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Summary: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxey
Review: Not long ago, I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and i. was pleasantly surprised about how much I enjoyed reading it. Everything from the writing to the concept it embodies had me positively spellbound. This book is about a dispossessed earth-man named Arthur Dent and the tremendous effect he is having on the universe. After narrowly escaping from the destruction of the Earth with his friend Ford Prefect whom he had believed to be from earth but turned out to be from a small planet somewhere in the area of Betelgeuse, they travel around the galaxy together meeting up with a large ensemble of friends along the way. The whole series of books follow Arthur Dent's journeys around the galaxy taking him to many mysterious places such as the ancient planet of Magrathea, and to a very strange planet named Brontital in a synthetic universe in one of the offices of the MegaDodo Publications (the home of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) on Alpha Centurai. And also to pre-historic earth to see the cavemen wiped out by a bunch of telephone sanitizes. The whole series is completely astounding and to think it all came out of the mind of Douglas Adams; the creator of the television show, the radio show and the author of all five novels. I would firmly advise this book to anyone who enjoys to read science fiction. Even if you do not ordinarily like sci-fi usually, there is a good chance you will enjoy this book.
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Summary: The Best Book Ever!!!
Review: This book is a lot more creative than the Harry Potter series. Out of all the books that I have read (i've read a lot) this is the best. It has everything. Humor and Action. Who needs drama! Who needs romance!When you have Douglas Adams. Now I am definitily going to read his other titles.
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Summary: "Drink up. The world's about to end."
Review: This is Ford Prefect's tmely advice for Arthur Dent minutes before the earth is obliterated by the Vogons. This is also one of the many witty and memorable quotes you will want to spew forth to your friends after reading the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Guide is a witty social satire that pokes fun at the things we earthlings take too seriously: the meaning of life, religion, work, and politics. The Guide entertained me with its humorous, gut wrenching absurdity while educating me with its witty dialogue and sardonic social satire. The election of the nihilistic puppethead president Zaphod Beeblebrox pokes fun at the very hypocrisy that is politics. A great, quick read that will leave an indelible impression - and leave your sides hurting from laughing so much.
"Does it really, cosmically speaking, matter if I don't get up and go to work?"
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Summary: the gateway to the trilogy
Review: This, the most famous book of the late Douglas Adams, is the first book in the five volume Hitchhiker's Trilogy. It is quite possibly among the funniest books ever written. Arthur Dent wakes up one morning to the sound of a bulldozer outside of his residence. His house is to be demolished to make way for a bypass. After a series of events he goes to a bar with his friend Ford Prefect--who reveals that he himself is not human. Ford tells Arthur that he is leaving Earth in order to escape its destruction (it is being destroyed in order to pave the way for an interstellar bypass). So begins the epic that is Adams' magnum opus. One reason I love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and the rest of the trilogy) is that it explores the theme of life as a journey towards hidden purposes. At the same time, it manages to show all the chaos along the way. It is within the pages that we first encounter the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything--namely 42. The search for the question to the answer is preoccupies much of the trilogy's later stories. After several readings of this first volume, the scene that sticks most in my mind is the internal conflicts that take place within the soul of the English bureaucrat (a direct male-line descendant of Ghengis Khan) sent to destroy Arthur's home. There are few scenes more hilarious in the rest of the series. I give the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy my full recommendation.
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Summary: Great Sci-Fi
Review: And a great comedy book. I can't stop smiling every time I recall some of the passages in the book. A masterpiece!
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Summary: The Funniest Book I've Read in a Long Time
Review: When Earth is about to be demolished to make way for an intergalatic highway, Ford Prefect, unlike the rest of Earth's clueless population, knows he has to get off the planet. Ford is not just any human you see, but an alien sent to Earth to research the planet for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide to more or less everything in the universe. Along with his poor bewildered earthling pal Authur Dent, Ford manages, but just barely, to get away from Earth right before it is destroyed. Now without a home planet, Authur, armed with nothing but Ford, a towel, and The Hitchhiker's Guide is off on a hilarious galactic adventure full of strange places and even stranger people including the three headed president of his girlfriend Trillian who Arthur once met at a cocktail party. This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. I began laughing on page one and never stopped until the end. And, best of all, there are four more hitchhiker books all just as hilarious and totally odd. This book is a must for all Monty Python or Blackadder fans, as well as fans of sci fi.
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Summary: The Funniest Sci-Fi book ever (That I've read)
Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is amazing. No other word can describe it. The events that ensue in the zany storyline should depress one if anything, considering it is the end of the Earth. Yet it is pulled off so remarkably it seems inspirational. The characters are so odd, yet so much like us (or at least me) in some way. Trust me, if you like some silly nonsensical (yet it makes great sense) humor, read this. If not, read it anyway. What am I to tell you what to do? Do whatever you want. PS-I also recommend the other novels in series.
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Summary: filled with meaning
Review: Listening to the audio CD's has an extra dimension to the book. You do get time to catch your breath. And my CD player is in the car. Somehow I survived. I would say that one great advantage to CD's is the ability to hear how the names are pronounced and you get inflections that intended or not help understand where they are going before they get there. An other advantage is that CD's like acid free paper should outlast the reader.
How many times have you asked a simple question and go the answer as "42." Yep, you are a victim to this book. Many of the clichés and truisms that rival Shakespeare are creeping into our vocabulary. And attitudes - "It has been on file."
If you are the one person that somehow got through life with out reading this series or at least seeing this on TV, then you are in for a treat. Somehow this story is earmarked as sci-fi and I guess it can be in a sense and it has all the elements necessary; it delivers a powerful message to the local Zoning Board.
I will not go though the story, as that is why you are reading the book. You need to sit down for the next sentence.
This book has changed my life.
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Summary: The Hitch-hikers(hard to understand at times)guide
Review: I have read all five of that trilogy. I have to say that the book was hard to understand in places but was very well thought of. It's too bad Douglas Adams has been taken from us but he left an interesting and funny series as far as The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. Now one question remains. Can anyone explain where "42" came from and not "28" or "17"?. Oh yeah,after I read it I lost it in storage. I guess I'm [between a rock and hard place] if the world ends...lol
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Summary: not that good
Review: i was deeply disappointed with this book, it does not live up to all the hype i have read and heard about this book for years. i found it silly and contrived. not at all thought provoking as it is suggested. don't buy much less read it.
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