The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Summary: A Decent Read...
Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a funny book, but plan on reading the rest of the so called "trilogy" to get any real entertainment. There's just not enough in one book to make it satisfying.

After reading Hitchhiker, I was left wanting more. Not because its a bad book, quite the contrary. Its just that it is so...short. This is not a book that was first written to stand alone so you need to be sure to have all the sequels on hand when you start as it is a short read as well.

Overall, people who enjoy Monty-Python type hi-jinks will enjoy this. People who do not like slapstick-type comedy, will not.

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Summary: Towels, Mice, and Spaceships
Review: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy,' by Douglas Adams, is a spontaneous comic adventure. To bring out the humorous characters and events, Douglas Adams uses a lot of satire to attract the reader's attention. A scene that brings out much of the satire is at the beginning of the book. Arthur Ford lies in front of bulldozer to stop the demolition of his house so the city can build a bypass. Arthur, having just found out the day before, is annoyed because the plans were buried from the public. To emphasize the satire, Adams destroys Earth to build an intergalactic bypass whose plans were also buried. This is all going on while the construction workers are trying to find a way to get more money out of their union for working with insane people. Adam uses this satire throughout the entire book to give it an added flavor and to persuade changes on earth with certain situations. As Arthur and Ford start hitchhiking their way around the galaxy to find the ultimate answers to life and the universe, they encounter worlds full of trouble.

The story starts out with Arthur Dent protesting his house from being torn down for a bypass, when his friend Ford Perfect, an alien who has been posing as an out-of-work actor on earth for the past fifteen years, drags Arthur away to tell him the world is going to be destroyed. He warns his disbelieving friend Arthur that the planet is soon to blow up, and rescues both of them seconds before its destruction by hitching a ride from the Vogons. After Ford and Arthur are tortured by hideous poetry, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the president of the galaxy, and Trillia, the only other surviving human being, save them. Together they travel the galaxy to lead to the ultimate answers to life.

I would say this book is Random. Sinister. Funny. 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' covers everything from galactic space monsters to far-off planets no one has ever of. This completely random book has the reader on his toes from the very first page to the last. Totally unpredictable. If you want a joyful, whimsical ride through space, then read 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Summary: Very smart mice.
Review: The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy is the funniest science fiction brief novel I've ever read. Dialogs are funny, descriptions are comic and the argument is hilarius. Most of all, this is a smart novel where the casuality is masterly managed. Actually, nothing that happens in the novel is casual but just very, very improbable. These very improbable events produce a world where, for example, humans are only part of a ten million years long experiment done by the most intelligent species in the universe: mice, of course.
I'm looking forward to read the other two parts of the "incresingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy".

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Summary: The Hitchhikker's Guide to the Galaxy--Huh?
Review: This is by far the funniest book ever written. Between the action, the characters, and the dialogue, there is hardly a paragraph that dosen't get a laugh. With Ford Prefect (ha) and Arthur Dent in the main spots, a romp across the galaxy is a great form of entertainment. I don't want to give away too much of the rudimentary plot, seeing as there's not that much to give away in the first place, so I'll end the review here.

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Summary: The Best Book for lost Hitchhikers In The Galaxy: by Will C.
Review: This book is very well written. It includes action, mystery, and most of all, science fiction. Douglas Adams is a genius in the writing world. This book has astounded me and has tingled my intrest in science fiction novels. Adams has created a masterpiece, something that I would read over, and over again to myself and my children. It would intrest anyone. From grades four(kind of hard for them) to eigth. Anyone who has any kind of an intrest in science fiction, fantasy, or just regular fiction, would be very interested. It is short but sweet, it ends very quickly, but covers a giant time period. In such a short time, Adams has created one of the greatest books I have ever read. My favorite character s an alien from the Beltigeuse Galaxy, who had done a report on Earth. But as time went by, he got stranded on Earth. His Earthian name was Ford Prefect, and he plays a stupid alien( at times), and also a genius to the alien Galaxy. Aurter Dent is the main character, and he goes through a lot of difficulties in the giant Universe. This is one of the greatest books I have ever read, and if you like this book, you should read the whole trilogy by Douglas Adams.

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Summary: A very well written adaptation of the novel.
Review: John Carnell did a wonderful adaptation of Douglas Adams' novel by the same name. I enjoyed this version of H2G2 allot, and think that this version of the story stays very true to the original novel. The story keeps the original theme and fun of the story, while compacting it down to a graphic novel that can be read in a few hours.

If after reading this you find that you liked the story you would probably find the original novel and the follow up books even more entertaining and humorous and probably should read them.

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Summary: have the rest - get this one
Review: I love hitchikers! This just adds to the collection of wacky humor. if you have read the rest, read this one now.

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Summary: Crazy and Wonderful!
Review: If you like science fiction-or even if you don't-you have to read this book. It is hilarious right from the first chapter. I was never really into the whole Aliens-are-taking-over-the-planet thing until I read this. I got all six stories in one album (The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and tried to read all six books at my average rate, about two weeks for all six. Big mistake. But if you go slowly enough to enjoy it, it is one of the best books ever written!

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Summary: Just A must!!!
Review: I did not read all of the hundreds of reviews of this book here at amazon.com, but if you read mine, I just can tell you, if you are into SciFi or even if you are not, this book is a must have.
Its just "mind-boggling". A SciFi-Satire-Bible. Not made for this earth (how wonders, it starts with the destrucion of it hehe). If you are a shrink and interested in androids minds, a water bag who is asking himself, what the purpose of all THIS is or just a regular guy who does not want to see his house demolished... This book will have the answers for you.

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Summary: a Classic!
Review: wether you like science fiction or not - this book is one of the funniest ever written !