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Nick Webb is the
author responsible for the official Douglas Adams
biography "Wish you were here". It is a
genuinely affectionate book and should be the Bible
for every Douglas Adams fan. Nick describes Douglas'
complicated and witty mind exaggeratingly well, and we
get a good glimpse at how the big man functioned.
The book is filled
with funny anecdotes and interesting facts, and Nicks
way of writing the book clearly owes to Douglas. It's
a nice book about a nice man, written by another nice
man. If you buy it, you will never regret it.
"I knew Douglas and
liked him a lot. Fortunately my affection survived the
process of researching for the book - and that's not
always the case as most grown-ups have done something
pretty dodgy at some time in our lives." writes
Nick. "It is a bit presumptuous (as Boswell said of his
bio of Dr. Johnson) to imagine that you can squeeze a
life into a few hundred pages. Wish You Were Here
has an unconventional structure for an unconventional
bloke. I hope that it will give a flavour of the man,
and be good company for an hour or two - like Douglas
himself."
Nick
himself appears in the documentary film "Life,
the Universe and Douglas Adams" wearing one
of Douglas suits, which, surprisingly, appeared to
almost corresponds to Nicks measurements...
Hardback:
ISBN
0755311558
Paperback: ISBN
0755311663
Buy it by clicking the cover above or below.
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