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I never reallized how broad Douglas Adams (also known as Douglas Noel Adams, born in Cambridge in 1952, so he keeps repeating the joke that he is 'DNA') was. He passed away a few years ago, and his friends, family, and editors combed through his computer (he was a Mac fanatic) and produced this book.

This is not a novel, although there are snippets of stories, including the titular "Salmon of Doubt". Many of the items are collected speeches and interviews with Douglas Adams.

Most of the material is "laugh out loud funny". I was reading it while driving to Fredericton, NB, and Rob (who was driving at the time) had to keep asking "what? what?" when I laughed, so I ended up reading many of the bits to him.

Among Adams' many interests was talk of evolutionary biology. And he was a "radical atheist", meaning just that he really, really was an atheist, not just someone who didn't really believe in the existence of God. He argues this quite convincingly, mainly taking the line that the world, the universe, is built from the ground up, not the top down.

Thoroughly enjoyable -- this one is going to stay on my bookshelf, except of course when it is being lent out for others to read.