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Hitchhiker's Guide, Salmon of Doubt

Posted by michael on from the thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.

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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  1. Re:Douglas Adams by david.given · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

  2. Mmm by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    RIP Doug

  3. Adams' readers also liked... by 4thAce · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

    --
    Inventor of the LOLbalrog meme.
  4. Re:Salmon of Doubt by alangmead · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.