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Summary: Good Book!
Review: I thought this book was really good. It was really funny and taught me things I thought I'de never know, like what kind of planets there are out there and how they make them. I also recomend this book to any one who wants to have a great time in a chair(recliner, stump, fish Ect.)!
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Summary: So many reviews mentioned it, but i can't help it...42!
Review: I got this book as a 13th birthday present, and I, to put it simply, LOVED IT! LOVE LOVE LOVE! LOVED IT! My first encounter with this book was picking up off of my cousin's floor. Yeah, it was a little weird to just pick a book up off of someones floor, but I couldn't help it! after that I wanted the book to death. then I got it, and LOVED it! It's GREAT! You REALLY SHOULD read it before you decide anything about it...READ IT!You'll LOVE IT too! (I know my over-use of 'LOVED' must sicken most of you...but I do, in fact, LOVE this book) I know full well that this reveiw will be of no help to anyone, but you should read it, and you WILL love it...That is all.
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Summary: Great Book, Great Conversation Piece
Review: Not only is this a great book, but also a great topic of discussion. It's amazing how many times you can get into an hour long in depth conversation just by saying "42" when someone says "Can I ask you a question?".Although the story starts to get a little distracting and off the wall (even compared to the first book of the series), it is still full of great theories and topics of discussion that can give life to an otherwise dull evening.
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Summary: Well
Review: You can't help but wonder if Douglas Adams tried to drive
from New York to California and inexplicably visited the
Temple in Jerusulem and camped on Mars en-route. -42
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Summary: wonderful series, lousy book
Review: Extremely humorous, if episodic, in the wry Britcom sci-fi vein -- similar in many ways to Dr. Who or Red Dwarf (without the quest motif). But the construction of the book is terrible, too thick and heavy, hard to hold open, with impossibly thin pages. These aren't supposed to be texts for quiet meditation -- they're to read on the subway. Buy them separately!
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Summary: What a Hoopy Idea
Review: Douglas Adams is one funny guy. Having read each of the books individually what a terrific idea to compile them all in one volume. The humour is dry and zany, following the adventures of Arthur Dent and friends. The action starts with Arthur's house being destroyed, and the entire earth shortly thereafter. In reading this series you'll learn a lot about why towels are entirely useful, the significance of the number 42, and lots more. Mr. Adams always leaves me laughing and I'm very happy he managed to write these books before his passing. If you love sci-fi and a good laugh, you will LOVE this series. Conveniently compiled in this terrific edition.
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Summary: An entirely contradictory and absurd review
Review: To put it in a nutshell, this book is a parody of just about everything. Science fiction, sports, philosophy, religion, technology, the human race in general, stereotypes, rock bands, presidents, are but a few of the many items this set of books makes fun of, and even if you like most of the above list of things, it'll still strike you as hysterically funny. The first three books are the only ones that you might actually follow without too many contradictions. By the last two, however, you've got major contradictions, crazy scenes, and a craving for herring sandwiches (read the book). As for variety, the same crew of Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, Trillian, and several other sub characters gets a little thin, but with characters like Ford and Zaphod, you can never really expect anything to happen. (Except for Ford jumping out of office buildings, of course.) I highly recommend these books to anyone who enjoys science fiction or who likes/dislikes any of the topics I introduced in the beginning. This is a guaranteed way to get many laughs and quotes that can last a lifetime. Four words: Don't Panic, and READ IT!
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Summary: wonderful
Review: This book is so great, that to describe how great it is one can only repeat the word great until it loses all meaning.
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Summary: ZARKS
Review: This is the best book I have ever read. I found my self bursting into laughter whilst reading this book in studyhall, that gets some wierd looks. Adams' writing style is different to say the least. I ,personaly, am a compulsive reader and could not put this book down I stoped eating talking and belaying. The book is that amazing. I just kept reading. If you know a geek or are a geek buy this book its invaluble and you will be lost in many a jokes if you dont read it. WARNING: DO NOT BEGIN TO READ THIS BOOK IF YOU HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO!
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Summary: They don't write them like this anymore
Review: The plot of these books is almost irrelevant. In fact, in an interview with Douglas Adams he freely admits that by the third book he had contradicted himself so many times it wasn't worth trying to unravel things anymore. This space odyssey begins with Arthur Dent coming home to find out that his house is being destroyed to make way for an new interstate highway. When he claims that he had no knowledge of this fact, the surly foreman informs him that all he had to do was to look up the cities building plans at city hall, they were always available to him if he had had the wherewithal to look for them. Dent barely has time to start complaining before his friend, Ford Prefect, comes along and tells him not to worry about his house, something much bigger is about to happen. Sure enough a fleet of spaceships arrives in Earth's atmosphere and informs earth that it is to be destroyed. "Why?" Millions of Earthlings ask. "To make way for an intergalactic superhighway," the aliens respond. "The plans have been available to you for years now. All you had to do was go look at them." And so begins the funniest space journey ever told as Adams creates ironic scene after sarcastic scene after ludicrous scene after hilarious scene after scene after scene. The first book deals with the meaning of life (what else?) and the subsequent books deal with various gadgets that will destroy the universe and the origin of man, along with a computer that solves problems so complex that only the math used to figure out the bill at an Italian restaurant will suffice. The characters, settings, concepts and everything else in these books are the funniest stuff you will come across in the English language. I can not leave off this review without at least quoting some of Adams gems. Forgive my paraphrasing. "The spaceships hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't." "The fact that the phrase, 'As pretty as an airport' does not exist in any language is no coincidence." "There is a theory that once the meaning of life has been discovered, the entire universe will cease to exist and will be replace by something even more ludicrous. There is another theory that states that this has already happened."
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