"La scienza ha perso un amico, la letteratura ha perso grande autore, i gorilla di montagna e i rinoceronti neri hanno perso un coraggioso difensore, Apple ha perso il suo più eloquente apologeta. E io ho perso un insostituibile compagno intellettuale e un degli uomini più buoni e spiritosi che abbia conosciuto in vita mia." Richard Dawkins
D.N.A manchi e mancherai sempre ❤️❤️

I didn’t want to rush reading this selection of Douglas Adams’s writings, but my library loan ran out, so I had to finish faster than I would’ve liked.

The people who edited this selection together, did a very good job organizing these pieces into a logical order. And while some might be more interesting than others, there are a few I could easily read over and over - especially those that go into his views on atheism. And having access to the last, unfinished Dirk Gently novel is a joy, even if it makes me sad to know that I’ll never get another Douglas Adams book. Salmon had wonderful promise.

Just reread this and wanted to register my reaction. Douglas Adams was very funny in a way that was intelligent and insightful. I'm so sorry he's gone. This book is sort of a tribute to him, and is fitting, as such, but the part of a novel that is contained therein is about as disappointing as you'd expect from an unfinished draft version. His books are really all about the wonderful hilarious ideas he has, I think. The plot, characters, pacing, and settings, if any, are quite haphazard and scattered all over the place. He has a delightful sort of philosophy of life that comes through it all, and I think that's what it is I love about him. He brings the wonder of everything back, the bizarreness, and the beauty.

We live, he says, at the bottom of a gravity well on a gas-covered planet orbiting a nuclear explosion 93 million miles away, and the fact that we think this is normal shows how skewed our perspective really is.

I think I'll try reading P. G. Wodehouse because of one essay in here in which DNA lauds him in a way that makes him sound really good. I might try Ruth Rendell, as well, on his recommendation, though I really don't enjoy mystery books very much as a rule. It sounds like she's one of those excellent writers for whom the mystery is a pretext to tell us all the other cool stuff she thinks about, and her perceptions of the world.

I think the deadlines whooshing by were mentioned 5 times at least, in different introductions, forewords, essays, etc. and I thought it needed a rest. The computer and gaming things were quite out of date now, a decade after DNA's death, but still were interesting just to see the sort of vision he had. All in all this book is recommended for DNA fans but not for those who aren't already. Try H2G2 or Dirk Gently instead, if you're new to him.

I would recommend this book to people who are really into the work of Douglas Adams. In this book you will find letters, interviews, mails, random thoughts, and of course The Salmon of Doubt, which has the same style as his other books, but is not as innovative or surprising as the more famous ones. There was one section I really enjoyed in which he speaks his mind about the idea of God, and talks about the circularity of the definition. The tautological concept of the creator. I wish he had written more about it and in more detail.

Posthumously written book on Douglas Adams, excerpts from his interviews/speeches including his incomplete last book before his untimely death. Douglas Adams I thank you for Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy and miss you for the Dirk Gently series.

I stopped reading this book. I enjoyed the first part, but I think this book is really for people who know and love Douglas Adams and want a little bonus of reading all his book introductions and opinion pieces in one place. I might come back to it after I've read some of his other work.

Ve işte böylece bitti.

An enjoyable but utterly pointless book.

I'm a huge Douglas Adams fan but sadly this book doesn't deserve his name. It's not that it's filth, or worthless. In fact this is has some lovely moments in the book and that's what gets it 2 stars from me.

But the issue is it's a book that shouldn't exist. This should be free on the internet, or some other format. You get a large amount of articles, a few random chapters from a book, a book that no one even knows what series it belongs to exactly, and that's about it.

The only author I felt worse about passing was Micheal Crichton, and his posthumous book was an almost finished manuscript, this unfortunately is just the building blocks.

The worst book in the world would be one you talk about with the author, read all the chapters out of order, and piecemeal, read a rough draft, read an almost final version, and read the final copy.

This is just the second step by itself, and because we all know there won't be a final book, it feels like a hollow last hurrah in my mind. I'll always miss Douglas Adams, but I'll honor him with his classics. Not what probably should have remained unpublished and unnecessary tidbits of his life.

This makes a good case for NOT publishing everything found around the house after an otherwise-brilliant author kicks the bucket.

When i first heard about this book, I went very quickly from exitement, through confusion and ended up in serious doubt. I was exited at the prospect of a book by my favorite author that I had not yet read, confused as to how that had happened, and finally in serious doubt if I should when i learned what it was about. This is an unfinished Dirk Gently #3, and mabye some other stuff(Or so I thought, it turns out that the DG#3 is only about 80 pages out of 280). I was scared that it would be really obviously unfinished, that it would be nothing like the other books I love so deerly, and that reading the start of it would make me horribly sad and depressed about never being able to read the whole thing. I was right about the last one, it is a bittersweet read. It startes of with all the wonderful Douglassy Adamsness that i wanted from it, but then it just ends, leaving me exactly where I feared it would when I happened upon it in the library and thought something along the lines of "fuck it, its Douglas Adams, I can't not read it".

However. That is only true for the Dirk Gently part of the book. The other parts are thoughtprovoking, easy to read, fun brilliance. Some of it will be familliar to those who has already read Last Chance to See, or watched his talk at University of California just before his death.

Even though I am now quite sad I don't regret reading it, and I'd recommend it to any and all fans of Douglas Adams.

This collection of essays and interviews is just a genuine pleasure. Funny, interesting, and enjoyable.

A wonderful insight into Douglas Adams' brilliant mind. The tragedy of his untimely death looms over the entire book--when you read his excitement over new Macintosh computers, oh my god how excited and/or hilariously horrified would he be to see where technology is today? I long for more of his words and I am so disraught that every word he will ever write has been written. Life is cruel and unfair, but at least we can access this well-crafted collection of the last bits and bobs and know many Douglas Adams' fans grieve with us.