2011 Reading #79: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
71. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
72. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin.
73. Red by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.
74. Richard Stark's Parker Book One: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke.
75. Plastic Man: On the Lam! by Kyle Baker.
76. Old Men In Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers by Alasdair Gray.
77. Orbiter by Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran with Dave Stewart.
78. The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects by Mike Mignola.
79. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Re-read). I used to read this book and laugh my ass off. I mean that I would sit alone in a room and laugh out loud because I couldn't contain it. It makes me a little sad that I didn't laugh out loud that much re-reading it, but I guess considering how many times I've read it by now it's not surprising that I can see the jokes coming. I always used to like Marvin the best, which I guess tells you how depressed I was as a teenager. It struck me as I was reading this that, while Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were certainly British, I feel like this book was my introduction to the U.K. in many ways. Certainly it was in searching PBS for the BBC adaptation of the book that I first stumbled on Fawlty Towers and Monty Python and learned that people with fancy accents could be extremely silly indeed. Because it's there on the pages, here; I can't read any of the dialogue, or even much of the narration, without hearing it in a British accent. I can't decide if this is because I used to read it aloud in my terrible imitation of a British accent (certainly possible), or because of the aforementioned BBC series, or because Adams was actually that good that the very inflections come through on the page. The way I hear Arthur saying "Slartibartfast?!?" has to be from the series, I think; the rest is probably a combination of the three.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
71. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown.
72. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin.
73. Red by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.
74. Richard Stark's Parker Book One: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke.
75. Plastic Man: On the Lam! by Kyle Baker.
76. Old Men In Love: John Tunnock's Posthumous Papers by Alasdair Gray.
77. Orbiter by Warren Ellis and Colleen Doran with Dave Stewart.
78. The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects by Mike Mignola.
79. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Re-read). I used to read this book and laugh my ass off. I mean that I would sit alone in a room and laugh out loud because I couldn't contain it. It makes me a little sad that I didn't laugh out loud that much re-reading it, but I guess considering how many times I've read it by now it's not surprising that I can see the jokes coming. I always used to like Marvin the best, which I guess tells you how depressed I was as a teenager. It struck me as I was reading this that, while Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were certainly British, I feel like this book was my introduction to the U.K. in many ways. Certainly it was in searching PBS for the BBC adaptation of the book that I first stumbled on Fawlty Towers and Monty Python and learned that people with fancy accents could be extremely silly indeed. Because it's there on the pages, here; I can't read any of the dialogue, or even much of the narration, without hearing it in a British accent. I can't decide if this is because I used to read it aloud in my terrible imitation of a British accent (certainly possible), or because of the aforementioned BBC series, or because Adams was actually that good that the very inflections come through on the page. The way I hear Arthur saying "Slartibartfast?!?" has to be from the series, I think; the rest is probably a combination of the three.