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Oct 12, 1979 · The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1), Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. The broad narrative of Hitchhiker follows the misadventures of the last surviving man, Arthur Dent, following the demolition of the planet Earth by a Vogon constructor fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
Sidenote: I would personally recommend sticking to the Adams five (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long and Thanks For All the Fish; Mostly Harmless) - there is a "spiritual sequel" by Eoin Colfer with the help of Adams' wife and his own notes.
Our review: Parents say (8 ): Kids say (42 ): Combining complex musings on life's purpose and society's structure, this witty, entertaining science fiction adventure is great for fans of snarky British humor. Parts of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will go over the heads of younger readers, but this pioneering classic is an introduction ...
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Poor Arthur Dent. His day, a Thursday, a day he could never get the hang of, didn’t start off well. He wakes up to bulldozers attempting to knock down his cottage to build a bypass road. He lies in the mud to stop it, not knowing that his house and indeed, the entire planet will be decimated before dinner time. And that’s the story. His friend, For...
I loved the silliness of it. I loved that everything had a meaning and yet nothing did. I loved the randomness and yet coincidence of it all. The characters were fun, silly, odd, and endearing. Earth is every bit as inconsequential in the galaxy as it appears to be on the those maps NASA puts out with a tiny teeny dot and an arrow pointing to Earth...
Real talk…for a moment. Arthur wasn’t given any time to process anything. He was supposedly brought along because Ford Prefect liked him and wanted to save him, but Ford abandoned him at every opportunity. But then, if you had a personality like Arthur, I might abandon you as well. Also, Arthur also kept reacting the same way over and over again, w...
I enjoyed and was irritated by this book, but not in equal measure. The whimsicality firmly in place, it almost reminded me of Carl Hiaasen’s books. But his books are based in Florida and while Florida is a lot like the galaxy in many ways, it’s not quite the same thing. Except for maybe Florida man.
He was, I suppose, a work friend. The first book I ever wrote that did anything was The Companion to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I got to work with Douglas on it. Douglas Adams was a genius. A lot of the pleasure in reading Douglas Adams is in jokes that are elegantly and delightfully tuned while also commenting on the human ...
Mar 8, 2021 · The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams’s gloriously funny, inventive and chaotic story about a human fleeing to space with an alien friend to avoid dying on Earth, has had as many reinventions and retellings as the Guide. Originally written as a BBC radio series, Adams then wrote it as a novel, a 1981 TV series, stage play and record, adding and removing details each time ...
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Oct 17, 2021 · And 42 is now the number of years since the publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the first in the series of wacky and beloved sci-fi books by Douglas Adams. The book follows ...
