Happy Towel Day!
This is not a day to celebrate cotton and terrycloth. This is the day to enjoy the marvelous stories that make up the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” saga written by Douglas Adams.
One of the great things about this series (and there are many great things) is that whenever Douglas Adams wrote the story in a different medium, he changed it. So if you watch the movie, read the book, or listen to the radio show, you will get similar but not exactly the same stories.
Normally this would bug me, but Douglas Adams was the one who made these changes, and since Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was his creation, I love seeing all the ways he tweaked the story. They are all wonderful in their own way.
You can find the radio show and books on Audible.com. If possible, find the audiobook written by Douglas Adams. He does a great job reading it. (Although a narration by Stephen Fry or Martin Freeman would be lovely too.) I own a leather-bound copy of the first four books, so I’ll be reading today.
Douglas Adams hid a lot of wisdom among the satire and comedy of his stories. I think that is why they have lasted so long. Plus, “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”