i remember reading the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy to fit in among a group of geeks when i was in high school. i found it insultingly bad and unfunny, particularly the lulsorandum quirky "humour" that's neither smart nor otherwise captivating, sprinkled all over a really boring story in very meager amounts, coupled with the constant changes of pace and mood of the story, fluctuating erratically between light hearted comedy and unwarranted drama, while also not having a real plot and generally going nowhere. i really felt like i geuinely wasted my time reading it, and i never felt that way even after staring the wall for hours.
you were filtered by elon musk's favourite book
>>25039964It's a BBC radio play. The beeps and bloops from autistic audio engineers is the best part.
>>25039967another more reason to hate it. though knowing musk and his personal crusade to become king reddit, i doubt he ever read the book in the first place.
>>25039964it is just a silly one or two hour read
>>25039964>i remember reading the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy to fit in among a group of geeks when i was in high school.Don't mistake disappointment in yourself for disappointment in a book.
>>25039964>Uhhhhhhhhm actually The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters is often defended via a kind of post-ironic, Adult Swim–era apologia (“it’s bad on purpose”), a closer textual analysis reveals that this defense collapses under even minimal critical scrutiny. At the level of narrative structure, the film gestures vaguely toward the monomyth Ignignokt as the authoritarian Father Figure, Carl as the profane Chorus, but then immediately refuses to do anything interesting with these elements. This isn’t subversion; it’s abdication. The screenplay repeatedly mistakes randomness for absurdism, a distinction Camus himself would have found embarrassing to explain.Consider the film’s reliance on metatextual noise: abrupt musical numbers, digressive celebrity cameos, and jokes that terminate not in punchlines but in what can only be described as ontological shrugging. The viewer is not invited to laugh so much as dared to endure. Irony here becomes a shield against meaning, not a lens through which meaning is refracted. The Aqua Teens themselves suffer from a profound flanderization crisis. Master Shake is no longer a critique of selfish masculinity; he is simply loud. Frylock’s rationalism, once a satirical anchor, is rendered inert by the film’s refusal to let logic function even as a foil. Meatwad arguably the show’s only remaining site of pathos is reduced to a sequence of noises and body horror gags that suggest contempt for the audience’s emotional memory of the character.
>>25039964i read it a couple of years ago and thought it was alright. it has its moments
>Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 93 million miles is a small blue-green planet whose ape-descendant life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.peak reddit comedy, he is so heckin witty
>>25039964I liked H2G2 when I first read it. I was in high school. I liked it less after each subsequent reread.
>>25040571This can be applied to everything Adult Swim has made except XRA, and the cause of this is Andy Kaufman
>>25040629It was witty, fresh stuff for 20 year olds until reddit. They also ruined Carl Sagan and science.
>>25040629in 1985 it was something different. If you were actually a geek like me and not just trying to fit in with geeks. I enjoyed playing the INFOCOM text adventure game in the school's AppIe II+ room. Which led to me reading the book to get better at the game we all couldn't beat. Its just irreverent humor. I should say "humour" because British humor can be sort of hit or miss and quite dry at times.
>This thread againOP. Stop making this thread. No, don't deny it. We all know it's you. Shut the fuck up already. Read for fun. Post for fun.
>>25040629>2026 zoomer drenched in layers of irony and demoralization>can't enjoy clever writing and whimsyNot our fault.
>>25041149>zoomerI would bet I am older than you
>>25041472To defend digital watches this fucking hard does make you rather old.
>>25041935To continually pester others about trivial matters makes you a zoomer.
>>25039964>satire of late-1970s middle-class English manners>zoomers don't get itmind == blownYou retards actually think it's a sci-fi novel, don't you?
>>25040629Jesus Christ you're not lying, this is the platonic ideal of reddit
>>25039964Good godThis is what zero pussy does to a man
There is no greater shame for me than liking a book which Reddit likes too. I feel that I've permanently dishonored my family name when I recall that I enjoy content which Reddit enjoys too. Is there any hope for a cope, or when le Reddit le said "nous sommes d'accord" was it over for me?
>>25043093>Is there any hope for a copeyeah finish high school
>>25039964listen to the radio show or watch the TV show. i had the same reaction to the book, and i realized on listening to the original that it is actually pretty funny - it's just obviously designed for an audio medium and comes across badly in text. i can't hold that against it: most music would make mediocre poetry.
>>25043407also a line like >>25040629 reads as peak reddit in text but still works when you've got a deadpan English narrator reading it as though it's simply factual information.
>>25040629Peak Reddit Comedy is Deadpool. You have to remember that the humor of Douglas Adams and Monty Python preceded reddit but the fandom around them in America became the fertile ground for pioneer internet culture which was formed by geeks. This culture ossified into reddit and their infatuation with the same humor almost cloned for so long is what makes them so cringe. Then when making humor as adults it was the same shit, Rick and Morty is just a much less original version of HHGTTG. But in the 2000's 4chan was pretty much part of the mainstream internet culture but with racist jokes and pedo lust keeping it offensive enough to outsiders. Gradually the diversification of boards lead to divergent cultures which subreddits never did. We find reddit so embarrassing because it reminds us of our childhood and a man is always embarrassed when he reflects too much on his youth, because since then he changed from his experiences. Reddit has not changed from when they were 13. But if someone had not been suffocated by this humor from childhood and by its persistence on reddit, it would strike him as funny. Vogans reading really shitty poetry to a helpless prisoner and being a people whose while culture and form of culturally expression is bureaucracy. The very premise that Earth is destroyed not by a sinister Darth vader but by intergalactic bureaucrats, the banality of evil, in a form of imminent domain, coinciding with the protagonist facing the same thing in the UK in regards to his house. It simultaneously makes humanity look silly from an extraterrestrial viewpoint while depicting extraterrestrials as just a much worse form of humanity
>>25039964No cap the first three books were pretty good. It's books four and five where the author totally gives up.
>>25039964>i found it insultingly bad and unfunny, particularly the lulsorandum quirky "humour"All the rage in British humour at the time. See Monty Python as another example. Humour is fundamentally a matter of taste, in the large sense. Supposedly Prince Potemkin was regarded as a great wit for his knack at silly voices and impressions, and there was a time in Europe where scatalogical and flatulent humour was common in royal courts. The lolsorandom humour in the Hitchhiker's Guide books didn't have the connotations then that it has now.
>>25043448monty python >>> douglas adams, they are not even in the same league
>>25040781Agreed. Tolkien stands up to rereading. Adams, not so much.
>>25043684The final redpill is they're both reddit
>>25045637No. The final "red pill" is that your whole generation are the redditors.>6 7 >6 7
>>25039964I liked it as a kid, as kids will enjoy such farcical and irreverent stories. Reading it again as a young but inexperienced man, I found I enjoyed it much less, for reasons I had trouble articulating to myself at the time. Now as an older and perhaps, or perhaps not, wiser man, I find it a sad and somewhat distasteful testament of the depressive self-destructive path that material determinism leads to. I mourn that a man whom I see as wanting so badly to experience joy could not grasp it for his ego and instead chose to fix his gaze on the earth instead of the heavens.
>>25039986>another more reason to hate it.That is not a good reason to hate it at all. It is a very anti-intellectual reason, though sadly the term "anti-intellectual" itself has become an unfairly loaded and charged word. Regardless, it is foolish to live your life as the programmatic reaction of what others do or think or believe.
