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What's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 105 points 4 months ago (25 children)

The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

All of Discworld.

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    All of Discworld.

    That'd be a pretty big book...

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I'm working on that currently. I think I'm on book 6, so only about 40 more to go lol

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I don't know exactly how much of my warped view on reality is directly attributable to reading the Guide at a young age. I hope most of it.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Likewise. I think it made us better people

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    After reading it in my early teens, I didn't know anyone who might enjoy it. So I took the book and wrote a note that said "This book is not just a book you find, it also finds you." and I put it in someones mailbox. I sometimes wonder if that person whoever it was liked it or even read it.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

    I’ve read the series (well only the Douglas authored books). I have a copy of The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which I have not read. Does it make a difference?

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    Much like the TV minseries, book, movie, radio play and audiobooks - all incarnations of The Guide are accurate and complete, especially the parts that contradict.. It just depends on which multiverse you have existen been fromme. (Universal relativism weirds language.)

    At least that’s what I believe.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The Guide from Mostly Harmless agrees with you.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    See? Its even more internally consistent than the Bible.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I only wish we had gotten The Salmon of Doubt.

    While the Guide is important, I actually think Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and Long Dark Teatime of the Soul might both be more important. I'm actually often saddened they didn't get as much love as Hitchhiker's Guide.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The Douglas-authored books would be...all of the Hitchhikers' Guide books. Which is what the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide is.

    I think it may not make a difference, no.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    I was trying to narrow it down to 1 discworld book. Ive got it down to Small Gods, Jingo or Thud!.

    I also got confused whether a full stop goes after the ! Or not.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Small gods is for sure one of my favorites!

    If there's an exclamation mark (!) there's generally no period (.).

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Even in this case, where the ! is part of the title?

    It was 50/50 and looks like i picked unwisely

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    The exclamation mark is part of the title. I would say the hard stop goes at the end of the sentence otherwise the exclamation mark could be construed as part of the sentence and not part of the title.

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