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From: ramage@ece.scarolina.edu (Dan Ramage)
Subject: Last Chance To See
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Distribution: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Date: 31 Dec 92 01:24:00 GMT

For those who haven't read this book, you gotta go out and get
it.  I just finished and I loved it.  The humour in the book
comes not only from Adams' writing style, but from the people
they meet along the way.  Oh one word of warning, when you go
to the bookstore and tell them what book you want and the author
the first place they will take you is to the sci-fi rack
and point of the HHGTTG.  It should be in the nature section, well
that's where I found it in my local bookstore.  I still haven't
been able to find The Meaning of Liff, is it out of print?

			
Dan Ramage
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: TIME TRAVEL
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:26:44 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>>The truth about Time Travel is:
>> 
>>    It only exists in the mind..
>>    
>>    It is mathematically possible to construct a working time machine, however,
>>the world will end before such technology exists, therefore, a time machine will
>>never exist, which is why no one ever comes back in time from one...
>> 
>>    Make SENSE????
>
>It's bloody obvious you don't know what you're talking about.
>The technology, while it doesn't exist in the here-and-now as we know it,
>is AVAILABLE.  The equipment was brought back from the "future". While
>it would seem that the technology required is out of league for our planet
>in this century, you should also remember that in the future (yes, 'remember
>the future'), physical technology recedes inversely to theoretical technology
>so that it is possible to construct these increasingly-complex devices and
>machinery using more common parts...currently, a time machine can be built
>from gadgets in Radio Shack , to the tune of $218.38 (tax included).
>

oh really? you wouldn't happen to have a schematic, would you?

>Sure, a little pricy, and very risky if you don't know what you're doing, 
>which you don't, so forget it.
>
>It is hoped (in the future, not the present) that this machinery will be
>generated from leaves and clumps of dirt, which of course, they are.
>So double-whammy, we have the tools, not the technology. Bloody writhing shame.
>
>By the way, you die an extremely entertaining death, if a little foolish.
>Remember, bungy jumping is not government-regulated.
>
>SHAKRIL SHANKARAT (HIKAI%#HIKAI*#)  (you'll understand in about 212 years)
>
>Andrew "photon" Millen


-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Friday, 1 Jan 1993 10:56:55 MST
From: <AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: MH: 5th in a 9-part Trilogy

Just out of curiosity, why do you think there will be nine parts in the
trilogy?
From: loki@orthanc.freeside.com (Biggles)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Another book? (was Re: doug)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 10:21:20 CDT
Distribution: world               
Organization: Society for Balrog and Nazgul Understanding and Recognition

cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
>
> 
>    >In article <13@jptcs.COM>, Steve.Kilbey%bbs@jptcs.com (Steve Kilbey) writes:
>    >> Could there possibly be another? I hope there are no more Dirk books.
> 
> The Hitch-Hikers radio shows were amusing at the time, and the books raised a
> few laughs, but I much prefer the Dirk Gently books.  It's actually possible
> to re-read them several times without throwing the things in the bin.  Maybe
> it's just that they haven't been done to death like HHGTTG.
> --
>       -- Chris.       cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk   (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)
> 
Bravo, I think the Dirk Gently books have been vastly under-rated.  I'm not
going to say they're better than the hitchhikers trilogy, but if you look
at the individual books, DGHDA (_Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency_, 
since I don't think we've ever mentioned the whole book's title) I think 
easily beats some of the later books.  That and the second book, LDTTOTS, 
are filled with inside jokes, and stuff that a lot of people don't get at
first.  I read DGHDA for my first time and was unimpressed.  The second time
I read it (about a year or so later) and I thought it was one of the best
books I've ever read.  The simple fact was I didn't understand much of it
the first time.



