Its been ages since I posted anything, I have been far too busy, and indeed not reading anywhere near enough,but that is sadly no excuse....... I actually first came across Douglas Adams when very young, listening to the radio series, the now famous "Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy". I really do not need to say how shockingly good it is do I? Anyway, as you may know he died tragically young, when he still had a lot to contribute to society. So, for me he is not a new voice, but up until reading the Salmon of Doubt I had never really heard him with his philosophers hat on. I had only ever experienced the comic novelist. So in many ways it was a new experience.
The Salmon of Doubt has a lot of content, comments on Adams from illustrious friends, pithy remarks, throw away one liners, funny stories and anecdotes, and some very deep, very illuminating discussions on, well life the universe and everything really. I have not yet got to the section which contains the unfinished Dirk Gently novel, so I haven't even read it yet, but I am raving about it already.
If you like science, if you like wit, it you like or at least like being baffled by technology, you will like Douglas Adams. Sadly reading, actually listening as I got the audiobook for the car, to him his htoughts made me feel profoundly unlucky because I never actually had the chance to sit down with him and steal one of his biscuits(In Joke).
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