Spin-Offs (back from Rickman)

[Goddlefrood]

> > Mike:
> > Back to the original premise of your thread:

> > HPfGU has me reading stuff I never would have picked up before, 
> > mostly out of ignorance. ...
> > I've read all of Doug Adams' Hitchhiker's series, thank you 
> > Frood Dude.

Goddlefrood:

I'm glad you liked it. I was in at the beginning with that series 
and even have a first edition of the first book. I wonder if it's 
worth anything, even though I'd never part with it (it's falling 
apart anyway).

I know you know this, but in general, Adams also wrote two 
Dirk Gently books. They are also worth looking into for 
anyone interested.

> Kemper now:
> Jumping in here to also thank the Frood of Fiji. I finished the 
> play, 'Look Back in Anger'. Quite an angry, harsh story. 

Goddlefrood:

Hence the tile :-). It was written in the mid 50s, around the time 
of the Suez crisis. Rationing and post-war hardship were coming to 
an end, as was the old regimen. I'd mentioned it as influential 
when we discussed this earlier; it was in the sense that much of 
what followed was in a similar vein for a time and the crusty old 
fuddy duddies who'd run England and much of the wider world were 
becoming extinct. It led on to inspire a lot of satire, with TW3 
(I'll let Geoff explain, before my time), Monty Python and many 
more seminal aspects of recent British culture flowing from it 
in the sense that the previous barriers to criticism of those 
on the grav.. er, in the corridors of power were now fair game.

> Kemper:

> I just started Great Apes

Goddlefrood:

It improves, at least I thought so. I liked the basic premise and 
it was also full of familiar places, myself having spent several 
years in and around north west London.

Oh, and I told you I knew where my towel was ;-)