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En autostopista x80 x99s Guía a la galaxia, autor Douglas Adams propuso famoso que la respuesta a la pregunta x80 x9cWhat es el significado de la vida? X80 x9d era el número 42. ¿Por qué ese número? Con los años, muchas teorías se han propuesto, pero Adams negó firmemente a aclarar. Se ha tomado un ventilador dedicado e investigador, Peter Gill, diez años para establecer por qué 42 es la respuesta. En este volumen se detalla brillante, un maníaco meticulosa e hilarantemente fuera de lo común, Gill nos da toda una serie de razones por las 42 realmente es la respuesta. X80 En la página 42 de Harry Potter y el Filósofo x80 x99s Piedra, Harry descubre que es un mago. X80 Adolf Hitler hizo vegetariano a la edad de 42. x80 Elvis Presley se atragantó con su hamburguesa a la edad de 42. x80 Washington es el Estado 42a. X80 Canal 42 en el Hotel Stanley en Colorado, donde permaneció StephenKing antes de escribir El Resplandor, espectáculos Kubrick x80 x99sfilm del libro en un bucle sin parar.
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, author Douglas Adams famously proposed that the answer to the question 'what is the meaning of life?' was the number 42. Why that number? Over the years, many theories have been put forward, but Adams steadfastly refused to clarify. It has taken a dedicated fan and investigator, Peter Gill, ten years to establish just why 42 is the answer. In this brilliantly detailed, maniacally meticulous and hilariously offbeat volume, Gill gives readers a whole range of reasons.
''If all this thinking about the brain makes your brain hurt, relaxation is at hand with this rather admirably pointless compendium of instances of the number 42. That was what the computer Deep Thought (presumably after consulting all its modules) announced was the answer to life, the universe and everything in Douglas Adams s Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy. We learn here that 42C is ''a normal body temperature for a chicken (a not-yet-roasted chicken, I take it), the length in days of Roman Polanski s imprisonment for psychiatric evaluation, the diameter in inches of the world s deepest hole and the equivalent, in millions of sticks of dynamite, of the energy contained in one gram of matter. An author who offers extracts from ''two of my favourite Wikipedia pages'' is not making any great claims to literary or conceptual merit, but the book does offer a touching tribute to and mini-biography of Douglas Adams himself, and is overall a friendly, semi-satirical celebration of human pattern-seeking. Can it really be a coincidence that exactly 42 cups of coffee have elapsed since I first saw this book?'' - The Guardian
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Peter Gill was born in England and educated in Longridge, Blackburn and Reading, from where he went to Oxford but left early when he realised there wasn't quite enough of interest to sustain a full weekend. On the occasions when work has troubled his day he has conveyed the impression of being a government research scientist, radio journalist, college lecturer, something in IT, PR drone, and itinerant sheep shearer. He now lives in a Shropshire home, accompanied by one wife, up to four daughters, a cat, the F dog, five chickens and six goldfish. He has promised never, ever, to try and keep stick insects again. His time is largely divided between the kitchen and a room on the top floor with a handy bolt on the outside. This is his first book if you're not counting the pamphlet on electric fencing.
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- VerlagBeautiful Books Limited
- Erscheinungsdatum2011
- ISBN 10 1907616128
- ISBN 13 9781907616129
- EinbandTapa blanda
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten352
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