Hardy Boys, blue hardbacks. Stopped (outgrew them) right before the paperback versions took over.

In the very very early 90s, I got into listening to audiobooks while at work. I basically hit up every library in town looking for books and wound up listening to a lot of things I would never have read on purpose.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by the late great Douglas Adams who is more commonly known for his Hitchhikers Guide t the Galaxy series.

Though to be truthful, I’ve never read it. I have always listened to it on audio read by the author. My first encounter with it was an abridged version which was still quite decent, whoever abridged it did a good job. After the second Dirk Gently book came out unabridged, I had a nice letter exchange with his assistant asking about when the first book would get released unabridged on audio. Long story short, when the contract for the abridged version ran out.

My wife sent me a video a little while ago of some guy making a comment on another guy’s book collection and the second guy saying they were his shelf trophies for his audiobooks.

This is one of those times. I’m literally sitting in the café in a Barnes & Noble after having just seen this book on the shelf and thinking I keep meaning to read this.

Yes, I’m male. I know the post was asking about females, but I was responding to another response. Actually, I didn’t really give it any thought at the time and just went, “She is talking about liking a farewell to arms, and I was just telling that story…”

Sorry for the confusion

Just some more info, the TV show’s first season follows the book pretty closely. The one change I noticed, switching which of two characters dies something, actually makes more sense in the TV show.

However, the book series goes off in a weird direction while the show does its own thing from season 2 on. I gave up on book two halfway through, but loved the tv series until it jumped the shark. BTW the show shows exactly how the bodies are drained of blood.

I was just in another thread yesterday talking about books that were ruined because we had to read them in high school. Except, junior year we read A Fairwell to Arms in America Lit (1984-85 school year) and the entire class was so into it. Afterwards we watched the movie, not sure if it was the 1932 or 1957 version, and we all hated how much they screwed it up. The class got a bit out of control talking about how much and how badly they changed the whole point. I think Mr. Schemer was a bit taken aback at how much these 16-17 year old kids got into that book.

Looking it up, it was published almost a year before her death and there had already been reporting that whomever it was that owned the publishing rights were taking advantage of her estate.

I think it’s something that has to be judged in each individual case.

Sanderson completing Jordon’s Wheel of Time series was planned by Jordon before his passing and appeared to be judged well by the fans.

Christopher Tolkien going through his father’s notes and publishing more Middle Earth writings were also well received.

The Salmon of Doubt was published unfinished by Douglas Adams estate after his passing along with some other writings and I liked that. However fans haven’t been as welcoming towards Eoin Colfer’s continuation of the Hitchhiker’s series with And Another Thing.

I personally hated Go Fetch a Watchmen, a book Harper Lee did not want published, but was released anyway after her death.

Remember, the people behind all this want libraries gone. They hate the whole idea of public libraries. Publicly funded services that aren’t there to nickel and dime a profit out of you are anathema to their very being.

All this anti-LGBTQ+ stuff they are stirring up is just to get the fringe lunatics into the mix.

They will just keep doing whatever they can to hinder and handicap public libraries until they are nothing but a shell of their former stature at which time they can finally get rid of them without much public outcry.

Fighting for your public libraries!

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.

“The first ever fully realized detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic.”

I suggest reading it twice, it’s all there the first time, you just didn’t notice.