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Originally Posted by mores

I have fond memories of Douglas Adams. His HHGG, which I hadn't read yet and which caused me to feel like I had this huge gap in education, got me started in eBooks, and I started it off with eBook piracy
It was so simple to get the LITs.

That was 7 years ago, or something like that. I recently tried reading the HHGG again, but I had to put the "book" down since I couldn't stand his absurd style.

I thought I was alone in this. I've tried a few times to read the entire Hitchhiker's Saga, but I tend to get lost somewhere in the middle of the second book. I enjoy Adams' style (he wrote one of my favorite Doctor Who stories, The Pirate Planet), but his writing tends to confuse me a bit in the long form.

Based on the recommendations in this thread, I'll have to give Pratchett a try. The only experience I've had with his story telling is the Discworld video game for the Playstation (very good game with Rincewind [voiced by Eric Idle] as the hero(?)). If that the humor in his books is similar to that in the game, I think it would definitely be worth a read.