>has become completely culturally irrelevant
>>25218262How can people like this novel? Excluding the first part, the rest of the book is one of the worst thing I've ever read (and my expectations were extremely high at first).
>>25218262Good. It's sad to see the West fall and all of that but losing some of the smug bullshit isn't so bad.
>>25218262Zoomers will memory hole everything, gen alf will memory hole the existence of zoomers
>>25218374Most people don't know good prose from bad. It's why Andy Weir and Douglas Adams are popular.
>>25218374can you explain why? let me guess. you're an american that doesn't like sarcasm
>>25218262> the plans were filed in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of leopard> so they were filedthis criticism of government can no longer be tolerated by the left. meanwhile, the right doesnt think its funny that the ultimate question of life the universe and everything is what is 6 times 7
>>25218947Whenever i hear people talking about "good" and "bad" prose it's almost aways a discussion of "more words = good, less words = bad", as if people need to read a full paragraph describing the color of a random piece of furniture or the climate. In other words, it sounds like pseudo intellectual bullshitshit. I didn't like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because a lot of stuff in it is just random bullshit being thrown around, and that has nothing to do with prose.
>>25219007Made a typo on the first bullshit, my bad
>>25218262Good. That stops it from being ruined by retarded zoomers and gen alphas
>>25218374>How can people like this novel?They were fourteen when they read it.
>>25219007>when people talk about the form they don't talk about the content!!well, yeah...
>>25219014>>Well, yeah...Well yeah... What?
>>25218262One of my favorites. The message is too... punk to be allowed to become popular. And too whimsical but also nihilist. Things arent allowed to be that any more.
>>25218947>>25219007"Prose" is for retards who can't into storytelling, ideas, or poetry. It's the equivalent of hyperfixating on the exact brand of brush you should use for painting sea foam vs. for painting the crest of a wave. There is nothing more rage inducing to the prosefag than the fact that good works are good regardless of "prose", as evidenced by translated works. Hence why so many on /lit/ seethe endlessly over translations.
>>25219037It's like complaining that someone who is practicing kendo isn't cutting people down. There is an art to form and the technique that is undeniable, even if ideally/teleologically the two should coincide.
>>25218262When was it culturally relevant? >>25218947What makes his prose bad?
>>25219055Linking you to this anon >>25219054 he explained my sentiments about this better than even i could
>>25219058>What makes his prose bad?The fags of this board seem to think that more words equals better writing. There's nothing wrong with Douglas Adams' writing. Andy Weir i can understand the disdain because some of the reddit-tier dialogues are genuinely groan inducing. But outside of that, the plot is genuinely interesting
>>25219083>doesn't say anythingOk, what makes his prose good. My point had nothing to do with the quality of Adams' prose.
>>25218994>directionbrainIf god existed and we weren't all a bunch of talking apes, I would pray for you.
>>25218994Nigga WHAT are you talking about
>>25219055>someone who is practicing kendo isn't cutting people downneat, a paradox
>>25218262literal who book
>>25219058>When was it culturally relevantThere was a revival of popularity in the 00s. There was a Hollywood film, the text adventure game was remade, and geek stores were packed with merchandise. I remember seeing loads of white guys in Arthur cosplay, but these days I don’t see any. The Douglas Adams estate has done a poor job of keeping the legacy alive. It feels like they’ve been holding out for a massive deal with Netflix or Amazon, but it never materialized.
>>25219145On a scale of re to reeeeeeeeeeeee, how autistic are you?
>On a scale of re to reeeeeeeeeeeee, how autistic are you
>>25219165>gem alarmwe should just go talk about literature over there. this place is invaded with humorless tasteless norms now.
>>25219151I'd say like an in-between, like just reee
>>25219009Nobody fucking cares, why do you do this
>>25219089What a surprise, the person who uses the trannymeme is a gaythiest tranny.
>>25219050>The message is too... punk to be allowed to become popular.It was popular for decades
>>25219842A hairless ape says what?