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From: john7552@mach1.wlu.ca (Niall Johnson u)
Subject: Re: Last Chance To See
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Distribution: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:57:24 GMT

In article <ramage.725765040@tesla> ramage@ece.scarolina.edu (Dan Ramage) writes:
>For those who haven't read this book, you gotta go out and get
>it.  I just finished and I loved it.  The humour in the book
>comes not only from Adams' writing style, but from the people
>they meet along the way.  Oh one word of warning, when you go
>to the bookstore and tell them what book you want and the author
>the first place they will take you is to the sci-fi rack
>and point of the HHGTTG.  It should be in the nature section, well
>that's where I found it in my local bookstore.  I still haven't
>been able to find The Meaning of Liff, is it out of print?

Agreed. "Last Chance to See" is probably one of DNA' better books; at least
IMHO.
I've read all of his books repeatedly and I think LCTS stands up to
re-reading better than some of the others. It's a bittersweet book and is
well worth the effort to find it.

Re: "The Meaning of Liff" - I'm not sure if the original version is still
available but the updated "Deeper Meaning of Liff" should be about - ask
your bookstore to check their 'Books in Print' guide.
However I feel that it is somewhat difficult to get in the US market. I've
seen it in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada though.


Ciao

Niall Johnson,
Dept. of Geography,
Wilfrid Laurier University.
     john7552@mach1.wlu.ca
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: s14109jo@UMASSD.EDU
Subject: LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING
Reply-To: s14109jo@UMASSD.EDU
Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:29:59 GMT

Well

    I own the first three hitchiker paperbacks and bought the hardcover
edition of the whole serious ( up to that ZAPHOD short story). I read 
up to SLATFATF way back and started all over again and am currently
on LTUAE in the hardcover collection. So it will be a little bit
before I get to MOSTLY HARMLESS. But I think SLATFATF is my least favorite.
But who cares. I don't know. Life sucks then you die. Then you reincarnate
as a fly. 

    Also...if you don't have it already..get THE HITCHIKER RADIO SCRIPTS..
real good...I wanna but DONT PANIC someday....when the universe ends..

----------------
Joe Olivier
----------------
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: tagg@hg.uleth.ca (Nathaniel Tagg)
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless
Reply-To: tagg@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:21:24 GMT

In article <Bzzt12.FEs@vcd.hp.com>, johne@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Eaton) writes:
>Don't expect mind candy from DA.
>
>Most writers come up with an interesting storyline which they present to the
>reader in bits and pieces. The hero follows all the clues and then neatly
>wraps up the story and explains everything to the reader in the last three
>pages. DA does all that except he never bothers to explain to the reader
>what actually happened. 
>
>
>
>John Eaton
>!hp-vcd!johne

     Indeed, this is always what I have found so delightful about D.A. I grew
up with the HHG, and I am a great SF fan, and would-be physicist, so I feel
some affinity with how DA thinks, or at least writes.  I can usually see where
he is heading before he gets there, and it gives me a great feeling of
satisfaction to have figured it out, without haveing to do all that tedious
mucking about with denoument.

------- Nat
From: dak@shannon (Pierre Baillargeon)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:30:16 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Spoiler...

Ben Aveling (bena@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
:
: The guide has not dismantled the earth in the past - people still know
: about it - eg Vogons know it is destroyed - ie they know it once
: existed.  Even though no earth now exists - they used to and may again
: some time in the future - though I don't think DA wants to.
: 
: Question - that reverse time engineering - do you think the Magratheians
: used it ?
: 

  Thinking about this, it would have been a lot funnier if the the different
Earth would have been cheese-shaped instead of sausage.  Remember Magratheians
???  "We're not proud".

--
"Pis Bourassa qui est toujours la.  Y'a pas d'remede contre le SIDA" - French B
...........................................................dak@info.polymtl.ca
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: spm@dar.csiro.au (McEWAN Shane)
Subject: Re: DGHDA questions
Organization: CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:32:06 GMT

djf@bnr.ca (Duane Fowler) writes:
: Hi, all.  I just finished Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and
: am puzzled about a couple of things:
: 
: (Note: Don't read these if you don't want to find out details which could 
: spoil the book for you!)
: 
:    - how did going back to visit Samuel Taylor Coleridge (author of "The
:      Rime of The Ancient Mariner") manage to save the day?

