I love Douglas Adams's writing. His stories aren't the most logical. For the first few pages of his first book, I tended to comapare it with J K Rowling's, since both belonged to the same genre - fantasy - but gave it up as a bad job. There is nothing that makes sense except for the snide comments about England or the people in general.
This is one line I liked a lot. Pay attention at the end..
<..he describes a tense situation, the-time-has-stopped-kind of a situation followed by these lines..>
for example..
....he stared at the humanoids who could be described as cavemen, except for the slight fact that they lived in huts.
They looked very savage to Arthur and the guttural sounds that they emitted made no sense to him. But their actions conveyed that they clearly didn't want company. One of the cavemen moved forward.
Arthur's throat became dry.
Nothing happened.
Nothing continued to happen for the next two minutes.. (!!!)
The last two lines has been there in the first two books of his series. I am reading the third book right now. Will look out for those lines..
Priya, HHGTTG is my favorite book.. A triology of 4 books..that itself tells us about the author. I have read it about 4 times. Forgotten most of it. Some of the dialogues I remember:
ReplyDeletePrefect in the bar before earth is ruined: "time is an illusion , lunch time doubly so"
the book has 2 words in it "don't panic"
and the section about the pan galactic gargle blaster.
and finally when th emachine gives the answer "42" everybody wonders what the question was. "6x7?"
What is life, the Universe and everything?.....
There is lot of philosophy in the book. Meta physical concepts, about infinity and I thoroughly enjoyed the book
It is a sad thing that Douglas Adams died at the age of 42 of cardiac arrest while driving his car. The same year another of my favorite author R.K.Narayan died
Mathangi
whoa! isnt that a coincidence! he dies at the age of 42, n his answer to life, universe n everything is 42!!
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