Geek intervention required.
You’ve got a stuck-up hapless Englishman, an alien named Ford Prefect with a towel and a guidebook, a paranoid android named Marvin, and a two-headed Galactica president named Zaphod. What’s not to like?
If you can’t laugh at ‘Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?’ I can’t help.
Well, in all honesty, it’s not for everyone. Yet if you ever wore a pocket protector and don’t like this, I’d seek professional help.
Try the Radio Play version (posted above somewhere) it might give you a better sense of the tone of the novels.
I’ll try that Pike.
And Talos, technically I never wore a pocket protector. But the way it’s presented, I have no reason to care about any of them.
*Editting to add that I am in no way offended or anything…my point probably didn’t come across that well, I tend to be terse sometimes & don’t fully explain what I mean.
These characters are definitely quirky, but I really haven’t been given a reason to really care about any of them. Sure they’re weird & a little funny, but I really neeed some kind of personal attachment to a character to really get into a book. I have not found that with this one. Perhaps it’s the same problem I have with the first harry Potter. This will sound very stuck up, but I don’t know how to explain it any better. The writing feels geared toward teenagers & I really don’t have much in common with them anymore.
I will, however, try the radio thingie Pike linked, perhaps it will be something like Shakespeare for me. I can’t read any of the plays, I am much more engaged with it when seeing it performed.
Even, or especially, if you don’t get into it, call into the talkshoe/DTA frak party. It’d be really interesting to hear from someone for whom it just didn’t take.
When is the Talkshoe party again? January 3?
Thank you thank you thank you thank you! I’m so bored at work tonight!
Along the same lines, I have a .PDF file of the series if anyone’s interested in it.
Hooray, I found my leather-bound copy.
I finished the first four chapters last night. The thing I love about his writing is how he combines peals of wisdom with really funny humor. He uses humor to make us see ourselves and the universe in a different light. It’s really clever.
How would everyone feel about a Saturday, Jan. 3 @ 10 a.m. CT time for the H2G2 TalkCast?
Can’t promise, but will try.
Sounds good to me!
H2G2 TalkCast info:
January 3, 2009 @ 10 a.m. CT
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=31352&cmd=tc
See you there!
I’m home with one of my kids who is resting up for her basketball game this afternoon.
So I’ll probably listen in and lurk on the H2G2 'cast, but I probably won’t call in.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the TalkCast. It was great time, and I’m totally looking forward to next month’s I, Robot 'cast.
BTW: I’ve re-submitted the DTA stream to iTunes so hopefully you’ll see it back sometime this week. In the meantime you can access (and download) all Direct-To-Archive podcasts from the GWC website or via the “Direct Download” link in the podcast forum post.
This was a lot of fun. I was glad I was able to participate. I think this book rewired my brain when I first read it, so it’s special to me.
Gald also that I was able to call in and not just listen in. Normally on a Saturday during the day I wouldn’t be free, but the XO and 6 year old were at yoga class, and the older kid was happily occupied watching TV upstairs. So I was free to speak freely.
You keep doing books I read a long time ago. I may just have to listen to this one unless I finish Watchmen quickly and start reading I Robot. Well it is a short book.
I really wish I had had the chance to join you on this.
Susan Sheridan (who played Trillian in the BBC TV series) did fine, with what she was given. DA sort of admits that in the documentry of the TV series. I don’t think the role she was given was as meaty as was the one given to Zooey Deschanel.
I just realized that WikiP has a section devoted to the H2G2 Radio Series, and it breaks down the differences b/t the various versions (I seem to have the US version) and the books.