Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Post by **Yasmeen** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 11:18 pm

Has anyone read this book? It's hilarious-- definitely a good read if you're looking for something different. Also, if anyone's got any good recommendations, I need some projects for winter break!

Post by **ynot** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 2:04 am

I read it a long time ago.Seems like it was one of a series.Sort of like Dr. Who ,poking fun at the human condition.

Post by **overhung** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 2:44 am

Yep. Definitely a good read. I should have use Ford Prefect as my name here. I'd suggest reading the entire series. I think it's five books.

Post by **Huggybone** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 4:53 pm

Kurt Vonegut (sp?) is a good one if your into that stuff. Lots of irony.

Post by **sita** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 5:29 pm

I picked up the Celestine Prophecy at goodwill for 50 cents over the weekend. Quite entertaining

Post by **overhung** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 5:38 pm

I'd have to go with Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday as two of the funniest, meaningful stories I've ever read.

Post by **merrick** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 5:53 pm

as the series went on the books got weirder and weirder and i liked them more and more. vonnegut is good but i prefer phillip k dick. both those guys are way darker than adams.

Post by **deleted username** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 6:17 pm

I dig the hitchhiker books. You can't stop with the first one.

It seems like everyone is re-reading Tolkein these days (with good reason, my precious).

I just finished Abbeys Desert Solitaire and loved it. I've gotta read more of his stuff... He's way grumpier than me!!

Ya'll congratulate my wife when you see her next... she finished Atlas Shrugged last night!!

I recently re-read Steinbeck's Travels With Charley again and loved it even more than the first time. Any Steinbeck is cool in my opinion... with East of Eden being my favorite of his epics.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 7:31 pm

Yes, Yasmeen, definitely read the series. I loved those books, I may have to dig them out and read them again.

You can also never go wrong with Edward Abbey. I recently read Desert Solitaire, The Monkey Wrench Gang and its sequal, Hayduke Lives. Excellent books.

You can't go wrong with Jon Kraukauer, either, though a lot of people think he is an asshole. Regardless, his writing really pulls you in.

Right now I am reading the first Harry Potter book - it's excellent! - and I plan to read them all. I also have my usual selection of Anthropology (favorite author there is Jared Diamond) and Theology (favorite author there is Karen Armstrong) books going, which I am constantly reading for research for a book I plan to write myself.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 7:34 pm

and while you've got me tripping down memory lane with Douglass Adams, Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan series of books also make for some very interesting reading!