Hmmmmmm, aparently the ghost from the destroyed spaceship visited Coleridge in
a dream and Sam went on to write the "second part" of Kubla Kahn based on that
dream. If you read "Kubla Kahn" you'll notice that there isn't actually a
"second part." What the inportance of the "second part" is I can't quite work
out. *shrug* Anyway, Dirk, by going back to see Sam, stopped him from writing
the "second part" and thus saving humanity.

: 
:    - what did the ghost of Gordon Way really have to do with things?  Was
:      his main purpose to tell Susan of the murder of Ross the magazine
:      editor?

It was good for a joke? Admittedly, I haven't read the book for a while so
I might have forgotten something.

: 
:    - what was that about all the Bach music Reg (the time-travelling
:      professor) had somehow gotten to Susan?

When Reg, Dirk, et al, travelled to the alien mothership in orbit around the
Earth there was music playing within. Obviously Reg transcribed some of the
music and later gave it to Bach.

: 
: Sorry if any of this seems obvious, it didn't seem so to me.

*grin* It took a number of re-readings for me to understand what was going on!

--

  Shane McEwan     CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research    spm@dar.csiro.au
================================================================================
"Smoke me a kipper, Skipper, I'll be back for breakfast." - Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer
================================================================================
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From: phd99@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Ralph Ferneyhough)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Equations (Was Re: Have I Got News For You.)
Date: 23 Dec 92 13:00:51 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

From article <Bz1I19.6oF@wm.estec.esa.nl>, by hevans@estwm0.wm.estec.esa.nl (Hugh D.R. Evans (ESA/ESTEC/WMA Netherlands)):

>
> 	e^(i * pi) + 1 = 0
> 
> The real beauty of this little equation of constants is that is links the most
> valuable constants found in maths.

	You forgot 42.....

BTW - Was it me, or was Douglas Adams just the most boring person that
they have had on HIGNFY - Neil Kinnock was *MUCH* funnier in the
previous episode and the Christmas Review edition last Friday was
absolutely hilarious. Oh well - can't expect DA to have spontaneous wit
as well as an excellently humurous writing style.. *SIGH*

Ralph.
--
      .
              [Believed to be the smallest .sig in the world]
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Wednesday, 30 Dec 1992 23:49:48 MST
From: <AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless

Well, 99% of the book was great... I rather liked all the "mishaps" that
occured, but I think the ending was lacking... I dunno, I just hope there is
a 6th book...
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: DGHDA questions
From: starman@crash.amigans.gen.nz (Robin Halligan)
Date: 26 Dec 92 09:21:16 PST
Reply-To: starman@crash.amigans.gen.nz
Organization: No organisation at all
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

McEWAN Shane (spm@dar.csiro.au) wrote:
: djf@bnr.ca (Duane Fowler) writes:
: : Hi, all.  I just finished Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and
: : am puzzled about a couple of things:
: : 
: : (Note: Don't read these if you don't want to find out details which could 
: : spoil the book for you!)
: : 
: :    - what did the ghost of Gordon Way really have to do with things?  Was
: :      his main purpose to tell Susan of the murder of Ross the magazine
: :      editor?
: 
: It was good for a joke? Admittedly, I haven't read the book for a while so
: I might have forgotten something.

The ghost of Gordon Way was in the middle of a phone call to his sister
when he was killed, He onbly wanted to finish the phone call

--
starman@crash.amigans.gen.nz  (Robin Halligan)
Amigans Public Access UUCP Node Wanganui New Zealand

I'm a K 1 W 1 from the land of the long white cloud
    from the day i begun till the day i'm done
                     I'm a K1W1
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
From: rfunk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert M Funk)
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 05:29:10 GMT

In article <Bzzt12.FEs@vcd.hp.com> johne@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Eaton) writes:
>Most writers come up with an interesting storyline which they present to the
>reader in bits and pieces. The hero follows all the clues and then neatly
>wraps up the story and explains everything to the reader in the last three
>pages. DA does all that except he never bothers to explain to the reader
>what actually happened. 

