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On Hitchhiking
Well, then. It seems this is the week to post what you're reading.
I've put down all my books to finish one: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," by Douglas Adams. I know someone said to read it before the movie comes out in an earlier village journal. I'd like to echo her sentiments. So, read it before the movie comes out. By the way that was my echo.
If you need more than a random person's random recommendation, below are two passages from the book I found very amusing that illuminate why the book will be better than the movie:
"Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human...Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a prounounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats."
And,
"The great ships hung motionless in the sky, over every nation on Earth...The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
In the fifth grade I merely skimmed pages of it, never reading it all the way through, however it's a great read even now at only 215 pages. But as the mighty LeVar Burton would say, don't take my word for it...
I've put down all my books to finish one: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," by Douglas Adams. I know someone said to read it before the movie comes out in an earlier village journal. I'd like to echo her sentiments. So, read it before the movie comes out. By the way that was my echo.
If you need more than a random person's random recommendation, below are two passages from the book I found very amusing that illuminate why the book will be better than the movie:
"Mr. L. Prosser was, as they say, only human...Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a prounounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats."
And,
"The great ships hung motionless in the sky, over every nation on Earth...The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
In the fifth grade I merely skimmed pages of it, never reading it all the way through, however it's a great read even now at only 215 pages. But as the mighty LeVar Burton would say, don't take my word for it...
Comments on this journal
Izmael: Its the bit about man and God having an arguement about bablefish showing that he shouldn't exist: "`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
"`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
The real bummer was waiting for my favourite line to be spoken during the movie and it never made it through :(