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Rascar Capac posted:Yeah, Mostly Harmless is the only bad Hitchiker's book. It reads like Adams was depressed. IIRC that's because Adams was depressed
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Rascar Capac posted:Yeah, Mostly Harmless is the only bad Hitchiker's book. It reads like Adams was depressed. He was, actually, and he didn't think it was fair to end the series on such a dark tone. Then he had a fatal heart attack before he could write another one. Which feels like a natural extension of the HHGTTG story to be perfectly honest.
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Captain Hygiene posted:I lucked out in enjoying audiobooks, between listening in bed and while doing low brainpower stuff, I get through hours a day that I wouldn't have time for if I had to sit down and read visually. I slogged through my last book club book as an audiobook and I was drowning. I felt like I couldn't retain it unless I was laser-focused on it. And it was Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed of all things. I really liked Left Hand of Darkness. Yngwie Mangosteen posted:If you have a lot of trouble processing audio only stuff, and don't have a reason already, maybe get checked for ADHD, it was one of the things my shrink said to convince me to test. ...this explains a lot.
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In hindsight it's pretty drat obvious exactly where Adams ran out of the script from the radio series and started going off on his own - halfway through Life, the Universe and Everything . There's a pretty abrupt tone shift from campy and fun to surreal and pretty bleak. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is just a weird book that contains little humour and feels disconnected from the previous ones. Mostly Harmless is, as someone said, just needlessly cruel.
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I wouldn't necessarily say it was terrible, but Lovecraft Country had a bit in it that made me think, 'was this written by a white guy?' then I looked it up and found out that it was, and that experience kinda turned me off the book entirely.
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Lovecraft's own work would probably elicit a similar response.
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Samovar posted:I wouldn't necessarily say it was terrible, but Lovecraft Country had a bit in it that made me think, 'was this written by a white guy?' then I looked it up and found out that it was, and that experience kinda turned me off the book entirely. Victor LaValle's Ballad of Black Tom is Lovecraftian horror written by a Black author and it's good.
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Yngwie Mangosteen posted:If you have a lot of trouble processing audio only stuff, and don't have a reason already, maybe get checked for ADHD, it was one of the things my shrink said to convince me to test.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Holy poo poo. Welcome, friend. Come join us in the thread!
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