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Douglas Adams


Born
in Cambridge, England, The United Kingdom
March 11, 1952

Died
May 11, 2001

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Genre
Science Fiction, Mystery, Humor

Influences
Monty Python, Kurt Vonnegut, P. G. Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, Jane Au ...more


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The D ...more

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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
tags: life, navigation
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
tags: humor, scifi
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December Revisit the Shelf

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, 1848, 542 pages, Group read: 2013, 2015
 
  79 votes, 25.8%

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, 1979, 216 pages, Group read: 2014, 2016
 
  78 votes, 25.5%

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 1952, 132 pages, Group read: 2017
 
  63 votes, 20.6%

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 1814, 560 pages, Group read: 2012
 
  62 votes, 20.3%

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 1951, 560 pages, Group read: 2012
 
  24 votes, 7.8%

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