The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
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Este es un libro de mi COLECCIÓN PERMANENTE. ¡¡NO LIBERAR!!
Un poco SPOILER, dice Wikipedia:
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet-building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway. Through archival recordings, he relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a computer named Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed to be 42, Deep Thought had predicted that another computer, more powerful than itself would be made and designed by it to calculate the question for the answer. (Later on, referencing this, Adams would create the 42 Puzzle, a puzzle which could be approached in multiple ways, all yielding the answer 42.)
The computer, often mistaken for a planet (because of its size and use of biological components), was the Earth, and was destroyed by Vogons to make way for a hyperspatial express route, five minutes before the conclusion of its 10-million-year program. Two of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who commissioned the Earth in the first place, disguise themselves as Trillian's mice, and want to dissect Arthur's brain to help reconstruct the question, since he was part of the Earth's matrix moments before it was destroyed, and so he is likely to have part of the question buried in his brain. Trillian is also human but had left Earth six months previously with Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Galaxy. The protagonists escape, setting course for "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". The mice, in Arthur's absence, create a phony question since it is too troublesome for them to wait 10 million years again just to cash in on a lucrative deal. Their new question was "How many roads must a man walk down?"
The book was adapted from the first four radio episodes. It was first published in 1979, initially in paperback, by Pan Books, after BBC Publishing had turned down the offer of publishing a novelisation, an action they would later regret. The book reached number one on the book charts in only its second week, and sold over 250,000 copies within three months of its release. A hardback edition was published by Harmony Books, a division of Random House in the United States in October 1980, and the 1981 US paperback edition was promoted by the give-away of 3,000 free copies in the magazine Rolling Stone to build word of mouth. In 2005, Del Rey Books rereleased the Hitchhiker series with new covers for the release of the 2005 movie. To date, it has sold over 14 million copies.
Released 14 yrs ago (1/27/2010 UTC) at Nuñez, Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Capital Federal) Argentina
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Este es un libro-anillo. NO LIBERAR!!
Nuevo Orden de lecturas:
-Ecomarcus/Marcelo (arranca él. se lo llevó de Bom fin en febrero.)
-Jonathan/elproyectista [está acá]
-Amelia/Aeslen
-Anna-O/ Ferfer
-Elidanora
-Coyote espacial/ Juan Manuel
-Miralejos/ Florencia
-Little Miss Sunshine/ Sol
-Sundal/Alejandro
-Lamaga79/ Vero
-Ecomarcus/Marcelo (pasa al fondo)
Mas que libro-anillo, es lo que mi amiga becera Iluza llamaría un "libro-ladrillo". Sus poco más de 800 páginas asustan un poco, pero la fama que lo acompaña y las 10 estrellitas otorgadas por su feliz poseedora animan a aceptar el desafío.
Visiten www.douglasadams.com y www.towelday.org (o Wiki) y encontrarán la magnitud del fenómeno: el 25 de mayo (fecha patria para algunos) es el Día de la Toalla y los fans salen a la calle usándolas en recordatorio de la temprana muerte del autor.
El libro lo conocí a través de mi hermano mayor, prácticamente un no-lector, techie dedicado al IT. Él estaba trabajando en un proyecto de programación y se encontró con el 42 como medida de algo y no entendía el porqué. Le preguntó al programador que lo había hecho y le contestaron: "42 es la respuesta a la Vida, el Universo y Todo lo Demás, claro". El resto es historia...
Released 13 yrs ago (8/21/2010 UTC) at Confiteria La Opera, Callao y Corrientes, Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Capital Federal) Argentina
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Me quedé con las ganas de leerlo, así que, espero, cuando pegue la vuelta a la galaxia, llegue nuevamente a mis manos para poder hacerlo.
Released 13 yrs ago (8/21/2010 UTC) at Confiteria La Opera, Callao y Corrientes, Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Capital Federal) Argentina
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Me quedé con las ganas de leerlo, así que, espero, cuando pegue la vuelta a la galaxia, llegue nuevamente a mis manos para poder hacerlo.
Released 12 yrs ago (8/20/2011 UTC) at Coffee Store de Av. Corrientes y Discépolo in Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Capital Federal) Argentina
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Lo llevo a la reunion mensual de agosto 2011 para darselo a la siguiente en el anillo que es Aeslen.
Agrego un dvd con la miniserie completa (1981, 6 episodios, subs en ingles) y la pelicula (2005, subs en castellano).
So long and thanks for all the fish!
El único problema es que ahora necesito comprarlo.
¡Muchas gracias por compartirlo AngeMalaussene!
Pasará a manos del siguente lector en breve.
Released 12 yrs ago (2/15/2012 UTC) at Bar La Opera in Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Capital Federal) Argentina
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
-Jonathan/elproyectista
-Amelia/Aeslen
-Anna-O/ Ferfer [***]
-Elidanora
-Coyote espacial/ Juan Manuel
-Miralejos/ Florencia
-Little Miss Sunshine/ Sol
-Sundal/Alejandro
-Lamaga79/ Vero
-Ecomarcus/Marcelo (pasó al fondo)