![]() ![]() Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Zaphod Beeblebrox and of course Marvin were my companions and watch-overers during my transition to secondary school and I am intimately familiar with them.Īlso, Douglas Adams goes to extreme lengths to describe how the technology of his world works – such as the telepathic Babel Fish which can translate all known languages, and the Infinite Improbability Drive which powers the spaceship Heart of Gold. This is because, in all its incarnations – radio series 2005 film with Martin Freeman live play with the original radio cast at the Anvil Theatre, in Basingstoke, near a roundabout, on a Thursday (you had to be there) and TV series – I have always been willing to suspend my disbelief and immerse myself in the experience as if for the first time. It is sometimes hard to remember that my first encounter with Douglas Adams’s surreal, whimsical universe came in the form of the creased and battered, slim paperback – part of a box-set delivered one Christmas, courtesy of the Book People – which even now I have cradled on my lap. Instead, I asked myself, if a Vogon Constructor Fleet *spoiler alert!* were about to demolish the Earth, and if I had time to grab a handful of books and hurl them into my rucksack before thumbing a lift off the planet, which would I choose? This instantly made me realise which book I had to review. Unfortunately, I quickly realised that it was going to be impossible to sift through the hundreds of digested books swimming around in my subconscious and miraculously fish out that precious gem – my f avourite Book of All Time. ![]()
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