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Mar. 15th, 2004
while I'm on the topic
Mar. 15th, 2004 12:30 pmI bought The Salmon Of Doubt with some trepidation, feeling it might in some sense be a cheap cash-in on Adams' popularity and an attempt to squeeze every last drop out of what he'd left behind.
I was very, very wrong.
The "title track" of the book, 12 chapters of an unfinished novel assembled from several versions, is the weakest part, and yet still better than the completed and polished work of some other authors I've read. The rest of the book, though, is wonderful. It's a selection of Adams' public speeches, letters, articles and what not, all as funny as they are thought-provoking - much as you'd expect if you're at all familiar with Adams' work. The introduction to the book by Stephen Fry and the Epilogue (can such a book have an Epilogue?) by Richard Dawkins are both heartbreakingly sad in their descriptions of the loss they both felt - and still feel - on Douglas' death.
Buy this book.
I was very, very wrong.
The "title track" of the book, 12 chapters of an unfinished novel assembled from several versions, is the weakest part, and yet still better than the completed and polished work of some other authors I've read. The rest of the book, though, is wonderful. It's a selection of Adams' public speeches, letters, articles and what not, all as funny as they are thought-provoking - much as you'd expect if you're at all familiar with Adams' work. The introduction to the book by Stephen Fry and the Epilogue (can such a book have an Epilogue?) by Richard Dawkins are both heartbreakingly sad in their descriptions of the loss they both felt - and still feel - on Douglas' death.
Buy this book.
we're doomed
Mar. 15th, 2004 12:32 pmI love this. Rands writes about being doomed. It's so, so true. For six months at Motorola, my desktop wallpaper was a tiled, dark grey on black rendition of Søren's infamous "WE'RE DOOMED" poster from HOTT.BOB. To emphasise the point, I'd printed out the PostScript version of the same poster and stuck it to my whiteboard.
