Well, shit.
Couldn’t have put it better myself. I liked him even before I read his books when I saw the Doctor Who work by him. A twisted genius taken too soon. Rest in peace.
*"…only the good die young"–Billy Joel *
TANJ!
Another spot of light gone out
Hometownboy8
He’s not really dead. He just made a permanent reservation at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe and got a little too close to the Gnab Gib.
I weep for his loss. His books olny changed my life for the better(I met my best friend through them.), and made me the moderately stable intelectual I am today. I have nver cried so had at the death of someone I didn’t know. Truly, this is a blow for all mankind. And to think, I was listening to his technology show “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Future” on BBC 4('s Website) just last week.
/me curls up in a fetal position and dies inside.
This is truly sad. Funny enough, I was on the bus on the way home 30 minutes ago, trying to remember when I last read HHGTTG. Now, I come home to this piece of news.
Sigh.
I just heard it too. Bummer.
Hope everyone will be cosulting the HHG site to cheer themselves up.
Damn . . .
He was a man who always knew where his towel was . . .
Time to close down the outside of the sanitarium
The world has truly lost a unique soul.
— G. Raven
Hey, you sass that hoopy Douglas Adams? You’re right Badge; there was a frood who really knows where his towel was.
If you would like to be part of a lasting memorial to Adams’ genius take part in http://www.h2g2.com H2G2 is a website designed to act as The Hitchikers Guide to the Planet Earth with people from around the globe posting to create the largest index of usefull “realworld” knowledge available. If the teeming millions can’t get behind this I don’t know who can. Please sign up and add your information to this great storehouse of knowledge.
/me wanders off to cry some more.
Sadly not available in six-packs.
Heembo
That’s a shame. I really enjoyed his writings. I can remember where I was the first time I read any of his words - behind the bar at the Hotel Joseph in Tel Aviv, ca. 1982.
The first time I read Hitchhiker’s Guide was as I was riding a bus from Chicago to L.A. after having spent five weeks bumming around Europe. The book is funny on its own, but more-so after having been “living out of” Let’s Go: Europe for five weeks.
Gah!!! He’s not allowed to be dead! Really!
::hides face in towel::
This right up there in my top list of worst news ever.
My only consolation is that somewhere out there, God has taken Mr. Adams aside, put an arm around his shoulder, and said, “I apologize for the inconvenience.”
It’s a great man that can make that many people laugh so hard, so nicely. I’ll miss him.