I'm very saddened by the news of Douglas Adams's death. I'll never forget when I first read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...I was about 11 years old, on a Greyhound bus traveling from my dad's parent's in Eastern Washington, to my mom's parent's in Seattle. I had borrowed the book from my sister, and the cover was ripped off because it had been given away from the local library. I had never read anything like it before, never even imagined a book like it. Even if I didn't understand the lines, "It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water."