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The Deeper Meaning of Liff (Paperback)

by Douglas Adams (Author), John Lloyd (Author), Bert Kitchen (Illustrator)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; 2nd Revised edition edition (23 Oct 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330322206
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330322201
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,069 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The updated, revised edition of "The Meaning of Liff", with illustrations from "Private Eye" cartoonist Bert Kitchen.

About the Author
Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. A major movie is currently in development hell and will almost certainly be released any decade now.

Douglas Adams lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. He was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly on May 11th 2001.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Genius!, 20 Aug 2001
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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!
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Random, hilarious...the best book in the world., 12 Aug 2001
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Douglas Adams has already become famous with the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy with it's really random approach to the world in his classic sci-fi humour. In the Deeper Meaning of Liff, Douglas teams up with John LLoyd to make the ultimate in random and true humour. If things that are funny becasue they're true are you thing, then you will instantly fall in love with this book. There is not a single page where there isn't at least one word that will set you bursting out with laughter. All words are place names from around the word and some words even have illustrations to go with them. What should really be known as the random bible, The Deeper Meaning of Liff is a collection of common objects or experiences for which there is no word for it and damn, is it funny or what? Even the little bit at the beginning about the preface reprints is hilarious. So why not sit back when your bored, get the Deeper Meaning of Liff off the shelves and prepare to be laughing for ages, therefore making it the worst book to take to places where you must be quiet. Genius.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a work of genius., 24 Mar 2001
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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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars You know the definition, now visit the place
'The Deeper meaning of Liff' is fairly typical Douglas Adams stuff. It gives amusing descriptions for place names, mostly in the UK, but with a smattering of foreign places too... Read more
Published 2 months ago by A. R. Griew

5.0 out of 5 stars The funniest book ever
I first read my friend's copy of this book over 10 years ago and it still makes me laugh to this day. Read more
Published 3 months ago by K. Alliston

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious
This book will amuse you for hours, the basic idea is that Adams and Lloyd have used place names for all those amusing things in life for which there aren't existing words. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Edward Outhwaite

5.0 out of 5 stars Guaranteed Smiles
This book is a delight from beginning to end, there is a chuckle on every page. A fine example of the quirky wit of the late Douglas Adams.
Published 5 months ago by R. H. M. Simmons

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but slight
This is an excellent little humourous dictionary of things that don't actually have names, but really should (like those corrugated bits of flesh you get round your ankles from... Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2007 by dogbarkssome

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I was expecting something readible, and entertaining. I would advise anyone considering buying this book to buy Salmon of Doubt instead. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2007 by Mike

5.0 out of 5 stars This book had me helpless with laughter
A wonderful concept. Douglas Adams and John Lloyd used actual place names from the UK and beyond, and then assigned meanings to them for situations and descriptions of things... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Save the language - recycle place names!
The idea behind The Meaning of Liff, first published in 1983, as well as The Deeper Meaning of Liff, which followed seven years later, is actually quite simple. Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2000 by Primoz Peterlin

5.0 out of 5 stars Reading this book is akin to taking a soak in a hot bath
This book is a 'dictionary' of words for things or situations which there are no specific words yet. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2000 by rogersa@indigo.ie

3.0 out of 5 stars Not really the high quality we expect from Douglas Adams
The book's funny in places, witty in others, but there is a limit to the number of place names once can read with trite 2 line make-beleive definitions beside them. Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2000

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