Google Marking Douglas Adams' Birthday...

[sandyRoe]

I'd thought his 'Hitchikers guide to...' stuff was the work of an older man yet see he was quite young when he died. Do others here like his work?

[mccfluff]

i love it, i was surprised at his age as well, i assumed he was much older. he died very young!

[Sharingan]

I love it, it's around one of my earliest memories my parents reading the Hitchhiker's guide to me. I also like Terry Pratchett, but of the two prefer Douglas Adams.

[nungate]

I enjoyed the Hitchikers books - Loved the tv series too, didn't care much for the film though

[carrust]

http://liff.hivemind.net/ he also wrote this

[sandyRoe]

Books are always better. With them your imagination is given free rein.

[DTCwordfan]

Is Marvin the Manic Depressive Robot about then......?

[sandyRoe]

I sometimes think that Marvin might have been based on me

[ludwig]

I liked the books. I don't they've translated very well to the screen though - either TV or film.

[sandyRoe]

Not the gigantic brain, of course.

[DTCwordfan]

One of my colleagues in HK was named Marvin - one minute he could be like an enthusiastic twenty five year old, the next the manic depressive. At a directors and partners dinner, his wife told of a staff report he had been given, with the immortal line "He would be a great leader of men - if only they would follow him."

[emmie]

tried reading it and watching the programme, didn't like either.

[DTCwordfan]

and the planet of the shoe economy.....brilliant!

[mrs_overall]

I have tried them but his books are not my cup of tea

[bibblebub]

haven't read the books but the radio series are much better than either the tv or film versions

[mccfluff]

i want a pan galactic gargle blaster

[albaqwerty]

I heard the radio series, it left scenes to your imagination.
Didn't like the tv series much, definitely mis-casting there.

[nungate]

Never heard the radio series - would have been great. Who knows they might put it on Radio 4 extra one of these days.

[albaqwerty]

Nun, I hope these are the ones I'm talking about.
When I first heard them, the internet wasn't even an apple in the eye of technology :-)
(Must get these speakers checked out)

[albaqwerty]

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8B0E11D798B2314C

a link would have helped!