Also, upon conferring with both Space and Ice Pirates, I've been persuaded to also provide their contribution here in honor of the late, great Douglas Adams.
Now could you guys please untie my cats and get them off the plank?
I like the tv series from bbc as well, it’s a great watch.
The movie was fun but not as good in my opinion.
When everyone was really getting into the movie Don’t Look Up last year I watched it and all it did was make me sad and annoyed so I went back and rewatched the HtG series. Much better experience in all aspects.
I've never understood the love for these books. I tried my damnedest to read them, but quit halfway through the third book once I irretrievably lost what little ever existed of the plot and hadn't cracked a smile in over a hundred pages.
Apparently one of the reasons for the historic rivalry between France and England was their different senses of humor, with the French wit considered much classier. Anyway, plenty of people would agree with you, though I think the books are hilarious.
I saw HGTG posted on a reddit book forum about 2 years back: it was slated badly. It really put me off a reread. Comments like it hadn't age well, and just plain silly came to mind. I caved and started it again. I was hooked from page 1 all over again. It really does fall into the marmite book category.
I really like them because they feel like how the inside of my brain looks.
It may be that you don’t jive with how Adam’s writes?
He did Dirk Gentlys Holistic Detective Agency if you want to try another series but if it’s not for you no worries.
Tbh, I think the first two books are the best and it finishes perfectly for me there. It feels like that's where he was on a roll creatively and his heart was really still into it. That might not actually be true, but that's how it feels.
Douglas Adams himself didn't like the third book although I still like bits of it. The fourth and fifth I don't enjoy much - they're not bad books, just not very funny.
I didn't laugh at all reading them, and I did occasionally lose track of the plot, but I absolutely enjoyed the books for their creativity and writing. I found it flowed well, and it was like looking into how the author thinks and feels. As with all art though, the experience is very subjective.
That sounds like how I felt about the Confessions of a Shopaholic movie. It was perfectly passable but it also felt like they tried to cram the entire series into one 90 minute movie