What a vintage, what a fine taste, what a bouquet. The reworkings, the novels, the audio adaptions, the telly and dvd versions, the script that produced so many exquisite iterations, Douglas Adams yielded a bountiful harvest that year. I remember having read this very edition so many years ago, sitting in a train station in Dundalk waiting for my summer holiday with my family to begin.Which of course never happened to me as it only appeared in recent years as an adaption, lost in a copyright void. But possibly is happening to some curly headed iteration of me this very weekend in a back garden or a pavement somewhere near you. The old Target novelizations went out into the world and had adventures all their own. For hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages and these new ones certainly deserve to also do so... have adventures that is.
James Goss has done an altogether more detailed and even more endearingly bonkers version of this story. Check it out, how he channels the wit and charm of Douglas Adams in his short series of adaptions of the said work. He has his own wee section in my book collection and I adore them. And that is a first for me. To say I "adore" someones writing. It sounds terribly bourgeois..don't you know.
