[ SECRET POST #3987 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3987 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Yuri on Ice]


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[Book Series: The Temeraire Novels by Naomi Novik]


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[Orphan Black]


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[South Park]


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[Stranger Things]


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[Smallville]


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[Iron Fist, Joy/Danny]














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Comments

Re: Book club - November discussion: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[(Anonymous)]

Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is really weird. I totally get why it's a classic, I absolutely loved it when I was a kid and first read it, and I still like a lot of things about it. A lot of the ideas in it are genuinely off-the-wall and cool - the scale and the scope of things like the Earth being a supercomputer, and the Infinite Impossibility Drive, and the idea of Magrathea being a place that can build planets, and having this impossibly old history of Earth and humanity - that's all genuinely really cool stuff. And the oddball humor that suffuses the whole thing is funny and charming, even if I don't find it as funny as I maybe used to.

At the same time, though, as a novel, it's entirely unsatisfactory. The characters are mostly pretty unlikable and uninteresting - Ford is OK, and Arthur and Marvin are mildly funny even though they also kind of suck; everyone else sucks and is also not very funny. And the plot is just totally unsatisfying. Obviously, in this book, it just sort of limply trails off. It doesn't satisfactorily fit any of the big cool ideas or emotional storylines into a meaningful whole or a satisfying conclusion. And from what I can remember from the rest of the series, there isn't actually any point at which it does do so. It just sort of... goes on and on. So that's just sort of frustrating. I mean, just, why even bother to gesture at these big conspiracy theories and ideas? If all you want to do is have wry jokes, you can do that much more satisfactorily without that stuff.

Either way, it's obviously a classic, Douglas Adams is a legend, etc. But as an actual narrative story, there are a lot of things that I dislike about it.

Re: Book club - November discussion: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[ketita]

I think you just articulated really well why I never got into it either. Like you said, I recognize that it's a classic and why, but I just didn't love it, particularly

Re: Book club - November discussion: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[diet_poison]

I pretty much agree with this comment. This is a good comment and a good assessment.

Except I liked Marvin a little more than Arthur, I guess. Even though he was obnoxious.

I did like the bit with the mice. That was pretty funny.

Re: Book club - November discussion: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[(Anonymous)]

Also, mice are very cute, so that helps a lot there.