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Tonight after school I went to Woodbury, MN, to retrieve an extremely rare audiotape from a library. It is the first in the series of abridged books on tape read entirely by Stephen Moore, which means that in my possession right now are all three. There are actually four, but the fourth one , "So long and thanks for all the fish", isn't that important to me.

Stephen Moore was the original voice actor who played the role of Marvin in the BBC radio play that spawned the whole catalog of media that is the hitchhiker's giuide to the galaxy. I would go so far as to say that he is, therefore, as responsible for the success of the project as anyone besides the author. It appears Moore's not involved this time around, which is too bad. This time Alan Rickman is doing Marvin, a suicidally depressed robot. Marvin is superintelligent, completely miserable, and easy to relate to. Marvin was key to the popularity of the series.

Now I've got to get these tapes digitized.

Here's the movie site. Pretty cool.

posted by dale @ 11:10 PM