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View Poll Results: Adams or Pratchett
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4 66.67%
Discworld 2 33.33%
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Old 01-29-2019, 03:53 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Man I don't even know. I've been rereading Hitchhiker's Guide recently but it's been like a decade since I read it and I never read much of Discworld.
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No poll?

I say Pratchet

The only Hitchhiker book worth a **** is the first one

Pratchet has all kinds of funny clever stuff
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Old 01-29-2019, 03:57 PM   #3 (permalink)
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There is in fact a poll. The thread goes up before the poll. I do not know why this happens but it does.
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Coincidentally, I’m reading Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett right now. I was underwhelmed by the first book I read by him (Mort) but he’s really growing on me. That said, I still think I prefer Adams at this point.
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I thought the thread was Patch Adams vs. Douglas Adams. Disappointed it's not.
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Oh I think I was pre-poll or something
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I prefer Adams but I haven't read too much of the Discworld series tbh.
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It's easy to like Adams more but come on, after the first couple Hitchhiker's books it starts to get depressing. I actually hated the last book cause it was so miserable.
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It's easy to like Adams more but come on, after the first couple Hitchhiker's books it starts to get depressing. I actually hated the last book cause it was so miserable.
It was crap writing

Compare their bibliographies
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The "last" Hitchhiker's book written by someone else actually got laughs from me and felt better even if it was clearly there to give a better-feeling ending to the series.

The last Adams book didn't even have ****ing Zaphod! How can you end the series wondering where the **** Zaphod is for several hundred pages?!
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