The updated, revised edition of "The Meaning of Liff", with illustrations from "Private Eye" cartoonist Bert Kitchen.
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The updated, revised edition of "The Meaning of Liff", with illustrations from "Private Eye" cartoonist Bert Kitchen.
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Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001. After Douglas died the movie of Hitchhiker moved out of development hell into the clear uplands of production, using much of Douglas' original script and ideas. Douglas shares the writing credit for the movie with Karey Kirkpatrick.
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104 of 107 people found the following review helpful
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What a fantastic book - what a brilliant concept. Hundreds of words simply wasting their time hanging around on signposts. Hundreds of objects, situations, states of mind etc. for which there are no words in common use.
Two quick examples...
Have you ever walked along a street, only to encounter someone coming in the opposite direction, at which point you engage in a little dance that involves both of you skipping from side to side, interspersed with apologies? You have? Droitwich!
Those bits you find in bacon, that you only actually discover when you bite on them and break your teeth...? Beccles!
As for seeing someone you recognise at the opposite end of a long corridor, and judging when is just precisely the right time to let them know you've seen them... well I'll leave that for you to find out yourself.
This is a great, great book. One you can come back to time and time again, and always find yourself sniggering, or laughing out loud, or sometimes just nodding sagely (with a smirk at your mouth!).
If anything, The Deeper Meaning of Liff is not quite as good as the original Meaning of Liff, the former being a thicker version of the latter (extended by using words hanging around on non-British signposts), but if you don't have the original, you might as well buy this. It can only be 5 stars! Fantastic!
Two quick examples...
Have you ever walked along a street, only to encounter someone coming in the opposite direction, at which point you engage in a little dance that involves both of you skipping from side to side, interspersed with apologies? You have? Droitwich!
Those bits you find in bacon, that you only actually discover when you bite on them and break your teeth...? Beccles!
As for seeing someone you recognise at the opposite end of a long corridor, and judging when is just precisely the right time to let them know you've seen them... well I'll leave that for you to find out yourself.
This is a great, great book. One you can come back to time and time again, and always find yourself sniggering, or laughing out loud, or sometimes just nodding sagely (with a smirk at your mouth!).
If anything, The Deeper Meaning of Liff is not quite as good as the original Meaning of Liff, the former being a thicker version of the latter (extended by using words hanging around on non-British signposts), but if you don't have the original, you might as well buy this. It can only be 5 stars! Fantastic!
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
This book is a great companion when touring the country. Look again at all those boring road signs and look up the definitions that have been assigned to them. Never again will journeys be dull. Witty, hilarious and some just down right rude, this is the work of a warped mind and it's brilliant! One of the most tumbed books in my collection. Every "Hitch Hikers Guide" fan will love this and so will others new to Adams' work. Not yet met anyone who didn't appreciate it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a 'dictionary' of words for things or situations which there are no specific words yet. For example, Ipplepen - "A useless writing implement made by sellotaping 6 biros together which is supposed to make it easier to write 100 lines".
What makes this book totally brilliant and original is the shock of realisation that everything described in this book is totally familiar to us and yet we never give them a second thought. Until now. It is a book to be dipped into when you are tired of meandering through Middlemarch or bored of being bamboozled by Beckett, and you just want to put your brain in neutral. It's unashamedly light reading, but what of it. You pick it up and it makes you go 'ahhhh'. Douglas Adams's stamp is all over it - the book has a life of its own. Buy it NOW !
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Not for me
Bough after hearing a really funny radio interview with the author - book was not as funny as the interview.
Published 17 days ago by A JENKINS
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Size doesn't matter
It's a great laugh, but Do look inside before buying to make sure it's appropriate if you're buying it as a present. It's 'cheeky'.
Published 29 days ago by sweetreams
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Douglas Adam's The Deeper Meaning of Liff
I don't know what it says about our family's sense of hunour, but we bought it for all the (grown/up) children.
Published 1 month ago by Mr. Royce Lindsey-noble, Mrs Lindsey-noble
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Life is richer for 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff'
Douglas Adams, we miss you ..... but you did leave us this quirky, charming, oh so humourous without anyone being the butt of the joke (ie intelligent and creative humour)... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. Margaret Hannah
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Also for a Friend
Similar to "The Meaning of Liff", I already have this book, and thought it would be great for a friend about to have surgery. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Dormouse
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The Deeper Meaning of Laughter
This is even better than the Meaning of Liff. It is basically the original book with further, funnier additions. Hysterical laughing. Tears. Snot. It just wasn't attractive.
Published on 16 May 2011 by dize
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Totally unique
I read this book some years ago and it was one of the few to make me laugh out loud. To me, it struck the right chord and I can understand and appreciate every definition... Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2010
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chucklesome
very very funny. having said that my wife didn't find it so. but I am entirely in tune with Douglas Adams. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2010 by bart4books
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The Deeper Meaning of Liff
The latest addition to the bathroom library. I read the original Meaning of Liff years ago and had forgotten it. Read more
Published on 24 April 2010 by Wannocks
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A good new version of the original
The description should explain that this is an expanded version of the original "Meaning of Liff". Both are brilliant, but there is little point in buying both.
Published on 13 Mar 2010 by Dr. M. W. Patterson
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