>>25218262It's a sad franchise for me. The first book is great, the second one two. The third one is passable and has some exciting stuf. The fourth one is nice and I like the love story with Fernshen or whatever. The fifth one is a dissapointment. We already have a perfect adaptation with the 1981 tv-series. The 2005 movie is good although it kinda missed the point with all the american humor. It introduced an unnecessary love story. I'm happy nobody has done anything with the franchise. It exists in perfect stasis for me to enjoy.
>>25219054>>25219073No one really seethes, the fact that literature has to be dumbed down to smooth brains like you is not something to celebrate.Prose is to literature what cinematography is to film, it is a unique component of the medium, things like ideas and storytelling can be found in every medium, only prose can be used as a measurement of how good a work of literature truly is.If you fail to see this you have no understanding of literature.
>>25219054TRVKE
>>25220009>only prose can be used as a measurement of how good a work of literature truly isI was with you until this. Prose is 100% what camera work/editing is to movies and can make a work of literature waaaay better, but there are great movies or shows made with constraints (or even artistic decisions) to camera work or whatever that still excel at the story, themes and characters and sometimes even is enhanced by said simple camera work. How does this not apply to literature? Wouldn’t you say sometimes simple prose could potentially enhance a passage that a hundred words couldn’t achieve?
We're probably drifting out of the era of really making sense of a thing. British society being characterised as highly orderly, repressed, and bureaucratic isn't really true anymore.I mean, it's still bureaucratic, but the bureaucrats are now highly incompetent DEI hires, and foreign business bros who bought their way into the system.
It's a story satirizing a society which is now a parody of itself, populated by characters who would probably shoot themselves if they spent 2 days in downtown london 2026.
The year is 2026 and I still like it.
>>25220223Like I said, telling a good story, having well written characters or interesting themes are not things exclusively found in literature, yes they do enhance your reading experience in the same way they could enhance your viewing or listening experience depending on the medium.Prose is exclusive to literature, it is the essence of the medium, I was honestly just replying to that retard, you dont actually have be into prose to enjoy reading a book.
>>25218262possibly the most reddit book ever made
>>25220257Wrong.
>>25219970>FernshenFenchurch>The fifth one is a dissapointment.Douglas Adams said that loads of people told him him they found Mostly Harmless depressing and downbeat in a way the others weren't. He said that he was going through a really nasty period in his personal life when he wrote it, and unsurprisingly some of that leaked across. He wanted to write a sixth book, to try to pull the series back up and not have it end on such a sour note.I thought MH had some good things (the bird doing an ultra-hi-tech version of a TV auto-calibrating itself, the Perfectly Normal Beasts, etc) but it was thin, as though it got rushed out for a cash grab. And yes the underlying tone was a little bitter, perhaps (although he's never exactly warm and comfy).
>>25218374The first part is very enjoyable and is the only one anyone quotes anywayI liked aspects of the love story in part 3
DUDE42LMAO
>>25219970>Perfect adaptation>TV series>Not the radio play
>>25218374To be fair it is a novelization of a radio play.
>>25218262After having read it as a teenager, I could piss a book like this now. The problem is that nobody these days would want to read it.
>>25218262Adams tried his best to deliberately kill it off with the last book, then regretted it and went to go try and fix the intentionally bad ending with one more sequel, then dropped dead before he could finish it.
>>25221216>intentionally bad endingKilling off, or chronicling the death of, Marvin, was supposed to be the finale (Along with a happy ending for Arthur) but yeah, he got an inspiration for another. I think it was supposed to tie the Dirk Gently characters into it and quantum something something probabilities. But since he looked, it vanished. Along with him.
>>25219130that’s not a paradox
>>25218374It's funny.
>>25218262I always thought the palm of the hand looked like buttcheaks.
>>25221103the radio play isn't an adaptation. That *is* Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
>>25221831maybe even testicles that up close
