Douglas Adams

Sorry about the length but it's a good read if you've not read it before. Christians, feel free to give me your well-informed views without reading it: Where does the idea of God come from? Well, I think we have a very skewed point of view on an awful lot of things, but let's try and see where our p...

This question is just for fun. This quote is by Douglas Adams, a humorist and science fiction writer. It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be...

What is your opinion of it? Personally, I think he did a good job of it and I'm glad he is able to keep the story going. Too bad though Douglas Adams had to go off to that big tea pot in the sky. If you do read this book and read other stuff by Eoin, you might want to pick up Douglas Adams Hitchhikers Guid...

He seems to have read everything, his favourites are Cherub series by Robert Muchamore The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams He isn't into fantasy books like Harry Potter. He enjoys comedy (Hitchhikers guide) and gritty stories (Cherub) he also enjoyed the boy in the strip...

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I'm in high school, but I don't really like books aimed at children or teens. Some of my favorits books are 2001 and sequels by Arthur C Clark, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams, and Contact- Carl Sagan. I've also read a few Star Wars books. Some of my favorite movies are Star Wars (...

Can be more than one. Tell why if you can. Thank you! 1. The Invisible Man by HG Wells 2. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Vern 3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 4. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury 5. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 6. Pygmalion by George Bernard Sha...

I love reading and I need something new but right now I have such a long list of books that I want to check out and none are really jumping out at me. Help me out? I'm looking for something witty, kind of whimsical in a Douglas Adams kind of way, but not necessarily of the humor genre (I'm not sure ho...

I want to buy a hardcover copy of "The Ultimate Hitch Hikers Guide" by Douglas Adams. This book is typically black with gold lettering and a ribbon page marker. This book is going to be a gift, so I'm wanting to include a personalized message, and choose the ribbon color. (to the persons favorit...

DEEP THOUGHT, the supercomputer created by novelist Douglas Adams, got there first, but now the astronomer royal has caught up. Professor Sir Martin Rees is to suggest that "life, the universe and everything" may be no more than a giant computer simulation with humans reduced to bits of s...

things like intelligence and wealth. People like Richard Dawkins and Desmond Morris and Douglas Adams are all really clever, and they are rich and have good lives. I know Douglas died young, but so do lots of really strong believers who live in awful poverty. It's almost as if God especially b...

In his excellent book The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy(a trilogy in five parts) Douglas Adams describes how Wonko The Sane put the world into his asylum. He built his house inside out(furnishings on the outside and roof tiles and outer style windows on the inside,complete with a carpet...

Douglas Adams, author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and other poignant tales offers this suggestion from the grave: If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action. ~Douglas Adams Tracy Aiello is a National ...

 NJ Three years ago, Rice, a communications director by profession and engineer by trade, said he devised a one-man performance based on Douglas Adams' writings, most famously, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," that explored the spirituality of the ...

I've been interested in aye-ayes ever since I read Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams. It's one of my favorite books, and a good one to share with your kids. Adams and a biologist traveled the world in the late 80s, visiting endangered species and ...

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 - Edward Douglas Disney's attempt at bringing Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to the big screen only did slightly better. Because Hollywood is so nervous about the science fiction genre, we haven't seen that many attempts at reviving it. ...

How Many have you read, and which ones are they? 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper L...

I was just curious, i have read a fair few books and wanted to know if anyone had any they would like to share with me? I need something new to pick up and read please...? I have just finished a George Orwell and i love Douglas Adams and Juliet marillier so if anyone knows of any Authors like them, i am...

I’m reminded of a bit from the late Douglas Adams’ HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, specifically, the British TV series. In this whimsical sci-fi tale, hapless last-human-alive Arthur Dent and his extraterrestrial pal, Ford Prefect, find themselves ...

 CA Before you pass me off as a total kook, remember that "42" was revealed by the late British sci fi satirist Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001), as the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. Adams´ science fiction "trilogy," "The ...

 Canada strange and wonderful The Manual of Detection was Douglas Adams, creator of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and, more to the point, Dirk Gently, Zen "hero" of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ...

With me, it's "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams, some Edgar Wallace story whose title utterly escapes me (about an evil young man who emotionally enslaved a dear young woman with drugs- but he turned out to be the character you least expected!), any story *without* a neatly wrapped-up e...

After all, Douglas Adams is dead and nolonger exists to "hear" Richard Dawkins speak to him. Isn't he sucumbing to the same emotional illogic that he himself rails against? Citizen of the cosmos: I "came up with" the question while reading that very passage, and I felt annoyed. I found Richa...

I recently began the excellent novel, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and have a "theory". Based on the first chapter, I am beginning to believe that Douglas Adams is criticizing humanity in an almost upbeat way. For example, shortly after waking up at the beginning of the book, Art...

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. - Isaac Asimov If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. - Albert Einstein I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and b...

