Re:Where is Stephen King dead posts!? troll sleepi (Score 1)

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Very sorry you felt that way about the HHGG series. I personally felt that "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" and "So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish" were just as good, if not better, than "Hitchhiker's Guide". And all five books (six, counting the short "Young Zaphod...") make up one of the most original and brilliant works of science fiction (slash philosophy, slash theology, slash anthropology, etc. etc.) to date.

I'm not sure if it's possible to use the words 'milked' and 'Douglas Adams' in the same sentence, but somehow you've managed. Face it, the man wrote a handful of books in over twenty years time. That's about 1/60th of what... oh, just to pull a name out of a hat, Stephen King has managed to mill out in his time. The difference is that every book Adams put out had character and depth. And you can find King's greatest hits at a supermarket near you.

Sorry if that sounds a bit defensive, but Douglas and I had one great thing in common: I greatly dislike people who like to talk about things they know nothing about, and he felt the same. And there's an awful lot of that going on in this thread. Douglas stopped writing Hitchhiker's books because he had nothing else to say; in fact, read "Mostly Harmless" and you'll see how he was feeling about the subject. He went on to write the Dirk Gently books, which are brilliant, and "Last Chance to See", on the subject of wildlife conservation, is probably my favorite... it was his. The "Meaning of Liff" books are indescribably funny.

Anyway, to sum up, I'm glad you enjoyed the first of his books but I honestly feel that his work got better, not worse, through the years.