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Summary: You will surely want to continue the whole trilogy.
Review: This book was everything I expected. I was really looking for a humorous sci-fi action packed trip and I was not disappointed at all. Reading this book was similar to the experience I got from the movie Men In Black. The Guide is similar in the way it depicts the univers as simply a zany place to be, full of action and swashbuckling adventure interspersed with a funny undertone. Ive read books before that followed this sort of humourous angle, but mostly turned out to be silly. The Hitchhiker's Guide may not have the most developed characters, but it has a unique charm that draws you into the action and keeps you there with a laugh and leaves you with a cliffhanger ending. The best time to read this book is right after you've just read something overly serious, epic, boring, or studious. Another book I would recommend that has this same similar sci-fi/humor relationship is a book by Piers Anthony called Prostho Plus. Pick up this book, but consider investing in the novel that encompasses all three books in the trilogy. Surely, if you only read this one, you will want more.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book I've read in a long time that I've really connected with. It is filled with humor (at least one joke in every paragraph) and a solid plot to accompany it. The characters are entirely different from each other, so everyone can relate to someone in the book. The dialogue between them is full of humor, especially in near-death situations when everyone talks nonchalantly about the end of their lives that is fast-coming. If you read this book, you're definitely going to be addicted and have to read the following installments of the series.
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Summary: The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Review: Sebastian EstenssoroMrs. Smith English I/ 3rd Hour February 22, 2004 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams uses Situational irony against a backdrop of science fiction to create a comic masterpiece. The main character in the book is Arthur Dent. He is miraculously rescued from Earth just moments before it is destroyed to make way for an interstellar bypass. He and his friend, Ford Prefect, a researcher for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who has been stranded on Earth for the past fifteen years, are rescued by the starship Heart of Gold. Their rescue was caused by the revolutionary propulsion system on the ship called the Infinite Improbability Drive, which makes the improbable probable. The occupants of the ship are Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Imperial Galactic, Trillian, a woman originally from Earth, and Marvin, an extremely intelligent and depressed robot. On his journey through space, Arthur discovers many amazing things, such as the answer to life, the universe, and everything is forty-two, and that the Earth was manufactured as a computer to discover what the actual question to the answer is. Douglas Adams' use of situational irony in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy makes the book a hilarious and entertaining read.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is completely full of situational irony that enhances the novel's over all effect on the reader. In the beginning of the book, a alien warship comes to destroy the planet Earth to make room for an interstellar bypass. Similarly, on Earth, the main character, Arthur Dent, has been trying for days to stop a wrecking crew from destroying his house to make room for a interstate highway. The alien ship says that a notice has been posted 300 light-years away at their home planet, and that the inhabitants of earth have had thirty years to see the notice. The alien invaders promptly destroy the earth seconds before it completes its function. To find the question to the ultimate answer, forty-two. Arthur and Ford are rescued by the heart of gold, a ship that has just been invented it is so advanced that it makes interstellar bypasses no longer need by the universe.
All these events are situational irony. The fact that the alien wrecking crew posted a notice 300 light-years away from earth and expected the humans to read it and lodge a complaint against the rest of the galaxy is very ironic. Also in this book, the earth is a giant supercomputer that has been working for billions of years to find the question to the ultimate answer. Five minutes before it has completed its task, it is destroyed by the alien demolition crew. Many other ironic situations exist in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, everything from extremely depressed robots, a universe contained in a piece of sponge cake, and how mice have secretly been controlling humans since the beginning of time.
It is because of all these ironic situations in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that make this a very entertaining book. Douglas Adams' use of situational irony definitely enhances the overall meaning of the book.
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Summary: GREAT Book
Review: This book is very funny and interesting. Earth is destroyed, and mice are actually OUR owners. Humans WERE the third most intelligent species on the planet, but the earth was actually a computer designed by mice to give the ultimate question, to which we know the answer- forty-two. Adams keeps you entertained and begging for more with his dry and witty humor. The insane improbabilites are only matched in this world by what will happen next in this entertaining book.
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Summary: A Speech Well Written. (hopefully)
Review: Suddenly a thousand gallon vat of custard upended itself upon them. This is just one of many unconceivable thoughts and events that occur during the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If improbable and uncanny is your type of book I have one right here that you will love.
