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(...) Yes there are some including me...:-) Selçuk (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, hi there! ;-) I really should get those books while I'm on vacation... but I doubt I'll have much time for reading (even REreading...). Oh well ;-) -Shiri -- I'll be on vacation between July 15th and the end of August... please forgive (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) it's just you. :) just kidding, the idea of going on vacation with my parents when was very unpleasant (assuming thats what you're doing), but i never actually got a chance to go on one. now that i'm working, though, i'd give anything for a (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thought so. :-) (...) Well, it's not, actually. My parents will be in the same country, but otherwise we won't be seeing much of e/o. (...) Heh. I've been waiting all year for this vacation and now that it's here I'm barely excited anymore. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Remember to read all 6 books in the trilogy :P --Bram (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) have (...) Oh, *right*... so I still have two more books to go. Dang! But... yay! ;-) -Shiri -- I'll be on vacation between July 15th and the end of August... please forgive slow replies to emails/posts. (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) have (...) It's more like 5 1/2. Young Zaphod Plays It Safe wasn't really long enough to be a book, IMO. ~Mark (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) True. It's just funny seeing all the different length "complete" Hitchhiker's Guides. --Bram (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If you like his work, I also suggest some books from Stanislaw Lem. He has some serious SF novels(0) mostly, but two from him, "Futurology(?) Congress" and "Diary Found in The Bath Tub"(1) are close relatives(2) to HHGtTG series, considering (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) The Futurological Congress and Memoirs Found in a Bathtub. I haven't read either of those, but I really enjoyed the Cyberiad. (...) Is Solaris the basis for the russian movie of the same name? (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ... Selçuk recommended Stanislaw Lem I read "Bathtub" last year. I think you have to be an adult to stay awake through that, and even then nothing makes sense on the first read! It's one of Lem's puzzles of paranoid societies with no obvious (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I don't think the TV adaptation of HGTG is un-funny! If anything, it whets your appetite for the books! There is actually something deadly serious underlying these books. (24 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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