On 8 Aug 2009 14:05:27 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>It's the only one he achieved ahead of schedule, sadly. 49 is too
>early. :(
>
When the gods speak even authors listen.
>> It has been years since I've read anything by him.
>
>I listen to Hitchhiker's at least once a year. I know the primary and
>secondary phases well enough to recite along with the recordings.
>
I think that I prefered the Dirk Gently series. But that may be because HHGTTG
was so cult-ish ;)
>He had such a way with metaphors and the English language as a whole -
>"they hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't", for
>example.
>
A bit like Pratchett IMO :)
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Regards
Stephen
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