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Originally Posted by octothorp
Nice job with the first two picks guys; I would have taken One Hundred Years of Solitude if it was still available.
I've been going back and forth about several directions to go with this pick. In the end, I'm going to go with Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide the the Galaxy in the Science Fiction section. It might be a little off-the-draft board early, but I'm fairly confident most of my other favorites will still be available in later rounds. It's too late for me to write much about it tonight, but I'll do so tomorrow.
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Fantastic pick Octo! No way did I expect this one to be taken so high. One of my very favourite books. It was my No.1 choice for the Humour category.
Some extremely funny quotes from this book:
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Arthur: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.
Ford: Why, what did she tell you?
Arthur: I don't know, I didn't listen."
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
"Ford stood up. "We're safe," he said.
"Oh good," said Arthur.
"We're in a small galley cabin," said Ford, "in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet."
"Ah," said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word
safe that I wasn't previously aware of."
To name but a few.
Like I said great choice octo, darn you!!!