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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 09:16 PM
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Question for Fans of Hitchhiker's Guide
Do you actually like any of the main characters, to the extent that you'd like to know any of them personally?

Having just refinished the five-book-trilogy, I can say without disclaimer that I really dislike all of them, with the possible exception of Trillian. Each of them displays an array of traits that, in a real person, would cause me to shun that person as much as possible.


But darn it if the books aren't still fun to read.
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 09:24 PM
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1. I always thought Ford would be fun to have as a friend.. but yeah, a little annoying
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 09:51 PM
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4. How many friends have you had that aren't a little annoying?
:evilgrin:
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:24 PM
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12. Heh.. good point!
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 09:27 PM
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2. I like them all more than Ignatius in A Confederacy of Dunces. -n/t
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:08 PM
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7.  he got on my nerves, too
are they making a movie of that book? I thought I had read somewhere that Drew Barrymore had bought the rights to that book...
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:14 PM
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10. I think it's one of those cursed projects that's been planned for years but never happens.
And, lo, Google bringeth forth the answer:
http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/hollywood/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000865382
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:25 PM
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13. indefinite hold --
the nether world
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-24-07 12:03 AM
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19. Confederacy of Dunces is the kind of book that could only be done justice through Claymation
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-24-07 12:24 AM
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21. Ooo, I hadn't thought of that.
Don't tell the guy with the rights to it, or we'll be waiting another fifty years.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 09:50 PM
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3. Yes. I like all of them. I like all of them 100% more than any
of the characters on Seinfeld!

lol
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:01 PM
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5. That's not setting the bar too high, now is it?
If there were ever a more disaffected, self-absorbed crop of characters on tv, I'd like to know who they are.

But what a fine show, at that!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:08 PM
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8. Since I seemed to be the only person on the planet that couldn't walch that show
Edited on Fri Nov-23-07 10:11 PM by sfexpat2000
I was just trying to be careful. :)

/oops
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:12 PM
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9. Then those other people are fools, every last one of them!
All of my friends and coworkers love the show, even 9+ years hence.

Well, except for one friend, but we got rid of him via extreme rendition, so it's no longer an issue.
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RedCappedBandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:03 PM
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6. I love those books..
I love Ford! Arthur seems rather average..
I like Trillian too.

I don't know about Zaphod, though.

Marvin is my favorite robot ever!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:24 PM
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11. Trillian
that's about it

Marvin was amusing, but I'd end up killing it
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:31 PM
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14. I could never harm Marvin. It would like killing kin.
:rofl:
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 10:48 PM
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15. What, you find Eddie the shipboard computer annoying?
"Hi guys! Wanna have a conversation?!"

Sounds like too many former coworkers... :eyes:

I've known plenty of Arthurs; I could deal with him in small doses, I suppose (mainly down the pub after some beers).
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 11:50 PM
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16. Slartibartfast. I love him. My kind of guy.
"I put lovely fjords in Norway; lovely crinkly edges, you know. And I wanted to put them in the new Africa, and they refused to let me; said they weren't equatorial enough. But I'm going to anyway, because I like them..."

I totally identify with Slartibartfast. B-)
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-23-07 11:51 PM
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17. five-book-trilogy
Whaaa?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-24-07 12:02 AM
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18. How can you not like Ford and Arthur. Never cared much for Trillian
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-24-07 12:09 AM
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20. Ford and Arthur I like well enough. Zaphod was too smug for me.
I might like Marvin, though being his friend would be a bit soul-draining.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-24-07 08:15 AM
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22. Arthur.
He's a punching bag for a universe of urgent trifles, but bears no ill will. He's a nebbish, but a good-hearted one.

I just reread those books a couple of weeks ago.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-24-07 09:38 AM
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23. Arthur, of course
He just wants a quiet life, a cup of tea, and to make sandwiches for people. And yes, Trillian is brave, caring etc., so I can't see why she's just a 'possible exception'. She did save the universe, let's remember. And Slartibartfast is OK, once he stops working for Magarathea.

It's true that no-one's particularly great in the final book - apparently Adams was going through a bad patch in his personal life then, and was feeling pretty misanthropic. He later said he wished he'd written it a lot differently.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-24-07 09:39 AM
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24. Slartibartfast and Ford.
Arthur was too much of a whiner/loser. Zaphod could be fun, but I'm too introverted to handle him for long. But he'd be a blast! Trillian had a good mind and a good personality - I'd hit it! And Ford was just plain unflappable, and that's the kind of person I prefer to be with.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-24-07 09:40 AM
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25. Definitely Ford Prefect
He seems well-meaning enough.
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:03 PM
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26. i liked them all well enough
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 10:04 PM
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27. I've known people like Zaphod...
Not close friends, but likable nonetheless.
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