Works of Douglas Adams Book Club 2024
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/84469249366?pwd=TGZUMkJSbFl3c2VjRkFoOFNmNk1OQT09
Meeting ID: 844 6924 9366
Passcode: ZZ9PZA
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.
Curious what we’ve already read? Check out the lists for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
Still have questions? Ask Wonko.
Slouch: Sunday, January 21st
Dirk Gently Comics: The Interconnectedness of All Kings
After writing all the many and conflicting versions of the legendary Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, beloved author Douglas Adams created Dirk Gently: a detective with a belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, a unique relationship with the laws of probability and physics, and a love of cats and pizza.
In his first-ever comic series, Dirk has been forced to leave his beloved England behind, coming to the too-sunny, too-cheery, and altogether too-bizarre-even-for-Dirk city of San Diego, California, where he gets embroiled in three separate (or are they?) cases involving reincarnated Egyptians, golden cell phones, and copycat killers. All this in a new town seemingly incapable of making even a single proper cup of tea.
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Slouch: Sunday, February 25th* April 28th*
Dirk Gently Comics: A Spoon Too Short
After the many and conflicting versions of the legendary Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams created Dirk Gently: a detective with a belief in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, a troubled relationship with the laws of probability and quantum physics, and a love of cats and pizza.
After the events of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea Time, but prior to the detective’s relocation to California in The Interconnectedness of All Kings, Dirk finds himself investigating a bizarre case of poaching, dumbstruck tourists, and the inner membranes of a rhinoceros’ nose.
*TIME is 7 AM Pacific to allow our southern hemisphere friends join the fun!
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Slouch: Sunday, June 2
Dirk Gently Comics: The Salmon of Doubt Vol. 1 & 2
Plagued by nightmares about a childhood he never had, Dirk returns to Cambridge University to seek the advice of his former tutor, the time-traveling Professor Reg Chronotis. There he discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past, and his adventures have only just begun. Featuring fan-favorite characters from the original books as well as the cast from the TV series, including Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood.
Volume 2 collects issues #6–9.