 NH - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent never imagined a new highway interchange would be life transforming. ...

By quotations Some fans called him "Bop Ad," while others refer to him by his initials, "DNA." Whatever the name, Douglas Noel Adams has a keen fan following. His The Hitchhiker's Guide...

Douglas and Adams counties ranked among the top 10 counties in a new federal survey of employment and wage growth through the first quarter of this year.

His The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction parody, brought him a cult following. If you have not read it yet, you don't know what you are missing! Read Douglas Adams quotes and enjoy his quirky sense of humor. ...

I need new sci-fi or fantasy books I have read and enjoyed: William Gibson, Nick Sagan, Neal Stephenson, Richard Morgan, I love cyber punky - urban - post apocalyptic -stuff with a dark edge. I also enjoy humourous books Douglas Adams -read 'em all Terry Pratchett -read 'em all Neil Gaiman -...

 Canada - Oct 3, 2008 Douglas Adams' seminal science fiction spoofThe Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxyis noteworthy for, among other things, having the words "Don't Panic" ...

New Scientist (subscription) New Scientist's favourite sci-fi book New Scientist (subscription), UK - Oct 1, 2008 Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. "Hitchhiker's Guide is the out-and-out best sci-fi book by several dead whales and one bowl of petunias. ...

Arrow is to reissue Hitch-Hiker’s Guide author Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See, following this autumn’s BBC2 series “Last Chance to See: The Return”. The imprint acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in the book from agent Ed Victor. ...

 UK - Oct 1, 2008 Douglas Adams, best known as the brilliantly witty mind behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, co-wrote Last Chance to See, and it was the project of ... Arrow to reissue Adams The Bookseller (subscription) all 2 news articles

Positive Atheism’s Big List of Douglas Adams Quotations PAMBLOQ Rules! Yesss!! • No-Frames Quotes Index • Load This File With Frames Index • Home to Positive Atheism Douglas Adams (1952-2001) 'Chief Fantasist' Continue with Alphabetically Sequenced Quotations Douglas AdamsYes, I...

Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem “Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning” four of his audience died of inter...

 - Sep 23, 2008 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams If I had to pick one book everyone should read, embarrassingly enough, I'd probably pick this one. ...

 CA - Sep 20, 2008 The late Douglas Adams created a brilliantly daft universe in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and now it looks as though his literary baton will be ...

subscription) HC buys tie-in to new Stephen Fry show subscription), UK - Sep 19, 2008 The book follows on from the 1980s radio series "Last Chance to See" when Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist ...

By Rosie Ryan Before his death in 2001, Douglas Adams said he had plans for another sequel: The publisher had an interesting way of getting Hitchhiker fans interested, distributing this call from Arthur Dent on the Penguin Blog: It's been sanctioned by Adams' partner, but some are worried that it won...

Books by authors that are at or above 9th grade level.? I got a Summer Reading Program and they gave me a list of authors. But the problem is, i don't know any of the authors and what books they wrote and its a pretty long list. So if you could help me please choosing a book and i can give you some of the a...

By pat In Douglas Adams’ book Mostly Harmless, there is a security robot named Colin. You and I are a lot like Colin, before Ford Prefect bypassed the chip that held his conditions for happiness. What’s this got to do with Internet Marketing?

By Dirk Gently In which a young Zaphod Beeblebrox arrives somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere with some perhaps unsound Safety Officers to inspect a perhaps unsafe wreckage... This is a one off special as an interlude to our DGHDA series. It is a radio adaptation of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy shor...

By By info@associatedcontent.com (R.E. Norton) This fourpart story from Season Seventeen City of Death was copenned by thenscript editor Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and producer Graham Williams CoD turned out to be one of the 17th Seasons stronger stories

By Gary Susman I'll get you started: My sci-fi tastes often run to the culty/spoofy corner of the universe. So I'm glad Galaxy Quest made the list, but I'd have loved to see The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension ("No matter where you go... there you are."), Repo Man (not just the best movie e...

If you're a fan of books like Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens," then "Blithe Spirit," this week's theatre department production from playwright Noel Coward, is probably the production for you.

By chris@aximsite.com I'm sure there was a bit in one of Douglas Adams' books (or radio series, or towels) where he started talking about the problems of passwords and accounts. The problem, as he described it, when something like this.

By Dirk Gently In which Gordon Way has a nasty surprise, Professor Chronotis has a nasty shock, and a glass of port has a nasty affair with the floor. Based on the novel by Douglas Adams. This series is a collaborative, strictly non-profit amateur production. All performers are members of the Douglas Adams...

News: Doctor Who on the Weakest Link, Christopher Eccleston in Heroes, Doctor Who on BBC America, etc. Features: Joey Reynolds interviews Dan Harris, organizer of the Doctor Who Sea Cruises, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Whoverse, Russel Hale reviews Tooth and Claw .