hmmm well the last book sucked. and Douglas Adams died before he could make it right. but he meant to make it right.
I haven't got into Harry Potter but it would be like, Harry Potter kills Voldemort by blowing up the sun and killing all mankind. Forever. Irreversibly. THE END. that would suck.
first three books PWND tho.
" "Now Earthlings ..." whirred the Vogon (he didn't know that Ford
Prefect was in fact from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse,
and wouldn't have cared if he had) "I present you with a simple
choice! Either die in the vacuum of space, or ..." he paused for
melodramatic effect, "tell me how good you thought my poem was!"
He threw himself backwards into a huge leathery bat-shaped seat and
watched them. He did the smile again.
Ford was rasping for breath. He rolled his dusty tongue round his
parched mouth and moaned.
Arthur said brightly: "Actually I quite liked it."
Ford turned and gaped. Here was an approach that had quite simply not
occurred to him.
The Vogon raised a surprised eyebrow that effectively obscured his
nose and was therefore no bad thing.
"Oh good ..." he whirred, in considerable astonishment.
"Oh yes," said Arthur, "I thought that some of the metaphysical
imagery was really particularly effective."
Ford continued to stare at him, slowly organizing his thoughts around
this totally new concept. Were they really going to be able to
bareface their way out of this?
"Yes, do continue ..." invited the Vogon.
"Oh ... and er ... interesting rhythmic devices too," continued
Arthur, "which seemed to counterpoint the ... er ... er ..." He
floundered.
Ford leaped to his rescue, hazarding "counterpoint the surrealism of
the underlying metaphor of the ... er ..." He floundered too, but
Arthur was ready again.
"... humanity of the ..."
"Vogonity," Ford hissed at him.
"Ah yes, Vogonity (sorry) of the poet's compassionate soul," Arthur
felt he was on a home stretch now, "which contrives through the medium
of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to
terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other," (he was reaching
a triumphant crescendo ...) "and one is left with a profound and vivid
insight into ... into ... er ..." (... which suddenly gave out on
him.) Ford leaped in with the coup de gr@ce:
"Into whatever it was the poem was about!" he yelled. Out of the
corner of his mouth: "Well done, Arthur, that was very good."
The Vogon perused them. For a moment his embittered racial soul had
been touched, but he thought no - too little too late. His voice took
on the quality of a cat snagging brushed nylon.
"So what you're saying is that I write poetry because underneath my
mean callous heartless exterior I really just want to be loved," he
said. He paused. "Is that right?"
Ford laughed a nervous laugh. "Well I mean yes," he said, "don't we
all, deep down, you know ... er ..."
The Vogon stood up.
"No, well you're completely wrong," he said, "I just write poetry to
throw my mean callous heartless exterior into sharp relief. I'm going
to throw you off the ship anyway. Guard! Take the prisoners to number
three airlock and throw them out!"
"What?" shouted Ford.
A huge young Vogon guard stepped forward and yanked them out of their
straps with his huge blubbery arms.
"You can't throw us into space," yelled Ford, "we're trying to write a
book."
"Resistance is useless!" shouted the Vogon guard back at him. It was
the first phrase he'd learnt when he joined the Vogon Guard Corps.
The captain watched with detached amusement and then turned away.
Arthur stared round him wildly.
"I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I
don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and
wouldn't enjoy it!"
The guard grasped them both firmly round the neck, and bowing
deferentially towards his captain's back, hoiked them both protesting
out of the bridge. A steel door closed and the captain was on his own
again. He hummed quietly and mused to himself, lightly fingering his
notebook of verses.
"Hmmmm," he said, "counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying
metaphor ..." He considered this for a moment, and then closed the
book with a grim smile.
"Death's too good for them," he said.
The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.