I thought he told too much of what actually happened.  Sure it was
cryptic, but the last couple pages seemed (to me) to explain pretty
much the whole series.
     ...Not to mention the fact that he practically beats the reader
over the head with the "King" thing.  If you, like Arthur, don't know
what king Ford is referring to by the time they get into the pink
spaceship, you haven't been paying attention.

I've only read the book twice, and I'm sure I'll discover more subtle
ideas if I read it a few more times.  I, for one, am ready for more
Dirk Gently, though.
-- 
Rob Funk                          |Internet: funk.17@osu.edu
 events editor for THE INDEPENDENT|       or cc787@cleveland.freenet.edu
 "It's such a fine line between   |"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good;
   'stupid' and 'clever'."        | Please don't let me be misunderstood"
From: raoul@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Gulledge)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Obscure sighting of DGHDA
Summary: DGHDA spotted in the movie Night Eyes 2
Keywords: DGHDA
Date: 27 Dec 92 11:16:52 GMT
Organization: University of Washington


   A copy of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency appears *very*
 briefly in the movie "Night Eyes 2".

   When the lovers in the movie are fooling around in a bookstore, a 
 nerdy customer pulls out and quickly puts back a copy of DGHDA from 
 the bookshelf he his hiding behind.

   I found this to be quite funny at the time.

   Has anyone else spotted this?


  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
			      Robert Gulledge
			  raoul@u.washington.edu
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: m_rheau@pavo.concordia.ca
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: TIME TRAVEL
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:43:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <Bz3vE1.1Hz@umassd.edu>, s14109jo@UMASSD.EDU writes...
>The truth about Time Travel is:
> 
>    It only exists in the mind..
>    
>    It is mathematically possible to construct a working time machine, however,
>the world will end before such technology exists, therefore, a time machine will
>never exist, which is why no one ever comes back in time from one...
> 
>    Make SENSE????

It's bloody obvious you don't know what you're talking about.
The technology, while it doesn't exist in the here-and-now as we know it,
is AVAILABLE.  The equipment was brought back from the "future". While
it would seem that the technology required is out of league for our planet
in this century, you should also remember that in the future (yes, 'remember
the future'), physical technology recedes inversely to theoretical technology
so that it is possible to construct these increasingly-complex devices and
machinery using more common parts...currently, a time machine can be built
from gadgets in Radio Shack , to the tune of $218.38 (tax included).

Sure, a little pricy, and very risky if you don't know what you're doing, 
which you don't, so forget it.

It is hoped (in the future, not the present) that this machinery will be
generated from leaves and clumps of dirt, which of course, they are.
So double-whammy, we have the tools, not the technology. Bloody writhing shame.

By the way, you die an extremely entertaining death, if a little foolish.
Remember, bungy jumping is not government-regulated.

SHAKRIL SHANKARAT (HIKAI%#HIKAI*#)  (you'll understand in about 212 years)

Andrew "photon" Millen
From: ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Polak)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Douglas Adams books in print (monthly posting)
Date: 4 Jan 93 02:16:07 GMT
Reply-To: ak515@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David Polak)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


 
What follows is an up to  date list of ALL  Douglas Adams books in print
here in the United States.  All prices are  listed  in $U.S. so they may
be different for your country.  Also, some books not listed  here may be
available  in the U.K., but I am not concerned with those. I will try to
post this list  on or about the first each month unless I  get bomabrded
with E-Mail telling me not to post it, but if I don't, I might get angry
letters from  people that want it, so I will most likely post it. If you
loose  yours   and  can't wait 'till the first, E-Mail me at the address 
below and I  will send you a copy. This list is updated as necessary and
is correct to the best of my knowledge.
 
