I'll kick it off for today - i really enjoyed the book - perhaps its was a little nostalgia (I read the 'trilogy' in my youth) but I found it very funny, and wonderfully surreal!
juliab | Jan 30 2008, 20:55 pm
wouldn't have read this if it hadn't been for the UBC as it's not my 'bag'...but it does make you think about the universe in a slightly different way!
burntsugar | Jan 30 2008, 21:02 pm
i'd read it too at a formative stage - this time ws a bit like hearing the monty python parrot sketch...like you knew it was ground-breaking, and became part of the national psyche
gleaming | Jan 30 2008, 21:05 pm
It's certainally an immersive instrduction to a new genre! But for me, the comedy - and the 'earth' perspective of Arthur - give you something to help make sense of it all.
juliab | Jan 30 2008, 21:05 pm
I read them when they first came out (only the first three). Funny how much I recalled, but then it may be watching the film/TV stuff. Gleaming is right, the jokes have become part of life.
Humz | Jan 30 2008, 21:08 pm
...but it didn't make me laugh out loud, and i'm trying not to sound sniffy, I think it made me think a bit more than when I was (considerably) younger, instead out just wanting to say Slartibartfast out loud
gleaming | Jan 30 2008, 21:08 pm
It was a very ground breaking book I think. You can see now how it spawned "Red Dwarf" and a lot of other sci fi things. I don't think I can recall funny sci fi books before this one?
Humz | Jan 30 2008, 21:09 pm
am I the only person to have not had any contact at all with the HGGTTG in my youth - I didn't even watch the low-budget tv series?!
burntsugar | Jan 30 2008, 21:09 pm
I can't even get the abbreviation right! (should be HHGTTG! sorry!)
burntsugar | Jan 30 2008, 21:11 pm
