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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on May 9, 2003 11:33:29 GMT -5
Its one of the funniest and best books I have read. it wonderful please read if you havnt allready ??
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Post by ForgetMyName on May 10, 2003 20:24:40 GMT -5
Hmm... I haven't read it. Haven't heard of it either But I can check it out
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on May 11, 2003 3:30:24 GMT -5
Hmm... I haven't read it. Haven't heard of it either But I can check it out yes kelly do that. It makes one think and laugh a lot.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on May 20, 2003 14:32:50 GMT -5
Chapter 1
Introduction
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone- about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.
This is not her story.
But it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its consequences.
It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or heard of by any Earthman.
Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.
in fact it was probably the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor - of which no Earthman had ever heard either.
Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one - more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
But the story of this terrible, stupid Thursday, the story of its extraordinary consequences, and the story of how these consequences are inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book begins very simply.
It begins with a house.
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Post by ELSA747 on May 20, 2003 14:36:29 GMT -5
my brother gave it me I love it especially the ball point theory thing
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on May 20, 2003 14:39:50 GMT -5
my brother gave it me I love it especially the ball point theory thing aww I have forgotten that thing. Can you make me remember.
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Post by ELSA747 on May 24, 2003 20:44:25 GMT -5
don't have the book with me
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on May 26, 2003 12:39:15 GMT -5
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Post by kagee on Jul 3, 2003 11:33:56 GMT -5
Its one of the funniest and best books I have read. it wonderful please read if you havnt allready ?? ive just started to read it, and its all thanks to you sanna! thanx! at the beggining the dude likes to think of [glow=yellow,2,300]yellow[/glow] a lot doent he? ...moo
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jul 5, 2003 10:54:57 GMT -5
ive just started to read it, and its all thanks to you sanna! thanx! at the beggining the dude likes to think of [glow=yellow,2,300]yellow[/glow] a lot doent he? ...moo oo thank you Im flattered.
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Post by John on Jul 5, 2003 19:59:54 GMT -5
heard of it, want to read it, was and am going to get it from the library
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jul 6, 2003 2:06:27 GMT -5
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Post by John on Jul 6, 2003 14:26:42 GMT -5
mate? heehee...
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jul 7, 2003 5:10:29 GMT -5
mate? heehee... WHATS WRONG WITH MATE ?
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Post by John on Jul 7, 2003 12:11:59 GMT -5
it sounds australian, and austalian ppl are funny.
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