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- From: martin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Martin Dougiamas)
- Subject: Re: A changing DNA (was Re: Mostly Harmful)
- Message-ID: <martin.728027377@marsh>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:49:37 GMT
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- ginsu@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wes Simonds) writes:
- >I never said I didn't like _Fish_!
-
- Ah, when you said his last two books, I assumed you meant HHGTTG books.
- My apologies. I consider the Dirk books as a separate series.
-
- >My favorite Adams sequences:
- [...]
- >7. Nothing in MH.
-
- Not even the "Disgusting Old Lady" scene? Not even the Ford/Arthur
- reunion scene? If you didn't like these then all I can say is comedy
- means different things to us. What about Ford plummeting to a certain
- death past all those floors in the HH building and flicking V signs
- to them all as he passes?
-
- >Here is a line from _Fish_:
- >"Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated
- >evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this."
-
- And a great line it is. But not that brain-swivellingly better than
- most of his writing, in all his books.
-
- >It is, in my opinion anyway, rough going looking for lines of this quality
- >in _MH_.
-
- Perhaps, but the quality of MH is not *that* far behind. You seem to be
- saying that just because MH has no lines in it that are as good as one of
- the best lines in a previous book (IYO) that it is a pile of worthless crap.
-
- >And as for scenes to match the Hyde Park scene in the same book, you
- >can forget it. They aren't there.
-
- Oh, I agree. But this does not mean the book is entirely worthless as
- you suggest, or bad enough to make sure you wouldn't buy a sequel, as
- you said. It's a different kind of book. That's why he got rid of
- Fenchurch. I'd like to see you write a better book that Mostly Harmless.
-
- Martin
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