could it possibly be?
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« Reply #66 on: October 31, 2009, 07:18:19 PM » |
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The trip to the chemists is just peanuts compared to the size of the multiverse, LISTEN ...
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« Reply #67 on: October 31, 2009, 08:01:59 PM » |
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Booo! Unless they call it "Fan-Fiction" this idea would be an unspeakable horror, and an insult to Adams and fans of the real series.
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« Reply #68 on: October 31, 2009, 08:02:47 PM » |
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Booo! Unless they call it "Fan-Fiction" this idea would be an unspeakable horror, and an insult to Adams and fans of the real series.
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« Reply #69 on: October 31, 2009, 08:03:49 PM » |
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Booo! Unless they call it "Fan-Fiction" this idea would be an unspeakable horror, and an insult to Adams and fans of the real series.
Adam's missus is of a differing opinion. |
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« Reply #70 on: October 31, 2009, 08:08:03 PM » |
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Booo! Unless they call it "Fan-Fiction" this idea would be an unspeakable horror, and an insult to Adams and fans of the real series.
Would be? It's published; you don't need to use the subjunctive. However, I'll reserve judgment til I read it. Yeah, I just noticed when this thread was started. I had no idea the book was out already. I'd be more likely to read the original series again, or some other Douglas Adams' work than this. But you never know. |
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« Reply #71 on: October 31, 2009, 09:29:31 PM » |
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Hmmmm.......I read a sample of this book on Amazon and I have to say that I was thoroughly unimpressed by it. I thought that Arthur, Ford and Random were written alright, if a little blander than Douglas Adams prose. But Zaphod....Douglas had molded the personality of the character after crazy American surfer types. (Just think of how Sam Rockwell portrayed the character in the movie.) The way he's written by this guy who is not Douglas Adams, he comes off as too British.
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« Reply #72 on: November 01, 2009, 05:00:10 AM » |
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Hmmmm.......I read a sample of this book on Amazon and I have to say that I was thoroughly unimpressed by it. I thought that Arthur, Ford and Random were written alright, if a little blander than Douglas Adams prose. But Zaphod....Douglas had molded the personality of the character after crazy American surfer types. (Just think of how Sam Rockwell portrayed the character in the movie.) The way he's written by this guy who is not Douglas Adams, he comes off as too British.
I haven't read the book yet, but it could be that the writer is trying to channel Mark Wing Davey more than Sam Rockwell. Mark Wing Davey was the british actor who played Zaphod in the radio and TV versions. |
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« Reply #73 on: November 01, 2009, 05:45:19 AM » |
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Yeah Zaphod's not a surfer type, he more a Transatlantic hipster/unspecified media-show business job type
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« Reply #74 on: November 01, 2009, 05:50:14 AM » |
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I haven't read the book yet, but it could be that the writer is trying to channel Mark Wing Davey more than Sam Rockwell. Mark Wing Davey was the british actor who played Zaphod in the radio and TV versions.
I suppose that's the author's preference, (Not that I'm bashing Mark Wing Davey's performance in the miniseries.) but like I said Douglas Adams based Zaphod more on bombastic Americans. I never read him as being particularly British. |
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