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06-29-2004, 01:00 AM

Pat Logsdon

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Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins

I met Douglas Adams briefly at the Edinburgh book festival in the early 90's. He signed a towel I brought along for such an eventuality. :mrgreen:

I saw him speak about 10 years ago at a local college and got him to sign something for me, too. Very nice guy. He mentioned that he basically wrote the Infocom game Bureaucracy, which I have yet to play.

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Originally Posted by Jonathon Watkins

For all you HHGTTG fans out there - make sure you also read "Last Chance to See". It's an account of his travels in search of endangered animals. It's very good indeed.

Don't forget the Dirk Gently series and Don't Panic, a biography of Douglas Adams penned by none other than Neil Gaiman.

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07-01-2004, 07:22 AM

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07-01-2004, 10:46 AM

Jonathon Watkins

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Inspired by this thread, I picked up the HHGTTG eBook and hopefully will have a little time to read it during my vacation the next two weeks.

Nice. 8) Let us know what you think of it.

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07-01-2004, 04:56 PM

Janak Parekh

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Originally Posted by Pat Logsdon

He mentioned that he basically wrote the Infocom game Bureaucracy, which I have yet to play.

A friend of mine and I played it for about a half-hour. It is very hard -- one of the more difficult Infocom games. I still have quite a few that I want to get through...

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Don't forget the Dirk Gently series

You know, I need to reread these. Thanks for the reminder. 8)

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