Douglas Adams'
books genuinely shaped the way my life turned out.

I always loved to read and Mum took us to the library every week once we were old enough to join. The first book I got out on the exciting day that I was allowed an adult library ticket was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. After reading that I inhaled everything Douglas Adams ever wrote.

The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul was the first book I ever yearned to own. I asked for it for Christmas and spent the day curled up on the sofa reading it in sheer delight. The joy of ownership was a revelation to me and probably accounts for the insane number of books that are now piled up around the house in precarious heaps - all well read and well loved.

As a teenager it was Adams that partly inspired my list of fictional men that I judged potential boyfriends by. The list of characters I would run away with still stands as Ford Prefect, David Lister, The Doctor and Mr Darcy.

When we got the internet one of the first idle searches I did in Google was for Ford Prefect and that was how I ended up on H2G2 (before it got all weird and BBC owned). I loved that site and went along to the first birthday meet-up they held in Hyde Park. It was there that I met Mr Innogen and eight years later we are still very happy indeed.

So I can honestly say that it was Mr Adams' books which literally changed my life.

Not funny but true and making me feel quite nostalgic.
(Innogen, Sat 17 May 2008, 12:03, 2 replies)

Dave Lister?
Are you quite sure?

I can only assume you like curry.
( Legionary - My god, Brian, there's a message in my alphabets, Sat 17 May 2008, 21:06, closed)

Lister
he is an odd choice, I admit. But aside from the slobbiness and the curry he is a quite a romantic character - devoted, generally kind and quite soft. Honest, it's not *as* weird as it first sounds!
(Innogen, Sun 18 May 2008, 22:30, closed)