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HitchHiker's Documentary Scheduled for May 11 Release
Trazk writes: "Taken from the DA News Website: One year to the date of his death, Douglas Adams, renowned author of the best-selling cult classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, will be remembered in an 80-minute documentary film entitled Life, The Universe, and Douglas Adams. The production, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, will be available May 11 on VHS.
The press release can be found at the Douglas Adams' Website"
Actually, he wrote the HHGTTG radio series (really, the first sci-fi/humour ever), upon which the first three books were based, then followed up with 2 (almost 3) more books, both of which are quite good. The series also inspired both the Starship Titanic book and game. There was a TV series based on the radio series. Adams also made the HHGTTG game, and made another text-based game, Bureaucracy. He also wrote two Dirk Gently novels, a couple of good short stories, and co-authored Last Chance to See, The Meaning of Liff, and its expansion, The Deeper Meaning of Liff. As mentioned, he wrote some Doctor Who episodes. He also helped start the beginning of a Guide, h2g2.
BTW, J.D. Salinger's only actual book so far, was The Catcher in the Rye; Harper Lee's, To Kill a Mockingbird, and I'd like to see you argue that Salinger or Lee was mediocre to an English teacher. And if we want to do as you did, we can say that all Tolkien did was write Middle-Earth books, that James Fenimore Cooper only wrote the Leatherstocking Tales, that Frank Herbert only wrote Dune and sequels to it, and that Orson Scott Card only wrote Ender's Game and sequels to it. Few people know of more than one work by Ken Kesey, William Golding, Herman Melville, or Miguel de Cervantes. On the other hand R.L. Stine wrote masses of Goosebumps books, and he is not a great author. It is best to write masses of great/good books, but it is better to write one great or a few good books than it is to write masses of mediocre books.