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		Keyframe on May 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today is Towel Day Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of those types of books that can't really be successfully adapted to any other medium. That's probably the reason, unless the style of humour doesn't, well, humour them.

dyates on May 25, 2016 [–]

Considering it was a radio series before it was a book, and was also adapted into an innovative text adventure, I'm not so sure that's true.

Keyframe on May 25, 2016 | [–]

I'm aware of that, yet I still consider it not working well in any other medium. Just my opinion.

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