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Summary: The best five novels ever written!
Review: I loved this series and breezed through the entire thing in a few days. Currently my cousin is reading it and my brother couldn't wait for me to get it back. He just borrowed it from the local library. Still, even though I read it already, every time I see it lying on his desk, I pick it up and review a few chapters. This is the best, most hilarious collection of books ever written
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Summary: One of my lifetime faves
Review: Witty, cerebral, not for the dull-of-heart. My dog-eared "trilogy" has been with me since my 1986 buy in a London
bookstore when it distracted me from a boor of a boyfriend.
It is still distracting, endlessly amusing and never
condescending, but I'm going to buy the new one just to
read the 5th book! Python-esque...gives great jo
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Summary: Mix of Scott Adams, Shakespeare, and something VERY wierd.
Review: All of the books in this "trilogy" were incredibly funny, but also very deep. Reading this book, there were times when I almost literaly rolled on the floor laughing, and other times when something I'd read would be so heavy that I'd think about it for days.
I didn't read the books in order, (which only added to the wonderful confusion of the story line, and I would actually recommend doing the same) and I began my experience traveling the universe with these lines that I think summarise the mood and the story for the entire set of books.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizzarre and inexplicable.
There is another which states that this has already happened."
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Summary: Fascinating--immensly deep and refreshingly light
Review: The classic comment on this book is "Monty Python in Space".
This is just about on the mark. It can be silly or profound, depending on your mood at the time. I've never known anybody who didn't like it. Not recommended for those who hate having a good time. Otherwise, pick it up!
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Summary: Do you know where your towel is?
Review: This is absolutely THE book for you to read when you are planning to go on an intergalactic cruise, or when you want to get completely knocked down by the humoristic view on the galaxy that Douglas Noel Adams has written down in such a bizare and inexpliccable way.
The story is about an earthling, whose planet is being destroyed to make place for an interstellar bypass, and who is the only one who survived this accident. Read his story about his voyages along the dark planets of the galaxy, and learn more about the ravenous bugblatter beast of traal, who is so stupid that he thinks that if you can't see him, he therefore can't see you, and of the vogons, who write the third worse poetry ever, and about his strange companions: Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, Trillian, and Marvin the paranoid android.
And ofcourse you could learn more about the tripple-breasted whore of Erroticon Six!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I read the series as it came out. The "trilogy" that expanded into a "quintilogy"? Mostly harmless does eventually solve some of the questions that plague Adams readers and has a very fitting end to the entire endeavour. However if you still don't understand, I recommend you start over and read all of the books through from the beginning(if you have individual volumes) and then contemplate what is really happening. If you still don't understand then you aren'
t cut out for this kind of reading and should move on to more accepted satirical works such as: Taming of the Shrew!!!
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Summary: Witty satire...makes you laugh,cry,...grab a towel!!!
Review: Hitchhiker fans can breath a sigh of relief. This outstanding
five-volume trilogy is now available in one easy to carry volume!
Come join the adventures of our mishap-laden hero Arthur Dent
as his day starts from bad, his house is set to be demolished...and the notice
just arrived today; to worse, his planet is just about to be demolished...
Ford Prefect,Zaphod Beeblebrox,and sexy brainiac Trillian are
his companions on this jaunt from the restaurant at the end of the universe,
to the legendary planet of Magrathea, and beyond. This work is
full of British humor, twisted logic, and numerous references to Vogons,towels,
no tea, and the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy...a wonderfully useless piece of work that no hitchhiker would dare leave home without.
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Summary: A very good comedic(?) book for laughs-a-minute readers
Review: If you want a book with crazy characters, insane plot twists,
and plenty of comedy this is for you. The masterful way in
which Douglas Adams put this together makes you want him to write more books like this, only better. Starting out on planet earth, this book goes all over the galaxy trying to
keep things from getting too sane and normal
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Summary: A comic genius!
Review: Douglas Adams is possibly the funniest author I've read. His "Guide" is a wacky, crazy, hilarious tale of a totally clueless human's (Arthur Dent) travels in the big bad galaxy out there. Arthur, like millions of other humans, is totally ignorant about the Universe. Indeed, until the day the Earth is demolished (to make way for a hyperspace bypass!), he doesnt even know that his close friend Ford Prefect belongs to another planet - and is a researcher for the hugely successful book The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy. But Ford & Arthur escape from Earth, and set out on a journey of a lifetime, spanning 5 novels so far, where time and space are equally trivial barriers that can be crossed at a leap. Along the way, Arthur finds out a lot he didnt know, and lots more than he ever wanted to know, from hitching rides on passing space ships and teaching their computers to make tea, to the real history of his planet and the knowledge that his is the third most intelligent species on earth(and not, as was widely believed, the second) He also grapples with scientific concepts way beyond his grasp like the Infinite Improbability drive, Somebody Else's Problem field, discontinuities along the probability axis, not to mention the End of the Universe(the universe's most spectacular & profitable catering venture) Douglas Adams serves up one wacky idea after another, a universe wildly beyond our imagination, yet very familiar in its core values of crass commercialization and tasteless marketing hype. The reader is hurled through a series of increasingly improbable events, all held together by equally crazy characters and brilliant, witty(and ofcourse crazy) dialogs. So if I'm raving so much about the book, why do I give it only 4 stars? Because, like all artists, Adams has his highs & his lows, both of which are present in this collection. I would wholeheartedly recommend the first two novels - Hitchikers guide & Restaurant at the end of the universe. But coming after them, Life, the Universe & Everything is somewhat of a letdown, and So Long & Thanks for all the Fish even more so. Mostly Harmless is better, but still doesnt meet the standards set by the first two. All in all, this book is a collectors item for Adams fans - and I dont regret buying it. But for those just starting out on Adams, I'd recommend they try individual copies of the first two novels.
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Summary: Best book i have ever read
Review: The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy Wing Books, 1979, 143 pp.,
Douglas Adams ISBN 0-517-14925-7
The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is a book about a man named Arthur Dent; and his friend Ford Prefect. Ford Prefect is not from England as Arthur thought, but, he is really from a small planet some where in the vicinity of betelgeuse. He is also a stranded worker for the Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy. The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is an encyclopedia type book that tells you "everything you need to know about anything" among how to hitch a ride on a flying saucer, and how to survive in the universe on 30 Alrtairian dollars a day. It is also a slightly better selling book that the Encyclopedia Galactica. Their hilarious and exciting adventure together starts when the earth is destroyed by vogon ship, just after Ford and Arthur hitch a ride on the ship that destroys it.
This hilarious and exciting book is the first one in a series of 5 novels by Douglas Adams. The other four books are, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.
You will never read a more funny science fiction book anywhere. It will have you laughing so hard that it will put tears in your eyes. If you're looking for a quick but GREAT read this is the book for you.
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