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RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote at 19:29 this Sunday (GMT):On 2024-06-23, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:>rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:>
>On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:30:10 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:>
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>And they ruined it for me. Rockwell's role really needed a Brit. His>
attempts at humour would have worked had there been a British accent
behind them.
I don't know waht a British accent wouls add other than unintelligibility
ifthey laid it on too thick.
>I read the book and thought it had its moments but I figured that by>
watching the movie, I would have understood a little more why some
people think it's such stellar literature. In the end, if the movie is
an accurate depiction of the book, I'm not impressed. Of course, the
1970s were a different time.
I read the book decades ago and iirc I also read 'So Long and Thanks for
the Fish'. I don't remember much of either other than the '42' that became
a meme. Terry Pratchett was one of the few authors in that genre that I
enjoyed. In general I find the Brits take a good gag and proceed to beat
it to death to make sure the dimmest member of the audience gets it.
I read the first couple pages of Hitchhiker and decided it was too
twee for me. Too jocose. Too flippant.
I guess I like "flippant." I enjoyed big chunks of the books — and endured
the "connecting chunks" to get to those chunks.
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“The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no
real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the
qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those
of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a
controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character.
His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On
those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents
the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten
presidential years in prison for fraud.”
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― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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I love the tangents the books go on too, random little tidbits about the
world that never get brought up again, like how that guy bulldozing the
house was a descendant of a warrior or the Gin and Tonic bit or how the
Hitchhikers Guide office is hilariously inept. It's both funny and kinda
adds to the whole tone the book gives off of "the universe is strange,
nonsensical, and incomprehensible, but we can just have fun with the
absurd parts"
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at least in my opinion
i /love/ hitchhikers guide
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