As the first book in a series of unbelievable futuristic books, you are taken on a wild ride as the Earth is destroyed. Just don't forget your towel. As it is stated in the Universal Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, "There is a man who really has his towel." Because of this, a person is likely to give a hitchhiker anything you want or need. During this adventure Arthur Dent is an unexpected human who, by chance or luck, is saved just in the nick of time. During his adventures he is taken all over the galaxy and ends up on a planet unknown to everyone, on a ship that was stolen by the President of the Imperial Galactic Government. This man may be the most unintelligent being around. The planet Arthur Dent is on is the planet on which live the makers of extremely expensive private planets. The ending will blow you away.
I like the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because it is unpredictable. Just when you thought it was over something completely strange and unbelievable happens and changes the whole story. Douglas Adams is constantly throwing curveballs at me. Strange as this book is, it presents a lot of problems that a person faces in life.
If you like entertainment, this book is for you. The wild adventures and the inconceivable events continue to pile up, but don't stop there. As you read you begin to get a feeling of what Arthur Dent is going through. You become entangled with the characters and the plot. You are swept away with the mind-boggling chance occurrences that continue to pop up suddenly as though they were lurking in the dark waiting to pounce.
Douglas Adams
The erratic nature of this book, the immense entertainment value, and the qualifications of the author are my reasons for you to read this book. If that isn't enough, just think of the unbelievable quotes that you can rattle off while walking down the hall. If people didn't already think you were crazy they will now. So I leave you with a question to ponder; when faced with the dilemma of what to do when earth is destroyed, will you have your towel?
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Summary: The hitchhikers are the best
Review: The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is about a guy, Arthur Dent being plucked off Earth by his friend Ford Prefect. Together they encounter many improbable events and meet people like a depressed robot. This is one of the greatest books because it contains a lot of humor and it is a page-turner. The jokes are very humorous and make fun at things like poetry and pessimistic behavior. I like the humor even more because Douglas Adams puts it in when Ford and Arthur are in a perilous situation. Even if the humor were taken out, it would still be a good book. There is a lot of adventure that Ford and Arthur endure. All in all it is one of the books that I have actually liked. You will really like it if you read it.
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Summary: Review of the Hitchhiker's Guide
Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is the first in a five-book trilogy. (Yes, a five book trilogy.) In this book, an average Englishman named Arthur Dent learns of a plan to blow up the Earth to make way for an intergalactic bypass. His friend, who is from Betelgeuse Seven (and not Guildford as he claimed) helps him hitchhike off to the spaceships that destroy Earth. He then goes on a wild series of adventures, which are chronicled in this book.
I like this book because it has a very strange sense of humor, and yet it has its own logic, which can be understood if one tries hard enough. It also has a cast of unique and semi-realistic characters. I also like how Adams uses some very strange analogies, such as "he felt like a man getting mugged in a meadow." These analogies are not only comical and awkward; they also fit perfectly into the moment. They also perfectly convey the meanings. This book, in conclusion, is a very interesting read for anyone who likes anything related to hitchhiking, space, or any form of comedy whatsoever.
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Summary: Best book I've read
Review: The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams is a mix between adventure, comedy, and science fiction. Throughout this book, Adams makes fun of many things. This book is extremely funny but some parts are very confusing. "However it does go on to say that what with space being the mind-boggling size it is the chances of getting picked up by another ship within thoes thirty seconds are two to the power of two hundred seventy six thousands seven hundered and four aganist."(p.77) Even though parts of this book were confusing I did not mind rereading it until it made sense.
I loved this book and I think everyone in 9th grade or up should read this book. The main character,Arthur Dent , and his friend, Ford Perfect, meet a lot of people in space and even some old friends. This book does not have a single boring part. It will keep you excited and laughing frow the first sentence to the last. Everyone should read this book.
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Summary: Imaginative & Funny
Review: I decided that my mind needed a brake from any type of serious reading. Just say no to thought-provoking books, strangely yet deserving so, was my (er) thought. :) Well, did I ever pick the wrong book. Not only can this book be `laugh out loud` funny, but its thought-provoking scenarios and intelligent satire will not oblige you to feel the guilt of wasting time in a silly read. People that take themselves too seriously or do not appreciate extraterrestial satire may not enjoy it as much. So you may want to get THIS, which is the first part in the series. Personally, I am quite happy of getting the entire series harcover, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide <ISBN: 0517149257>. I am not a huge sci-fi fan, but in my opinion, it is probably a must for any fan of that genre with any sense of humor.
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Summary: TheHitchhiker'sGuideToTheGalaxy-MalavChakravorty
Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy is a great book, with the perfect balance of humor and conflict. Douglas Adams' random humor keeps the story interesting. The plot is confusing towards the end, but the book starts off interesting. This was my first science fiction book, and I enjoyed it very much. I would recommend this book to any science ficion lover that would enjoy reading a light book.
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