Two massively nostalgic books from when I first started to love reading, both of which I've gone a few years since revisiting. Satisfying, breezy stuff (Westing Game's occasional weird relationship with racial identity excepted), and the Adams reminds me that I haven't reread any of his books in years. Time to restart down the diminishing-returns road of the Hitchhiker's Trilogy (sic)? Or, for that matter, to revisit Raskin's entire ouvre? PERHAPS!Oh, and if you guys haven't read these? Do. They're swell!
Hey Pat, have you read A Long Dark Teatime of the Soul and whatever the other one of those is? I remember listening to an audiobook of it when i was a lad, and thinking it was wonderfully weird (Thor is a major character, if i recall).
ReplyDeleteYeah, Long Dark Teatime of the Soul (and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, I think is its companion piece) are the two Adams ones that I've been jonesing for lately. I remember them both being dementedly genius, and I'm discovering that my sense of humor seems to owe a crazy amount to Adams, more so than I would have recalled being the case.
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to point out that as much as Martin Freeman is solid Arthur Dent casting (no, I'm not a real fan of the movie, a few funny flourishes aside) it will always break my heart that the late-90s film adaptation that Adams was working on, due to star Hugh Laurie as Dent and (if I remember right) Jim Carey as Zaphod, was never made.
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