Douglas Adams Continuum (DAC)

Yes. I actually am in the middle of doing it myself, reading the books I mean.
It's actually more interesting now, they have been maturing a bit, much like cheese does in the fridge if you leave it for a while. One can't leave it for too long though, then it may become impossible to find under the fields of green.
I don't read them in the correct order though. I started out by going through 'so long & thanks for all the fish', and am now in the middle of 'restaurant', then I think I'll do 'life the universe & everything', then perhaps 'mostly harmless', who knows?
It's a pleasure, I do it not to follow some kind of plot, no, I simply said to myself; 'what a wonderful writer Douglas was, I want to read it some more'.
After this I will go back to Dirk. I will dive into this astounding world of his, and see if I can, by any means, get 'lost in a good book', to cite Jasper Fforde, one of the few authors I find in the same disrespectful of everything once perceived as 'normal' stream to the same extent Douglas was.

Peace
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Some tea, perchance? Why can't this blasted machine make a good cup of tea?
Skei (the trying to find reality one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

i have a better idea than that, buy the audio books read by douglas himself, it's spin tinglingly amazing to hear his voice and have the characters come alive in your mind especially when it gets to Agrajag, douglas did a fantastic job of it, i dread to think how long it look to record the whole lot as there must be about 40+hours worth of audio there.
i've listened to the lot 3 times so far and i will never get bored with it.

i've listened to the whole radio series 23 times so far and am getting not so much bored with it but wishing there was more.

i just hope this new book gets adapted to radio.

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Caution: sudden tea breaks

Indeed.
The Audio books are some of the best audio books I have ever listened to (and I listen to a lot) - I must have heard them all at least 10, probably more, times
I have listened to the original radio series ... I don't know but must be getting on for a hundred times over the 26 years?

The "new" radio series, twice. Don't get me wrong, I think Dirk did a great job (apart from the last bit) but it adds nothing to the book readings and leaves a lot out.

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D.
The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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Yeah, I have the audio books too, but I prefer the real thing. Have it on the table, open it, a mere 0.5 seconds, and you're in. Read a bit, stop, look out the window, sun, continue reading. I like listening too, but it's not the same to me.
To each one, his own vessel...
Peace
Skei (the hotblack seems kinda stiff, no? one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Just finished 'restaurant' today, and it's a great piece of literature. That man, what an artist.
No better
Peace
Skei (the loving every syllable one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

Perish the thought.

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Her mouth opened, her eyes patients, the variety of age and constitution as a pullets egg, with some gobbits of fat, and the heavy sand.

(... don't piss us off)

to be honest i first thought that when i heard about the new book but have now come to the comclusion that if it's going to be written and publish then it must be adapted to radio.

just my two peneth

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Am now in the middle of 'Mostly harmless', and like the other ones, loving every word. What a master. I mean, the detail, the feel, the, oh, the 'whatnot' of this masterpiece. Must take a whole lot of guts and such to dare a sequel...
Peace
Skei (the 'he once walked 'pon this soil, like an extraordinary fellow' one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

I love listening to the radio shows when driving home. It keeps me sane through the four hours of flat Kansas land. I should look into the audio books though. Didn't Douglas do Agrajag on the radio shows? His Agrajag voice cracks me up!

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

from what i've read, Douglas had sadly past away before the later radio shows where his voice is heard as Agrajag so i believe they used his voice as agrajag from the audio book., cut and paste plus do some sound alterations to make Agrajag sound more pissed off, worked a treat.

the audio book in my opinion is the best of the lot, not sure how many hours worth there is as Douglas covered all 5 books but lets put it this way, i do about 6 hours driving a day and it took me 2 1/2 weeks to listen to the lot.

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Continuing to read 'Life, the universe and everything' on this my odyssey through the set.
Just started reading it right now, and at once met up with another love of mine: 'The long dark teatime of the soul'. You know when Arthur sits there in the cave, right at the beginning, well, he recapitulates the last time he'd been insulted, which was - then ' 2 years ago, when 'wowbagger the infinitely prolonged' came down through the clouds and insulted Arthur.
Then it goes on to discuss what wowbagger dislikes in general, and sunday afternoons are worst. I quote:
"In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know you've taken all the baths you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o´clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul." (Adams, D. 'Life, the universe and everything' p 5)

So there we have our beloved teatime, in connection with a lifetime long ago in a cave... And Wowbagger insulting people.
Peace
Skei (the infinitely prolonged one)

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Ophelia was a preference, not humanly accessible, not as such.

I'm back reading the coffee-table-sized Illustrated Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and it's brilliant. I'll be skipping Restaurant until the words actually fade from memory, moving swiftly on the Life, The Universe... and it's sequels. Actually been a number of years since i read book 4, it's funny how stuff from the radio adaptations replaces the original tomes...

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"If you are disappointed in any way with our service, then please. Don't hesitate. FEEL disappointed." Fentible.

I've been listening to all my audio books lately, the ones on cassette anyway. I've got Douglas reading all 5 books, which I'm sure many of you do, and I have been loving them lately. I've listened to the last 3 books quite a few times, but took a long time to pick up the first two because I felt I knew them so well that I wouldn't need to listen to them again. I knew them so well from the record albums and the tv series, but hadn't read the books enough times, so there are lot of differences that have been a joy.
I don't have the original radio recordings (for the first two books), but the record albums are similar, but probably closer to the tv series. I recently bought a turntable with a USB attachment for the sole purpose of recording off all of my albums, and the Hitchhiker's albums are in the first wave of stuff to record. I'm excited to listen to them again, even though I practically memorized them at the time. And now I should be able to tell the difference between the two Ford Prefects, as I always thought it was David Dixon.

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It's terrible, but I guess songs are just interesting things to do with the air.
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