Welcome to Litsy!

🎧📚 Still makes me laugh AND Chris Barrie (Rimmer) is a FABULOUS narrator!!

On a mining ship 3 million light years from Earth we have a human (Lister), a service Android (Kryton), an evolved cat (Cat), a hologram of a dead crew mate (Rimmer) and a senile computer (Holly).

Let the hilarity begin!

They don‘t make it back to Earth but they meet a lot of interesting people & monsters on the way!

Always going to be ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+

🎧📚 I‘ve read this book & now I‘ve listened. Chris Barrie is Rimmer in the British TV series. Great impressions of Lister, Hollie, Cat & Kryton.

The omnibus is in my top 10 Sci-Fi books of all time.

If you have no intention of watching the show then you might enjoy this book if you liked Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy or Doctor Who but beware it‘s a bit more adult & silly.

WHY ISN‘T THERE A BIG FINISH OR NOVELIZED SERIES? 😭

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July was a good month of reading. Managed 14 books. The best was tagged above. I DNF a couple this month but never count them. 75 left to read to hit my Goodreads total.

Dave Lister has ended up on one of Saturn's moons and he wants to go home. Joining the Space Corps should get him there when he ends up on Red Dwarf but thats when it all goes wrong.

Having watched the TV series I knew I was going to love this and I did. I loved finding out how Lister came to be aboard Red Dwarf. The story is well written and can easily see each character saying the words. A must for any fan of the show. 5*

Here‘s how I‘ll be spending this weekend. The only way to stand this summer heat. 💪🏻

Last read this when I was a teenager. I've always loved the show and this first novel captures the feel perfectly. There's a few chapters around the middle where it jusy feels like they've slapped the scripts in which gives it a lazy feel. But most of the book either features original material or takes scenes from the show and builds on them. The novel gives more depth to Lister's feelings of loneliness and Rimmer's near insanity. Very funny.

I was at a loss for this prompt until I remembered Kristine Kochanski's pinball #smile. “It wasn't a beautiful face. But it was a nice face. It wasn't a face that could launch a thousand ships. Maybe two ships and a small yacht. That was, until she smiled. When she smiled, her eyes lit up like a pinball machine when you win a bonus game. And she smiled a lot.” #QuotsyJan18

"He thought about the magnificently unlikely string of coincidences which had brought him into being. The Big Bang; the universe; life on Earth; mankind; the zillions-to-one chance of the particular egg and sperm combination which created him; it had all happened. And what had he done with this incredible good fortune? He'd treated Time like it was urine, and pissed it all away into a big empty pot."

"Was it just him? Was it some dreadful flaw in his personality that prevented him from having a successful relationship with his own self? Or would it be the same for most people?"

I found one! Finally. Here is an actual #inagalaxyfarfaraway for #maybookflowers : the first novel based on TV sitcom Red Dwarf. Dave Lister is the last human alive, stranded 3 million years from home with only a hologram, a creature evolved from cats and the ship's computer for company (And eventually a mechanoid too). The audiobook is read by cast member Chris Barrie, who is a great mimic and can (and does) do the rest of the cast brilliantly.

Lots of #artificialintelligence in the Red Dwarf tv series, the Talking Toaster being my favorite, so I'm assuming it's also in the books (which I should probably read someday, being a huge fan of the TV show) #aprilbookshowers

When I saw #CatsvsDogs was today's #OctPhotoChallenge, I immediately thought of Cat! He's as vain, shallow, self-absorbed, & unintentionally hilarious as a real cat & just as frustratingly lovable! I also remembered Jake, The Cat from Outer Space. I loved the movie as a kid! I haven't read it yet, but I hope it's fun. #catsftw

What a silly, over the top space adventure! Somehow I'd previously been under the impression that sci-fi was serious and full of technical science jargon I wouldn't understand (I'm going to blame my inability to grasp the stuff on all the various sci-fi I watched with my brother when j was little). But I'm so glad to be proven wrong. What a perfect compliment to my first few weeks of grad school! Big thanks to Liberty for the recommendation!