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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

-- Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

(Immediately after she realized it, the Earth gets destroyed.)

[-] Bloodh0undJohnson@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I just re-read it as a (middle age :S) adult -- and while it's hardly an underrated book, it's fucking amazing and not sufficiently appreciated beyond being a fantastically fun book for a teenage brain to read. Whoever hasn't read it since they were in high school or hasn't read it, really should pick it up.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I've re-read it many times, along with re-listening to the radio series, the LPs, re-watching the TV series, I can even appreciate the feature film, despite it being the least of the versions. I dearly love Douglas Adams.

The only thing I haven't done in many, many years is play the INFOCOM game. Too devious.

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