/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1250521]

Help me out, /lit/.

I've been thinking of getting this for a few years now, but have never been able to decide if it is worth the price. Would you recommend the entire series for $25 US?

[Anonymous No.1250522]

The BBC radio show is much better than the actual books are, download it or find the LP at a yard sale for less than 5 dollar. Spend the other 20 on an your favourite intoxicant.

[anonymous No.1250530]

Don't ever listen to a British person when they tell you something on the BBC is better than things not on BBC.
Get the books.
The BBC version is not better.
British people are a strange backward Island people but somehow Douglas Adams wrote some really funny not-backward books. He's probably the exception.

[Anonymous No.1250531]

>>1250522
In fairness this is what the guide would tell you to do.

Personally i liked the first few books and I've picked up afew copies over the years including a big and fancy omnibus like that one. Never been able to read through. The individual books read alot better if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.1250532]

>>1250530
You realise that the Radio Series was the original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and almost all of Douglas Adams works where owned to some degree by the BBC, certainly written for them.

[Anonymous No.1250534]

Why would you buy that, OP? The first two books are the only good ones. Third is okay, and the last two are dreadful.

[Anonymous No.1250536]

>>1250534

Hence the question posed.

[Anonymous No.1250537]

>>1250530
I'm not even British, if you have any love for Douglas Adams' humour and you've had the chance to compare, you'd know the radio show is a better medium and a better realisation of it.

[Anonymous No.1250538]

Why is there no version of HGTTG that doesn't have a horrible cover?

I mean, is that green ball a planet, or what? Jesus fuck, they could do so much, and every time, they just don't bother.

[Anonymous No.1250539]

>>1250538
The american publications have that annoying green thing on them some of the European copies are great. My favourite cover is the one divided in four photos with tea cups and the like. So u can jumble the books around and make different combinations. You know, if you had too much time on your hands.

[Anonymous No.1250540]

>>1250538
a challenger appears

[anonymous No.1250542]

>>1250537


You're clearly a British subject, whether you're in Britain proper or in one of the colonies. British through and through, or at least owned and downtrodden by the British monarchy. You clearly aren't a free member of the Democratic Republic of the United States of America.

>>1250532
Your point being?

OP-I probably wouldn't buy this giant ass volume because this is the sort of thing I'd read on the subway and I'd want to put the books into my pocket. It's also difficult to carry this and your towel at the same time.

[Anonymous No.1250546]

>>1250542
You are the worst kind of poster this board has, back up your stupid claims with arguments instead of trying to sound "witty".

[Anonymous No.1250547]

>>1250540
>movie poster cover

[Anonymous No.1250552]

>>1250542
You now realise that dispite how hard you're trying to sound clever, your point is nothing other than 'don't listen to British people'

Does that really sound like something anyone other than a complete fool would say?

I enjoy your reply accusing me of being a European whose words have no value.

Sage for not on topic.

[Anonymous No.1250556]

OP here.

How about less insulting of british people and putting down of said flat jokes and more telling me what i should and shouldn't buy?

[anonymous No.1250559]

>>1250552

Well yeah, not listening to British people would be the first step. And if you got the BBC radio version you'd have to listen to lots and lots of British people. They would be talking at you with their accents and their ou for color and ou for favorite, all those extra vowels...eugh!
And then you might get infected with the dreaded British humour (!) is superiour to all outher humour plague. It has hurt many a non-British, basically made them a pariah in their own communities. Outcasts. And then they're forced to attend showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show for socialization.
The whole thing is too frightening.

[Anonymous No.1250565]

>>1250547
Don't forget:

>new york times best selling author
>92 page making of

[Anonymous No.1250564]

>>1250559
OOOOOH, you're a troll! Haha, good show, old bean. I honestly thought you were retarded before.

[Anonymous No.1250573]

douglas adams was a pretty froopy drood. he always knew where his towel was and doesn't afraid of anything.

[Anonymous No.1250577]

don't forget to read dirk gently's holistic detective agency by douglas adams

or douglas adams favorite book of his own and the least read: Last Chance to See. last chance to see is a non fiction but quite funny and it deals with adams himself travelling the world to look at endangered animals before they go extinct and make fun of them and such with his typical wit. one of my fav parts was when he was trying to find a condom to go over the microphone to stick into the river to find river dolphins in china, but nobody in china at the time really used condoms and they kept pointing him at birth control pills and giving him "you're a retard" looks. that species of dolphin recently went extinct so adams totally called that one.

[Anonymous No.1250580]

>>1250577

It is now my ambition to travel the world and make fun of endangered species to their faces.

[Anonymous No.1250587]

no douglas adams is a shitty wirter loved by hipsters and niggers.

[Anonymous No.1250601]

>>1250587
Good sir, you forget nerds and atheists.

[anonymous No.1250602]

>>1250564


Fuck.
I always mess up a good troll by taking things too far.
Seriously though, I'd rather read the book than listen to Brits reading.

[Anonymous No.1250609]

>>1250602

Not reading, acting.

[Anonymous No.1250915]

I've got a black/gold hardcover edition that includes all the HGTTG books. I got it after seeing the movie. I'd say look for that edition, it's good.

[Anonymous No.1250934]

>>1250587

Don't forget millions of normal people who unlike you have no pretensions about literaure and read what they enjoy, not what other people tell them to enjoy.

You, are a pile of wankers.

[Anonymous No.1251038]

>>1250915
in regards to that picture. reading the bible or the koran instead of any other book is like eating donuts and twinkies in place of a real meal.

better to read nothing then religious hogwash propaganda bullshit.

but then again multiple surveys have been done and it turns out that there are more athesists and agnostics that have read the bible then actual religious people. seems actually reading it alerts some people to how fucking retarded it is.

[Anonymous No.1251122]

>>1251038

How much of the Bible and the Koran have you read? They're both incredibly well-written.

Also the HHG books are great and you'll finish all of them in like a week.

[Anonymous No.1251153]

I got all 5 books for €9.90,
yall mad?

[Anonymous No.1251157]

>>1251038

Let's herp some derps and be militant athiests, everybody!

Telling people how to live is FUN

stupid teenagers.

[Anonymous No.1251167]

>>1251153

I could get them all for less than 10 dollars if i wanted to. the question is whether to get a nice one that you can keep on a shelf or a shitty used one that would get thrown out or given away right away.

[Anonymous No.1251399]

>>1251038

You're reading WAY too much into this I made that with E-Readers vs books in mind.

pic related

[Anonymous No.1251431]

>>1251157
But religious beliefs dictate and influence the way everyone lives in turn (abortion, anti-gay laws etc.). Isn't it worse to let people believe these backwards-ass ideas and allow them to impede progress?