So Long and thanks for all the fish......

[ptw]

my favourite author is dead at 49.

Adams was the author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (in 4 parts). Also Dirk Gently, the Meaning of Liff and many others.

He was 49 and died whilst working out in a gym....he leaves a wife and a 6 year old daughter.

I am very sad.

I have read "The Guide" books over and over and still find bits which make my eye's water.

He was one of the most original writers I have read, and is able to ridicule the seriousness with which people treat some aspects of life.

RIP

ptw

 

[Spogs]

PTW, I am devistated. Hadn't heard until I read this thread. I've read, watched, and listened to everything by Douglas Adams in fact I was listening to HHGTTG on tape for the hundredth time in the car on the way to Adelaide on the weekend.

I don't know if anyone else ever played the old computer game of HHGTTG but it was a text based adventure that had you in stitches every step of the way. Also came with pocket fluff, a badge the read 'don't panic' in large freindly letters and a pair of peril sensitive sunglasses that turned completely black at the first sign of trouble (which was all of the time).

His book 'Last Chance to See' was a brilliantly witty but troubling travelog of his trips to various parts of the earth to see some of the endangered animal species of the world and well worth a read.

Hopefully we'll all meet up with him for a final meal and a pan-galactic gargleblaster at the restaurant at the end of the universe.

 

[Uncle Steve]

It has been proposed that the great man be honoured on May 25th. This is to be "official towel day"; have your towel on you at all times on this day.

I forget where I read about this - try www.douglasadams.com or www.h2g2.com for more details.

It's a pity that he's not just spending a year dead for tax reasons. Wouldn't it be appropriate if he was to come back as a bowl of petunias?

 

[jod23]

Yeah thats a great shame, i loved Hitchhikers Guide. Absolutely classic book, the only book i have ever read that was funnier were the Red Dwarf books.

RIP.