Hey everyone,
Have you read "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams?
If you feel that you are well-knowledged of this first book in the five-part trilogy, and have a funtrivia account, you should take my quiz on it at link removed. It's a great quiz involving just the intro to the book, and you can look for Part 2 which should be online any day now!

(I'm not sure if I should be advertizing my quiz...)

~~theoryman14

Edited to remove link to quiz - TabbyTom

I'm not sure about their rules on advertising , but your post reminded me that I've been wanting to read that for years. Now that it's on my mind, I can go get it. Thanks.

**offers up a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster for all**

And don't forget your towels...

And remember "DON'T PANIC"!!!!

And if you can't figure it out, I'll lend you my Babel Fish.

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Oh, you're all just a pack of hoopy froods who totally know where their towel's are at, aren't you ?

Dear theoryman14,

It is actually a rule here that you can't advertise your own quizzes in the Forums, otherwise it would be open slather for all the quiz-makers to do it. I am sure you can appreciate that with the hundreds of quizzes that are submitted every day, this would create an impossible situation.

However, while we are on the subject of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", I will take this opportunity to ask a question - purely out of idle curiosity.

I don't remember when I became a Literature editor here - I have a feeling it's been at least a year or two. In all that time, I've only ever seen two or three "Hitchhiker" quizzes submitted. Now suddenly in the last few weeks, we've received quite a number of them. Has the television series been resurrected in the USA or something?

Cheers, MotherGoose

The news is that there's a film being made (at LONG last) of the book, and while I was rather worried about the casting, being a total addict of the books and the radio series (aren't the pictures much better in your head on radio?) when I heard that Martin Freeman (Tim from "The Office") is playing Arthur Dent I was very reassured, and can't wait for it.
So long and thanks for all the fish!

I have never heard the radio show, and the original TV series was shown here (Australia) at ridiculously late hours; however, I have read the books, many times, and loved it!

I must repeat MotherGoose's admonishment about advertising- it is a no-no, for obvious reasons. 50,000 quizzes online could equal 50,000 threads... Terry would age visibly..

PS- I scored 7/10, and when I grow up, I want to be Zaphod!

If you werew Zaphod you'd be so hip you could barely see your pelvis.

Hooowhee...I did not expect so many replies!!!

Who's read all five in the trilogy?
Read any of his other books???

I adored Douglas Adams. I love his inventiveness and view of life. I used to tell my family if he ever came knocking at my door, then, much as I loved my husband and children, I would be gone. When I heard the news about his death and rang the family to tell them, they all, separately, said "Never! And you were going to leave home for him. Just as well you didn't isn't it?"
One of my very favourites was "Last chance to see" and "The meaning of Liff" still makes me laugh out loud.

I was pretty young when the TV series was on PBS here in the USA. My parents watched it, but I only remember seeing one episode, which happened to be the one where the two missiles were turned into a whale and a pot of petunias. Made for interesting TV and certainly piqued the interest of the me-child. Once I hit high school I went through a Douglas Adams and Grant/Naylor phase. I read the Hitchhiker's "trilogy" (including all five plus Young Zaphod) and played Starship Titanic, which I enjoyed. To this day those books remain some of my favorites. I've already read all five to my daughter. (She's almost 2.)

I wouldn't have pictured Mos Def as Ford Prefect, but I think it'll work. I just hope they don't go about flubbing with the books too much. (You know, making them politically correct would just about destroy them.) I'm pretty interested in seeing the Red Dwarf movie, too.

I've got "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts" but I've only read the first story ("The HHGG") and that was way back in 1986 I believe. I really enjoyed it.

However, I have yet to read the other three ("The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", "Life, The Universe and Everything" and "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish").

I can see that I am going to have to read the lot, when I have finished the book I am currently reading (if for no other reason than to edit all those quizzes people are submitting).

Mother Goose, don't forget that there are 5 books in the trilogy. The last one after "So long and thanks for all the fish" is "Mostly Harmless."

Anyone have a favorite word in "The Meaning of Liff"? Or perhaps "The Deeper Meaning of Liff"?

Motspur has been part of our family vocabulary ever since I read it.
MOTSPUR (n) The fourth wheel of a supermarket trolley which looks identical to the other three but renders the trolley completely uncontrollable.
And I've always been fond of SKENFRITH (just up the road a bit from here) (n) The flakes of athlete's foot found inside socks.

Anybody else?

I've got my favorites from "The Meaning of Liff" written down at home, but I'm in Fairbanks so, I'll get back to you on that, ok?

Anyone got a favorite character from Dirk Gently or HG?

Marvin!
He cracks me up

Ha-ha, ya, he's awesome!

"Life...Don't talk to me about life."

I liked Zem, the little mattress from the marches of Squornshellous Zeta that Marvin talks with for a while. If I was forced to decide which of the main characters I liked most, or most ammused me, I would have to say Slartibartfast. He cracks me up. Oh, hmm. Or Arthur, he cracks me up too. Ergh. And Ford! *sigh* I like them all, darn it!

Slartibartfast's throwaway remark about his design for the coastline of Norway -"It won an award, you know..." I can never see pictures of fjords without thinking of him getting his prize. And the idea of an Electric Monk! So, so many ideas and characters. What a mind!

Ya, DNA was a great guy, and he left the last Dirk Gently novel unfinished, anyone know if someone has written an ending?

I, like MG, bought the trilogy in four parts, when I was visiting my sister in the country...after I finished it I found Mostly Harmless...never has a series of books cracked me up so consistently...

...my favourite character in the series would have to be Agrajag, the giant bat-type thing that had a habit of...well....dying....

HA, ya, he was certainly an interesting character that agrajag.

What was your favorite of the characters experiences with the infinite improbability drive?

If you have anything else you thought was cool, ask a question...