Rating: Summary: I have a question for anyone who might be able to help me... Review: I recently purchased this book and read it.. I think it is a great book all around. It's funny, entertaining.. Also has a little bit of action. I was also assigned for school to write an explanation on how the conclusion of novel leads up to the last sentance. And also if the sentence is appropriate as "the last sentence" of your book? Why or why not? I am kinda having some difficulty on this one question and I need to get it done it is worth 20 points of my project and I would really appreciate it if someone is kind enough to help me out. Thank you
Rating: Summary: HULARIOUS Review: This is the funniest book i've ever read in my life!! If someone doesn't laugh out loud while reading this, then there's something seriously wrong with them! Some of the phrases Douglas Adams uses are simply ingenious! If you like to laugh, READ IT! There are some really interesting philosophies about the world too! some phrases that i love from this book are: "they flew in much the same way that bricks don't" or "you seem to have fallen down a 30-foot cliff, are you alright?" it is just hularious!
Rating: Summary: Interesting Review: I've never read a book quite like this one. Douglas Adams is a very creative and original writer whose ideas cause you to think about the universe in a new way. I didn't give this novel five stars because it finishes too abruptly and some of the humour is a little hard to understand at first. All in all a really fun read.
Rating: Summary: Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy Review: I really did not not the book Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy. I was a book that did not interest me. Alot of the book made no sense to me. I really did not care about the Greatest computer or the time it toke them to get a stupid answer. I just really want to know what happens and how does it happen. The only reason why i gave it 2 stars is because it was a little funny but overall it is a bad book and i will not recommand it to anyone.
Rating: Summary: A very VERY funny book Review: How can anyone NOT read Douglas Adams and like it? Let me rephrase that. How can anyone NOT read Douglas Adams? The man is the master, and I mean the MASTER of science fiction/comedy literature at it's best. The book, for those of you who desperately need to read this, follows the story of Arthur Dent, a human who, luckily, just barely escapes the destruction of the world. He is saved by his friend Ford Prefect, an alien who has been stranded on earth for 15 years while trying to write an update to the now outdated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What follows is a series of exciting, cleverly written, and of course funny adventures. Everyone should read this book. So what are you waiting for? Read it! NOW!
Rating: Summary: Sorry to all the fans out there... Review: I do not understand why people love this book. Or why they think it's funny. It's just so boring. There's no plot, there's no character development, and the characters are one-dimensional anyway.The entire story can be summed up in one sentence: The Earth is destroyed, and Arthur is saved by Ford Prefect, who is an alien researching Earth. Woo, what an exciting plot. Honestly, I'd rather be on the Earth when it was destroyed than go on this boring adventure. However, it's obviously a cult classic, and I guess it's just one of those books that everyone must read at least once in their lifetime. And finally I've been able to understand a lot of sayings and jokes that I've been hearing for all these years and not knowing where they came from. :)
Rating: Summary: Hilarity Ensues Review: With an original sense of humor that echoes of the best of Monty Python, Douglas Adams has successfully crafted a series bound to be remembered as a twentieth-century classic (and brings new meaning to classic literature at the same time). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy boasts original characters (as well as original physiology), original ideas, plot twists, and fresh humor. Few science fiction novels can joke about themselves as this one does, and even fewer can do it so successfully. This book is recommendable to seasoned sci-fi readers and novices alike - as long as you can stomach the taste of humor that bombards this text, it will quickly become one of your favorites.
Rating: Summary: A Sci-Fi Story You'll Never Forget Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a humorous, delightful, and just plain fun adventure/science fiction tale. Arthur Dent, the main character, discovers his house is to be destroyed to form a highway, because the drivers of several bulldozers angrily wait outside his home for him to move. Ford Prefect, an alien abandoned on Earth for fifteen years, posing as an out-of-work actor, informs Arthur that the Earth, too, is going to be destroyed by an enemy Vogon ship creating a highway through the galaxy. When the Vogons arrive in their high-tech space ships, Ford and Arthur hitch a ride on the ship, and their intergalatic adventures begin! How would you feel landing on a planet where the people are in hybrination, meeting a man named Slatibartfast, and learning the answer to the Ultimate Question? You can experience this and much more by reading Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Happy Reading!
Rating: Summary: hilarious Review: Douglass Adams was hilarious. Hitchhiker's guide is a classic for good reason: it's a work of genius.
Rating: Summary: Gimme a Double Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster Review: Have you ever used a pancake flipper to turn a time axis over? By the time this little story is over, Arthur Dent, the protagonist, has probably not only flipped a time axis over, but has probably done so exactly at the moment the thing had the right number of pock marks/wormholes. This is the story of how an Anyman from England goes on a fantastic intergalatic voyage after bureaucratic, fascist-oid aliens commit wholesale planetcide against the Earth in the name of Progress, demolishing it to construct a hyperspace bypass moments before the Earth, one big organic computer, is to render the 10-million year Question. (Kinda makes Arthur's house demolition for similiar reasons at the beginning of the story look like wormmeal by comparison). By confronting robots and computers that should ge given frontal-circuit lobotomies, greedy mice that saw their 10-million year investment sour before it went boxoffice, and various and sundry "whoops" incidents in outerspace, Arthur becomes a Space Novitiate, ready for more space adventures in sequel books, and ready to turn that time axis over with a swift flick of his wrist, as soon as the stuff stops jiggling. Don't pass this book by if you think it is too Trekkie or Sci-Fi-ish from the title, especially if you do happen to like absurd/obscure British humor like Monty Python. As a matter of fact, I even found a refrence in the book to "an elderberry bush full of kippers" which vaguely reminded me of some M.P. skit about herrings and shrubberies.
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