"Дуглас Адамс. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" - читать интересную книгу автора

Douglas Adams is the best-selling author of the Hitch Hiker books: The
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the
Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All
the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has appeared in more forms than
one might reasonably expect, most of which flatly contradict each other.
It has appeared as a BBC radio series (its original form), a BBC TV
series, all sorts of different records, cassettes, and CD's, a computer
game, and also, apotheotically, a bath towel. A series of graphic novels
is currently in preparation, and the motion-picture version is confidently
expected any decade now.
He is also the author of the Dirk Gently books, Dirk Gently's Holistic
Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. He is currently
working on another book in this series.
He has also written The Deeper Meaning of Liff with John Lloyd and,
most recently, the travel and wildlife book Last Chance to See, with Mark
Carwardine. He is making more TV programmes these days and also frequently
lectures on computers and semi-extinct parrots.
He lives partly in Islington, London, partly in Provence, France, but
mostly in airport bookstalls.
Also by Douglas Adams in Pan Books
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the
Universe Life, the Universe and Everything So Long, and Thanks for All the
Fish Mostly Harmless
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

With John Lloyd The Deeper Meaning of Liff

With Mark Carwardine Last Chance to See Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Pan Books in association with William HeinemannFor Jane This book was
written and typeset on an Apple Macintosh II and an Apple LaserWriter II
NTX. The word processing software was FullWrite Professional from Ashton
Tate. The fnal proofing and photosetting was done by The Last Word, London
SW6.

I would like to say an enormous thank you to my amazing and wonderful
editor, Sue Freestone.
Her help, support, criticism, encouragement. enthusiasm and sandwiches
have been beyond measure. I also owe thanks and apologies to Sophie, James
and Vivian who saw so little of her during the final weeks of work.
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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever
produced the expression "as pretty as an airport".