The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide

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Summary: Hilarious
Review: Although i have never read "Mostly Harmless" i find that the rest of the series is fascinating and funny, planets that manufacture planets, the ruler of the universe living in a shack, and characters like Marvin the Paranoid Android make this one of my favorite books. And remember, the answer to life is 42

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Summary: Mind-boggling brilliant!!
Review: The Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy trilogy in five parts is as mind-boggingly funny and brilliant as space is big. And, as we all know, space is really big. I think that it's the best series ever written by anyone in the known universe. Thank you, D.A., for bringing Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, and especially Marvin the paranoid android, into my life. Dobbsy.

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Summary: Don't laugh so hard that you forget to think!!
Review: I love the Hitchhiker's series to no end, and when I found out I could get all five books in one volume and at THAT price, I nearly fainted, and when it arrived I ripped it open with fervor unlike any before even on the Christmas mornings of my childhood.
I can not recommend this volume enough to both those who read and fell in love with the books before and those who have never read it... here is the chance to read straight through and joyfully discover or RE-discover the giddy, hiliarious, thought-provoking brilliance of Douglas Adams at his best.
Whoever wrote that this was good entry-level SF for kids.. needs to read a little more closely. Adams is every bit the peer of Mark Twain as a satirist and his work here is, just like the latter's Huckleberry Finn, Conneticut Yankee, etc., vastly entertaining and often just downright side-splittingly funny adventure stories on the surface but below that ponderances on our modern society that would keep you up at night if not for the disarming charm and pure fun of their style. But while you're trying to avoid coughing up a lung from laughing so hard don't miss out on the stunning relation of Adams' wacky galaxy to our own world in which we allow our lives to be controlled by bureaucracy and our thinking to be done by the media.
I do have to say in particular about Mostly Harmless-- if you are a fan or become one after the first four, I would almost recommend not to read it, except I know that just like me you won't be able to stay away. It's not that it's a bad book... It's well-written and entertaining though rather average by Adams's usual exalted level-- but it gets bogged-down in all the multiple-timeline muck and also it does answer some questions but you may not want some questions answered.. that was part of the delight of the previous books, as they say themselves, "there is a theory that if anyone ever figures out what the universe is about.. it will be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable." Bizzare and inexpicable are what Adams does best. The book gives what I feel is a largely unneeded, even undesirable closure, and I closed the cover with a sense not of satisfaction but of sadness that the adventure was truly, very finally (if you do read you'll understand) over.
No doubt this book does require a certain quirky sense of humor to appreciate it... but give it a try, and if you're anything like me, you will want to give it not a 10 but a 42 if you could.

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Summary: A lot of fun
Review: I read this book when I was 10 years old and occasionally I will go back to get a little kick. Not too bad for an entry level book. Might be a good book to get for your kid if he or she is interested in SF

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Summary: If you haven't then you must!!
Review: One of the greatest books ever writen, keeps you thinking the wole time about you'r life for those of you who read Douglas Adams books befor and maybe even one of the hitchhikers trilogy reading it all together in one shot can really affect the way you think. befor buying this book make sure you have 1)time to spare and 2) a mind that can take being totally over welmd.
for those who haved yet to encounter the HitchHikers Guide go strait to this book to those of you who have well enough said you know what to do!!enjoy

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Summary: Totally unique, clever, and altogether hoopy.
Review: This series should be required reading for all sentient creatures. "No sir, your monkey is right!"

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Summary: The funniest science fiction books ever written.
Review: The Hitchhikers Guide series has to be the funniest science fiction series ever written. Wildly inventive. Monty Python meets Stephen Hawking. I'm always encountering situations that make me think of one of the segments in one of these books and trying to explain the particular concept to someone who hasn't read the books. The person I'm trying to explain it to invariably gets nervous and begins edging away from me while making reassuring noises. Illustrates the logical paradoxes that lurk below the surface of 20th century science in the same way that Alice in Wonderland illustrated the paradoxes in 19th century science. A classic

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Summary: The "triloggy" is funny. Very funny.
Review: Douglas Adams has to be credited as one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century. The characters, situations and storylines off all five of his books are both sardonically amusing and eerily real at the same time. Many readers are able to see the parallels between Adams universe and our world. All in all, this book is better than a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. And remember, "Don't Panic."

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Summary: Oh freddled gruntbuggely, I like this book
Review: "Hitchhikers" was recomended to me by someone from my class, I was a bit sceptic at first, but There was no reason, this is simply the best book I have ever read. I read the first four in Danish, then I bought all five in English, and they are even better. (tells more about Danish translators than the book). It simply scores fortytwo on the fortytwo-scale

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Summary: The Master story teller
Review: Sadly all thing must come to an end. And thats the way it looks for Ford and Arther. They left earth in the days when Radio 4 in England was still 'hip' and after what was only meant to be a short run of radio plays D.Adams had his work cut out to keep his charicters as busy as the fans demanded. This is the final tribute to his work. The collected stories are here for generations to come. Although they may think that the stories don't quite flow into each other, we don't hear this about Charles Dickins. (Who also wrote in segments). I will be buying many copies for friends and family in the years to come. I've never met anyone who hasn't liked his work.