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But that is exactly what i meant saying
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:07:51
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hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:08:38
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@plasmadog, I have to agree... the 4 books in the Douglas Adams trilogy
Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Restaurant at the end of the universe
Life, the universe and everything
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So long, and thanks for all the fish
never read any of his detective ones though
looking forward to the HHGTTG movie next year
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:12:54
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I think Anna Karinera is a great author! Bwahahahaha... And seriously, "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is stunning.
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:15:46
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'Unlimited Power' by Anthony Robbins. Great book. Also, 'Awaken the Giant within You' by the same author.
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:19:46
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@massuer-never heard of those books. What are they about?
@absinthebri-have you read East of Eden! Absolutely BRILLIANT!
@ayush-im confused.
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:23:00
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No, Kim, newer read East of Eden. Another good book is "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:27:09
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@kim so am I!
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:34:08
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that's the one with the machine that etches out sins into the prisoner's backs right?
no wait thats the penal colony i think
and you should definitely read East of Eden. Awesome book!
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:35:00
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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, or HHGTTG is the story of a most remarkeable elsectronic book called "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"
it starts off with Arthur Dent waking up to find builders wanting to knock his house down to make way for a bypass. It turns out that Arthur didn't know about this, mostly because the plans had been buried in a cabinet in a basement at the local council. While he is trying to stop the bulldozer from knocking his house down his friend, Ford Prefect (who Arthur doesn't know is from another planet somewhere in the vicinity of beetlejuice) comes along and tries to take Arthur off to the pub for some alcohol because he has found out that the vogon constructor fleet is coming to demolish the earth to make way for a intergalactic highway. Of course the earthlings don't know about that because the plans have been on display at their "local" star system Alpha Centauri for 50 years. The reason for the alcohol at the pub is to prepare the body for the shock of the matter transfer when Ford Prefect gets them picked up by workers on the Vogon ships.... and so the story goes on etc etc.
They meet Zaphod Beeblebrox, inventor of the pan galactic gargle blaster, the most potent drink in the universe, get picked up from deep space moments before they would die, and when it seems very improbably they will live, by the ship which Zahpod has stolen with the improbability drive in it after being thrown of the vogon ship. They go to the mythical planet of Magrathea where the earth was originally commissioned by the mice who are, in fact, beings from another dimension who project themselves into our space as mice and built with the sole purpose of finding the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. There they meet Slartibartfast who did the coastlines and fijords of scandinavia.
oh there is so much more...
it started as a book which the BBC made into a famous radio series in the 70'sand then became a BBC series which you can buy on DVD and next year there is a movie version
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
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Posted: 2004-09-02 09:42:09
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