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Last Chance to See

Posted by Mark | Filed under DVDs

I just fin­ished read­ing Dou­glas Adams and Mark Carwardine’s Last Chance to See. Wow. It was great! I’ve been a fan of Dou­glas Adams since I was knee-high to a grasshop­per (mostly for his Hitcher’s Guide to the Galaxy) but I’d never read any non-fiction by him before. It was won­der­ful to see his irrev­er­ent and humor­ous style remained unchanged. Unfor­tu­nately, the copy of the book I got from Fritz was in an elec­tronic for­mat and didn’t include the pho­tographs which I under­stand exist in the dead-tree ver­sion. Still, it was a delight­ful read and any Dou­glas Adams fan should enjoy it. Over­all, I give it 4.75 out of 5 points.

Next up, I’ll me read­ing through Dou­glas Adams’s Star­ship Titanic by Terry Jones. Mr. Jones appar­ently read Dou­glas Adams’s Hitcher’s Guide to the Galaxy series, saw the cou­ple of para­graphs that talk about the Star­ship Titanic and thought to him­self “That would make a fun book! I shall sit down and write it, right after I take off all my clothes!”

Oh and in case that wasn’t a suf­fi­cient hint for you; this is the same Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Keen! :)

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