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Salmon of Doubt

 
 
Burning Man
20:11 / 07.05.02
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400045088/qid=1020805366/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_67_1/002-3267724-3176046
I just saw it at the bookstore today. I rushed to reserve my copy at the library. I wonder if I could have impressed the hot (yes there are such women) librarian with my "laughing planet" tattoo.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
17:35 / 08.05.02
Isn't it only about 50 pages of notes or something? I remember reading the novel that Asimov managed to squeeze out before he died, that was turgid crap and, like everything he'd written in the last decade involved an unconvention scientist getting lots of sex from beautiful women. I suspected he died just to avoid being told by his editor to rewrite it.

So, what else is there in 'SoD'?
 
 
Burning Man
23:27 / 08.05.02
Haven't read it yet, but this from Amazon:

Included are a letter to the editor of a U.K. boy's magazine (written in 1965, when Adams was 12); a reminiscence about his lifelong love for the Beatles, written when he was in his 40s; a 1991 piece from Esquire entitled "My Nose"; and an undated article for the Independent espousing his preference for whiskey. Also on hand are a q&a in which he identifies the most interesting natural structure as being a "2,000-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly World News"; a spiritual encounter with a giant manta ray while testing a mechanical diving device at Australia's Great Barrier Reef; an affecting introduction to P.G. Wodehouse's unfinished novel, Sunset at Blandings; an account of a Save the Rhino pilgrimage across Africa; ruminations on computerization; and a philosophical address about the authorship of the universe entitled "Is There an Artificial God?" Two sketches "The Private Life of Genghis Khan" and "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" from the Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, 1986, are also here, as are 10 chapters from various versions of the title novel-in-progress."

A Dirk Gently novel put together, with notes about how it finishes. It's all questionable to me which is why I'm going to check it out from the library as opposed to springing 24.00 for the book. Plus it has a great epilogue by Richard Dawkins that I did read, and thought was great. I'll let you know when I finally read it.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
16:58 / 09.05.02
Yeah BM, I think this definitely something it's better to get out from the library rather than waste money on buying. I always liked DNA for his ideas, the last three of the Hitch-hikers books and the second Dirk Gently had good ideas but were a bit on the crap side, especially the obvious crowbaring of Stavromuller Beta into 'Mostly Harmless'.
 
  
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