Douglas Adams rules
 

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitely inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it's always reality that's got it wrong.

This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inadequate"

This has led to some interesting consequences. For instance, when the editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Traal literally (it said "Ravenous beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists" instead of "Ravenous beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists"), they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life for failing to either be beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of the court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf."

-Douglas Adams (from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

Yeah.

i foundhis humor rather predictable, and the hitchiker's guide consequentially dull, but the movie was ok, they keep the good parts & spare the drivel-- really, it's not such a funny book. well depends on everyone's expectations i guess. my cousin, my gastroenterologist was much funnier when read circa 1991. these days, im not sure. but it was.

I think that I have read the 5 books in the trilogy at least 5 times.


but...


...some people really don't enjoy the dry humor.

You read your cousin?

I find Douglas Adams humor to be very Lewis Carroll-like.