Hitchhiker's Guide, Salmon of Doubt

ReadParse writes "There was a previous story about "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" being released on DVD in January. This turned out to be a Region 2 DVD, but the Region 1 DVD was released on or about April 30th. There are two discs, the first of which is the BBC Miniseries, which was adapted from the BBC radio play. It suddenly occurs to me to submit this story, because mine was just delivered within the past hour. Right now it's the 12th most popular DVD on Amazon." Several people also noted that Adams' final (I guess) book, The Salmon of Doubt, is now hitting the shelves.

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for once on /.

[lfourrier]

We have a link toward a book without referer encoded in the url.

Re:Douglas Adams

[david.given]

Author of my favourite joke of all time...

Arthur: You know, it's at times like this that I really wish I had listened to what my mother had told me when I was young.

Ford: Why, what did she say?

Arthur: (crossly) I don't know, I didn't listen.

Mmm

[dreamchaser]

I'm going to order 42 copies. I can carry them around in my towel.

RIP Doug

Next book?

[Arsewiper]

This guy just gets lazier and lazier. Don't RIP Douglas, get up and possess a few people, give the channelers something worth writing. Just try and pick someone without writers block.

Funny :)

[phunhippy]

strangely its now ranked: Amazon.com Sales Rank: 13 instead of 12 as posted!

I think this is the first time some kind of stat has gone down! instead of up when posted on slashdot.. granted its still early.. but still funny :)

DVD *and* Amazon in the same post :)

[ishark]

Ok, I guess that today it's a most accidental superposition of the "MPAA is our friend" day and the "1-click buying Amazon patent" day.

Let me guess, we should all buy the DVD and then burn it publically as a sign of protest? :)

Adams' readers also liked...

[4thAce]

I followed one of the links off the isbn.nu page and discovered that according to this link, people who bought "The Salmon of Doubt" also bought:

Poisonwood Bible Hardcover, 1997
Barbara Kingsolver

The Catcher in the Rye Paperback, Reprint, 1991
J. D. Salinger

The Girls' Guide to Hunting & Fishing Hardcover Textbook, 1999
Melissa Bank, Melissa Banks

Would you believe it?

I just like the sheer quantity of misconceptions in that list item listing. Caveat Lector

Re:Salmon of Doubt

[alangmead]

Usually, when people take writers unfinished work after their passing, you can tell because it feels very disjointed and seems to have parts of the plot that are just left unexplained and make no sense.

I can't figure out how this would be different than any other Douglas Adams novel.

Re:Douglas Adams

[ackthpt]

I think you can count on various republishings and repackagings of things for years to come. Digging the works off a dead authors computer IMHO would indicate they'll stop at little to find something to sell.

I rather expected Douglas Adams last writings was a non-issue on Slashdot, because I wrote up nice posts with links and everything and they kept getting send to file 86. From the rather lukewarm addition by Michael, I'd assume it's so. Too bad he didn't have an Anime version, but maybe there's hope.

"What??"

"Big yellow ship hang over MegaTokyo in exactly way that brick do not!!"

"What say!!"

"Arthur Dent, where my satchel!?! We go on Vogon ship, listen to Poetry!!"

"What??"

There's to be a VHS tape documentary, too, this from DNA's site, one year to the date after his death.

DVD as "good" as the VHS?

[edstromp]

I am in the middle of listening through the radio series with my wife (she had never heard it prior).

The books are good. I love the radio series. But I watched the video, and can not stand it. I owned it for 3 years. Watched it once. Never wanted to see it again.

I won't go so far as to say the video hurt the series, but I wouldn't recomend anyone watching it unless they get a 1/2 dozen beers in them first.

Re:huh?

[danro]

Yes...
...unless he plans to give the world "ghostwriter" a whole new meaning.