h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This morning I finished reading The Salmon of Doubt.

It was a veritable roller-coaster of a ride and quite possibly the most moving book I have ever read. I do mean this. I'm not a blurb writer trying to sell you this book, I'm sure you've already read it and understand what I mean.

I was in the middle of reading the Dirk Gently - Salmon of Doubt when it stopped and I was introduced to the transcript of an interview with Newsweek. As the anger died, having been ripped from the surreal conversation about transporting rhinos, I realised what the time frame was on this interview, DNA being 49 and in Santa Fe. I read on, wanting to tell him to skip the gym, take some asprin and see a GP knowing that I had all the persuasive ability of someone screaming answers at a television ameshow. The transcript ended with talk of his wife and daughter.

The book continued with Richard Dawkins lament. It carried with it the gravity that I had not realised from the comments made by Cerf and Fry.

I am in the process of re-reading TSOD and plan on re-devouring DNAs other great works in the very, very near future.