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Douglas Adams's "six-part trilogy," The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding multimedia universe that amassed an unprecedented cult of followers and became an international sensation. As a young journalist, Neil Gaiman was given complete access to Adams's life, times, gossip, unpublished outtakes, and files (and became privy to his writing process, insecurities, disillusionments, challenges, and triumphs). The resulting volume illuminates the unique, funny, dramatic, and improbable chronicle of an idea, an incredibly tall man, and a mind-boggling success story. In Don't Panic, Gaiman celebrates everything Hitchhiker: the original radio play, the books, comics, video and computer games, films, television series, record albums, stage musicals, one-man shows, the Great One himself, and towels. And as Douglas Adams himself attested: "It's all absolutely devastatingly true-except the bits that are lies." Updated several times in the thirty years since its original publication, Don't Panic is available for the first time in digital form.… (meer)
This book is all about Douglas Adams creating HHGTTG, from the radio program to the books, TV shows, video games, movies, and more. I love the HHGTTG book and the most recent movie ... but haven't delved into much of the rest of the series.
It was interesting to read about the processes, history, and background of some of the incarnations of Adams' creation. So much I never knew about the series. Some I want to experience myself. Some I have no need to.
If you're a fan of the HHGTTG series in any way, this is a decent read. If you're not ... don't bother; there's a LOT of stuff you won't know, understand, or care about. ( )
I am a huge Hitchhiker's Guide fan, having been first introduced to it in my last year of high school (in 1981) by my grade 13 Chemistry teacher, Mr. Delamatter, one of the most influential teachers I had. He'd passed his copy to a buddy of mine in our little group, and it quickly made the rounds of all of us, before getting it back to our teacher.
Since then, I've read it, and all the sequels (yes, even the sixth one) multiple times.
So when I stumbled on this book accidentally in a used book shop...a Hitchhiker's Guide written by Neil Gaiman? Hell yes, I'm in.
And it was pretty much everything I'd hoped for, written in a similarly irreverent style to Adams, delivering quick hits of facts, and little dollops of humour along the way.
It really is a great little companion to the series. ( )
Affettuosa e ironica biografia del più famoso autore di Fantascienza del mondo. Mi ha fatto venire una gran voglia di ascoltare il programma radio che ha dato origine alla Guida Galattica .
Consiglio spassionato: se sapete l'inglese, Gaiman va ascoltato. I suoi audiolibri sono narrati da lui stesso, e vi assicuro che ha una voce che Omero spostati. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Because she's threatened me with consequences too dreadful even to begin to consider if I don't dedicate a book to her... And because she's taken to starting every transatlantic conversation with "Have you dedicated a book to me yet?"... I would like to dedicate this book to intelligent life forms everywhere. And to my sister, Claire.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The idea in question bubbled into Douglas Adams' mind quite spontaneously, in a field in Innsbruck.
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Douglas Adams's "six-part trilogy," The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy grew from a blip of a notion into an ever-expanding multimedia universe that amassed an unprecedented cult of followers and became an international sensation. As a young journalist, Neil Gaiman was given complete access to Adams's life, times, gossip, unpublished outtakes, and files (and became privy to his writing process, insecurities, disillusionments, challenges, and triumphs). The resulting volume illuminates the unique, funny, dramatic, and improbable chronicle of an idea, an incredibly tall man, and a mind-boggling success story. In Don't Panic, Gaiman celebrates everything Hitchhiker: the original radio play, the books, comics, video and computer games, films, television series, record albums, stage musicals, one-man shows, the Great One himself, and towels. And as Douglas Adams himself attested: "It's all absolutely devastatingly true-except the bits that are lies." Updated several times in the thirty years since its original publication, Don't Panic is available for the first time in digital form.
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It was interesting to read about the processes, history, and background of some of the incarnations of Adams' creation. So much I never knew about the series. Some I want to experience myself. Some I have no need to.
If you're a fan of the HHGTTG series in any way, this is a decent read. If you're not ... don't bother; there's a LOT of stuff you won't know, understand, or care about. (