Works of Douglas Book Club 2021
Are you ready to curl up in your cave and read?
Your flying saucer, Wibrowserfi, has landed on the Works of Douglas Book Club page.
Book club meets every month, on the last Sunday of each month, via Zoom…a celebration of having survived the month. Here’s the recurring meeting information:
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84595586681?pwd=STVZSEpaS0ZTZWdvZEVvWUN0S3FWQT09
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We’ll talk about life, the universe, and everything Douglas wrote, and since his works are limited, reading things written about him.
Club participation is voluntary.
Lurkers are welcome.
You’ll get the most out of your wheat germ jar if you join the meetings, share trivia, stories, and your opinion on the best and even better bits of Douglas’s books.
When you came on board Flight 121, you received an invitation to our private Facebook page: The Outside of the Asylum. Participation via Facebook is also completely optional, but each month questions will be posted there about the book up for discussion.
Still have questions? Ask Wonko.
Slouch: Friday, January 29th
“It’s all devastatingly true — except the bits that are lies”
— Douglas Adams
Don’t Panic quickly established itself as the definitive companion to Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This edition comes up to date. Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman celebrates the life and work of Douglas Adams.
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Slouch: Friday, February 26th
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
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Slouch: Friday, March 26th
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.
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Slouch: Sunday, April 25th
The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.
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Slouch: Friday, May 30th
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.
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Slouch: Sunday, June 27th
It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose.
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Slouch: Sunday, July 25th
There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently’s bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE
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Slouch: Friday, August 27th
When a check-in desk at London’s Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the event is said to be an act of God. But which god? wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently. And how is this connected to Dirk’s battle with his cleaning lady over his filthy refrigerator…or to the murder of his latest client? Or are these events just another stretch of coincidences in the life of the world’s most off-kilter private investigator?
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Slouch: Friday, September 24th
Culled posthumously from Adams’s fleet of beloved Macintosh computers, this selection of essays, articles, anecdotes, and stories offers a fascinating and intimate portrait of the multifaceted artist and absurdist wordsmith.
Join Adams on an excursion to climb Kilimanjaro . . . dressed in a rhino costume; peek into the private life of Genghis Khan—warrior and world-class neurotic; root for the harried author’s efforts to get a Hitchhiker movie off the ground in Hollywood; thrill to the further exploits of private eye Dirk Gently and two-headed alien Zaphod Beeblebrox. Though Douglas Adams is gone, he’s left us something very special to remember him by.
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Slouch: Sunday, November 28th
In this thoroughly satisfying and completely disorienting novel based on a story line by Douglas Adams (author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Terry Jones recounts an unforgettable tale of intergalactic travel and mishap. The saga of “the ship that cannot possibly go wrong” sparkles with wit, danger, and confusion that will keep readers guessing which reality they are in and how, on earth, to find their way out again.
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Slouch: Sunday, November 28th
And Another Thing … will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, the author’s widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval for the project to be continued by the international number one bestselling children’s writer, Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Douglas Adams himself once said, ‘I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book. Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number.’ Belson said of Eoin Colfer, ‘I love his books and could not think of a better person to transport Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new.’ Colfer, a fan of Hitchhiker since his schooldays, said, ‘Being given the chance to write this book is like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice. For years I have been finishing this incredible story in my head and now I have the opportunity to do it in the real world.’ Prepare to be amazed…