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Summary: A hilarious and insane book!
Review: I really, really love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was sitting here reading the reviews and I decided to write my own review of the book. I think people who said it was too confusing had good reasons for saying it, but I think the confusion is the whole point of the book. Life is confusing, and this book is just a twisted version of life. I think people who said it was "juvenile" didn't really get the book. The point is that the whole world is "juvenile" and insane. Adults in the world don't always behave like sophisticated mature people, some of them behave like little kids or just generally act like idiots. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is just a version of the way Douglas Adams sees the world- an insane, messed up place where you never know what will happen next.I'm not saying The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is deep reading, but people don't need to read deep, thought-provoking books ALL the time. Last year I went on a seven-week trip and The Hitchhiker's "Trilogy" (all five of them) were the only books I brought that weren't "deep". I don't know why I said that. I can't really judge how good it is as a sci-fi book. It probably isn't the best, but I've hardly read any other sci-fi books so I can't really tell. Will you please recommend some to me if anyone is bored enough to read my review? Thanks!
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Summary: coolest book on earth!!!!!!!
Review: something is seriousley wrong in adams head.and i love every part of it!!!!!!!!! best book ever!!!!
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Summary: The funniest book I've ever read.
Review: I first picked this book up in an English class. We wern't doing anything, and the teacher had brought in a box of books to keep the peace. I had seen the books before but wasn't really interested (I had thought they were astronomy books), but the back caught me (what's with the towel?) so I decided ; what the hey, at least I'll know what that towel comment was about. I started laughing on the first sentence and didn't stop till I'd finished the book. I don't mean that I thought it was funney and snickered to myself, I mean that I laughed out loud the whole time (well until I lost my voice). I recomend this book to anyone. Period. It is by far the funniest thing I've ever read.
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Summary: This is the best book Adams has ever wrote.
Review: This is a fun-filled adventure with fun and interesting characters. They all have distinct personalities and an almost believable plot. Adams has a style that is quite uncommon, but very entertaining. If you like this one, you have to read the four others in the trilogy.
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Summary: The funniest book I ever read
Review: I am from california and I hate reading and books and this is the only book I liked reading.
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Summary: A very funny book!
Review: This is the best humor/sci-fi book I have ever read. Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are the greatest duo there ever was and ever will be! You must read this book.
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Summary: Ok....
Review: I hate to be the one to knock this book, but I just don't understand what is so wonderful about it. Of course there were a few very funny parts, but they weren't, in my opinion, worth the time of reading the entire book. I felt that this book attempted to be witty, but really wasn't. The writing style of Douglas Adams I found to be quite mediocre. I didn't think he was bad, but not impressive either. You'll probably enjoy this book, but I guess I didn't. It wasn't a worthless book, but I don't have an urge to pursue the sequels. My advice: Read Kurt Vonnegut for some first-class satire with a message.
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Summary: Humorous science fiction
Review: This is the first in a series of humorous science fiction novels that had their origin in a BBC radio series, first airing on March 8, 1978. This first story by Adams was also made into a short television series. The stories are centered about an alien named Ford Prefect, who has been spending some time on Earth serving as a roving researcher for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," and his human friend Arthur Dent, a common English "everyman" who is constantly searching for a drinkable cup of tea. At the start of the first novel, Dent wakes up in the morning to discover that his house is being destroyed to make way for a bypass. Ford Prefect arrives to tell Dent that Earth itself is about to be demolished in order to make way for an interstellar bypass by the Vogons. Just prior to Earth's destruction, the two stow away on a Vogon ship. The two survivors are thrown out of the ship but soon meet the egocentric Zaphod Beeblebox, Ford's cousin and President of the Galaxy ("President in particular is very much a figurehead-he wields no power whatsoever"), who has a surgically-added extra arm and extra head. With Zaphod is the girl Trillian (Tricia McMillan) who had been picked up at a party on Earth by Zaphod. They are traveling in a prototype space ship, "The Heart of Gold," stolen by Zaphod. The ship is powered by an Infinite Improbability Drive, which can be used as a method for crossing vast interstellar distances in a "mere nothing of a second" by generating small amounts of finite improbability. The development of an "infinite improbability generator" was made possible by calculating exactly how improbable such a generator was and creating this finite improbability. Another character in these books is Marvin, a manicly depressed android with a powerful brain. This unusual group of characters travel to the planet Magrathea which specializes in custom-made luxury planet building. However, two nuclear missiles are fired at them. Fortunately, Dent accidentally triggers the infinite improbability drive which turns the missiles into a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale. They discover, from the character Slartibartfast, that Earth had actually been designed by the Magratheans as a gigantic computer whose job it was to find "The Question." Another computer, "Deep Thought," had earlier calculated the answer to life, the Universe, and everything: the answer was "42." But, no one knew the question. Unfortunately, the Earth had been destroyed five minutes before the completion of its analysis by the Vogons. This book is thoroughly enjoyable and I recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: I'd actually rate this a ten-star! Outstanding book!
Review: No, fifteen stars, and an aditional two-thumbs-up for extra humor. The other ones by Douglas Adams are great too, just not quite as funny. My E-mail is Soap90@aol.com, I want your opinion!
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Summary: I've only read three chapters and I'm hooked.
Review: I'm only on the third chapter of the first book in the series, yet I would consider this to be the best read I've ever had.
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