Recently Douglas Adams has become one of my
favorite authors, because of his amazing series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,
but mostly his writing style. In the book I have begun to read Life, The
Universe, and Everything Douglas Adams writes in the first few stages about
a man stranded in a desert in Africa in the 1950’s who has not spoken to anyone
and has not been spoken too in over 5 years. But more importantly, he has not been insulted. Except once. Two years into his strandidness an alien space craft landed from the sky and a man popped out of it and asked, "Are you Arthur Dent?" Arthur then responded with yes, and the man said, "Your an A**hole Mr. Dent." And he left.
This is merely on of the completely random things that Douglas Adams includes in his work. Randomness is good a little at a time. He does it perfectly, and he ties all his seemingly random things back into a form. This is what I personally look for in a good teacher and writer.
I can' twait to finish this book and head on to the last two books in this series. If you love Science Fiction I suggest you give it a try!
I have friends who have read the above mentioned books and they agree (to a degree) with your statements on his writing style. I wonder however, do you ever find his style confusing, or is it the "perfect" amount of randomness?
ReplyDeleteThat's really interesting I have never seen someone write like that with randomness in different spurts. Does the randomness make the book better of does it not affect the book at all? Overall your post makes me think I might want to read it at some point.
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