The original audio series was featured weekly on the local NPR radio station when I was in College (around the time of the dinosaurs). I never missed an episode. I have gone out of my way to avoid the movie knowing that, though Adams started it, a movie project could in no way do the stuff justice. You just can't do visuals for his stuff...... Julie Krueger nostalgiac now ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Date: 5/11/05 10:41:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time From: _eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: The audio version of the book, produced by BBC in the late 70s or early 80s, is hard to beat. The whale's soliloquy has a nice explosion at the end when it abruptly makes landfall. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html