Adams, Douglas & Carwardine, Mark. Last Chance to See. (Illus.).
    240p. 09/1992. Paper. $10.00. (ISBM 0-345-37198-4).
    Ballantine Books, Incorporated.
 
Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. 277p. 11/1992. $20.00. (ISBN
     0-517-57740-2, Harmony). Crown Publishing Group.
 
Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency. 06/1991.
     Paper. $5.95. (ISBN 0-671-74672-3). Pocket Books.
 
Admas, Douglas. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. 05/1991. Paper.
     $5.95. (ISBN 0-671-74606-5). Pocket Books.
 
Adams, Douglas & Carwardine, Mark. Last Chance to See. 02/1991. 
     $20.00. (ISBN 0-517-58215-5, Harmony). Crown Publishing
     Group.
 
Adams, Douglas. Life, the Universe & Everything. 240p. 01/1991.
     Paper. $5.99. (ISBN 0-671-73967-0). Pocket Books.
 
Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. 320p. 02/1991.
     Paper. $5.99. (ISBN 0-671-74251-0). Pocket Books.
 
Adams, Douglas. Douglas Adams, 4 vols. 11/1989. Boxed. Paper. 
     $18.00. (ISBN 0-671-92231-9). Pocket Books.
 
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 10th 
     anniversary ed. 224p. 08/1989. Repr. of 1980 ed. $12.95.
     (ISBN 0-517-52409-9, Harmony). Crown Publishing Group.
 
Adams, Douglas. More Than Complete Hitchhik Fifty-One Point Eighty.
     10/1989. $9.99. (ISBN 0-517-69311-9). Outlet Book Company,
     Incorporated.
 
Adams, Douglas. More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide, 5 bks in
     1. unabr. ed.  634p. 11/1987. $19.95 leather deluxe ed. (ISBN
     0-681-40322-5). Longmeadow Press.
 
Adams, Douglas. Douglas Adams. 09/1986. Paper. $15.80. (ISBN
     0-671-91255-0). Pocket Books.
 
Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. 256p. 
     11/1982. $12.95. (ISBN 0-517-54535-7, Harmony). Crown
     Publishing Group.
 
 
 
 
  
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From: mcodogno@nyx.cs.du.edu (Maurizio Codogno)
Subject: Re: MH: 5th in a 9-part Trilogy
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 21:47:58 GMT

In article <93001.105655AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET> <AUTSW@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:
>Just out of curiosity, why do you think there will be nine parts in the
>trilogy?


to do a tri-trilogy?
to copy Star Wars original project?
to do better than the Foundation?
--
ciao! .mau.
-----
Maurizio Codogno - CSELT UF/DU dept. - Torino Italy
"home" email: mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it
From: m_rheau@pavo.concordia.ca
Newsgroups: alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Douglas Adams is one rich bastard
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:25:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>>>From _The Globe and Mail:
>>>    Mostly harmless, if you like that sort of thing
>>>    Review by Oakland Ross
>>                 who is this guy anyway?
> 
>           He's jus' zis guy, you know.
> 
>Phil.

Gag? Gaggy?! Is that you, Gaggy-boy?  Gaggy come home!
Mozer Halfrunt

------

Mooommy! It's not easy being a brain-care specialist, you know.

I lie. 
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From: johne@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Eaton)
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:24:38 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

jsmcgi01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu wrote:
: I found the book Mostly Harmless, the fifth book in the increasingly
: inaccurately names 'Hitchhiker's Trilogy', to be average.
: 
--------------------------
It seems as if DA believes that since it's a lot of work to write a book then
it should be a lot of work to read a book. To really understand his works you
better be prepared to do some research. Check out references in his past books
to see how they fit. Go to the library and read that stupid jabberwocky poem.
Don't expect mind candy from DA.

Most writers come up with an interesting storyline which they present to the
reader in bits and pieces. The hero follows all the clues and then neatly
wraps up the story and explains everything to the reader in the last three
pages. DA does all that except he never bothers to explain to the reader
what actually happened. 



John Eaton
!hp-vcd!johne


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