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[Strife26]

There's some fun stuff under the urban dictionary french military victories page.

[MrWiggles]

I have a definition on on there, and I knew the person who put cock vampire on urban dictionary.

[Jackrabbit]

I'll agree that he is hyped up a little. Adams is good, but compared to Terry Pratchett (whom he is constantly compared to) he's kinda "meh".

You kinda mixed them up 

Sacrifice the blasphemer on an altar made of Discworld novels!

No matter how much I love Adams I must concur. Death to the non-believer!

[Awayfarer]

I'll agree that he is hyped up a little. Adams is good, but compared to Terry Pratchett (whom he is constantly compared to) he's kinda "meh".

You kinda mixed them up 

Sacrifice the blasphemer on an altar made of Discworld novels!

No matter how much I love Adams I must concur. Death to the non-believer!

*scratches head*

I did say that I like both, right?

Sure, Adams has loads of wit, but I find that I don't really give much of a damn about his characters.

Folks like Brutha, Captain Carrot, and King Verence feel more psychologically "real" to me. I can look in my own life and find people with similar traits. Pratchett can often put into words ideas that I would not have thought possible to describe.

It's hard to ignore the sheer amount of material Sir Terry (just remembered he was knighted earlier this year) has put out. On my bookshelf I count 35 Discworld novels and his world--even if it gets a bit confused at times--is much more fleshed out. Adams has, what, 5 Hitchhiker novels? The fourth one is decent but feels superfluous. The fifth one has its moments but does not hold a candle to any of the previous ones and is really, really depressing. The Dirk Gently books are alright but nothing spectacular.

Again, I like both. I'll buy that they're equals in wit, but not in psychological profundity or verbal dexterity.

[Jackrabbit]

No no, you misunderstand, I think what Puck said was blasphemous!

[Jreengus]

No no, you misunderstand, I think what Puck said was blasphemous!

As did I.

[LegoLord]

The Discworld was born of Terry Pratchett's desire to make a fantasy version of the Hitchhiker's Guide.  An answer to the question "What if HGttG was done in a fantasy setting?"

It then evolved into something else entirely by the third Discworld book.  So the answer, as it turned out, would be that it would go out of the authors control into a direction he did not originally intend.

But then he likes it and so decides to keep rollin' with it.

[Jackrabbit]

Thank god

[Awayfarer]

No no, you misunderstand, I think what Puck said was blasphemous!

As did I.

I thought those sounded funny. 

[SolarShado]

Read the entire Hitchiker's Guide series. Personally, i thought the whole thing was rather "meh". I rarely get british humor. By the last book, i was just reading, not even close to understanding it anymore. Maybe it's just me.

Terry Pratchet, on the other hand, is good. I've read most of the Diskworld novels (don't own any, yay for the library!) and thought they were all good. Haven't read many of his other books, but they were good to.

And don't kill him on an altar made of good books, you'll ruin them! Use lousy books.

[LegoLord]

I think the first three Hitchhiker's Guide books were good.  The last two kind of ruined it for me.

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I hated how he killed off Marvin.

[Jackrabbit]

Spoiler that.

Yeah, I only really liked the first two

[MrWiggles]

By the last two, he (Douglas) hated the hitch hiker fan base, and didn't want to write it any more new stuff from it. He wrote the last two bad on purpose, as a not so subtle 'fuck off'.

Your suppose to dislike them.

[Jackrabbit]

Are you sure? Where did you here this?

[MrWiggles]

Are you sure? Where did you here this?

o.0
Sci Fi fandom. You won't find it in any interviews, or some such. But being raised in sci fi fandom, and hanging out with the authors (Nivin, sorta of an ass), you hear theses stories. One of the few times Douglas came over the pound for a convention, there aren't a lot of popular remarks from him. He contested doing the q & a session, and did not attempt to hide it.

He also hated writing. Which is odd, since he was an author.