The Doctor is In
Greetings, I am Dr Jeffreyo. I am currently an automotive technical hotline diagnostician-wow that's a mouthful. I work on the phone helping auto techs and mechanics find information and answers to the problems they encounter whilst trying to repair your car or truck. I've been doing this for over 11 years, before this I was 'in the field' doing the work myself. I'm constantly amazed at the crap these manufacturers push off on the consumer as 'hi tech' when all they're concerned about is the profit line and their CAFE [corporate average fuel economy] rating.
I was first introduced to DNA's first book by my brother, as we both liked science fiction. It was great until the last page, when it just stopped. There was no conclusion, no "the end", no hidden pages in the binder which is now torn, no hint that the story ever made it anywhere-I was a trifle upset. When I spoke to my brother a few days later, he wasn't surprised that I'd finished the book so soon. He also pacified me, saving his life in the process, with the title of the second book, and I nearly crashed on the way to the local bookstore in my hurry to get it. Well it was no better, stopping in the same car-hits-brick-wall sort of way. UGH this Adams is such a pusher-his writing should be registered as a controlled substance it's that addictive, I thought. I woke up my brother at about 2am and asked for another dose. "Of what? who is this? Do you know what time it is?", he stammered, just waking up. He was a bit peeved, but then again so was I having just been left hanging AGAIN when I was just beginning to drool. Since I jumped on the H2G2 train a little late there was already in print the third part of the story so I got my third dose of Adams. It's no good, you can't stop from reading it over and over, and the 'high' is incomparable to any other reading experience I've had. I have since purchased them all, including the Dirk Gently pair, and I regularly listen to the audiobook versions of H2G2's 'trilogy in 5 parts', it having easily supplanted the 'five books of Moses' I grew up with as a far more logical approach to answering that nagging question. Well, actually, I was an atheist before I read Adams so this didn't surprise me, and it really is far more logical than Darwin's rantings as well. Hello, fellow Golgafrinchans. It's as plausible as anything else. Magrathea is a bit of a stretch, but perhaps what slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula 65,000 odd years ago wasn't really an asteroid after all. Fine, I admit it, I'm an addict and I can't get enough.
Update, May 2, 2005: I saw the movie this weekend and am currently suffering from the same feelings I had when I finished the first book. I hope there will be four more movies. At least.
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