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Summary: "Drink up. The world's about to end."
Review: This is Ford Prefect's tmely advice for Arthur Dent minutes before the earth is obliterated by the Vogons. This is also one of the many witty and memorable quotes you will want to spew forth to your friends after reading the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.The Guide is a witty social satire that pokes fun at the things we earthlings take too seriously: the meaning of life, religion, work, and politics. The Guide entertained me with its humorous, gut wrenching absurdity while educating me with its witty dialogue and sardonic social satire. The election of the nihilistic puppethead president Zaphod Beeblebrox pokes fun at the very hypocrisy that is politics. A great, quick read that will leave an indelible impression - and leave your sides hurting from laughing so much.
"Does it really, cosmically speaking, matter if I don't get up and go to work?"
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Summary: the gateway to the trilogy
Review: This, the most famous book of the late Douglas Adams, is the first book in the five volume Hitchhiker's Trilogy. It is quite possibly among the funniest books ever written. Arthur Dent wakes up one morning to the sound of a bulldozer outside of his residence. His house is to be demolished to make way for a bypass. After a series of events he goes to a bar with his friend Ford Prefect--who reveals that he himself is not human. Ford tells Arthur that he is leaving Earth in order to escape its destruction (it is being destroyed in order to pave the way for an interstellar bypass). So begins the epic that is Adams' magnum opus. One reason I love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and the rest of the trilogy) is that it explores the theme of life as a journey towards hidden purposes. At the same time, it manages to show all the chaos along the way. It is within the pages that we first encounter the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything--namely 42. The search for the question to the answer is preoccupies much of the trilogy's later stories. After several readings of this first volume, the scene that sticks most in my mind is the internal conflicts that take place within the soul of the English bureaucrat (a direct male-line descendant of Ghengis Khan) sent to destroy Arthur's home. There are few scenes more hilarious in the rest of the series. I give the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy my full recommendation.
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Summary: Great Sci-Fi
Review: And a great comedy book. I can't stop smiling every time I recall some of the passages in the book. A masterpiece!
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Summary: The Funniest Sci-Fi book ever (That I've read)
Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is amazing. No other word can describe it. The events that ensue in the zany storyline should depress one if anything, considering it is the end of the Earth. Yet it is pulled off so remarkably it seems inspirational. The characters are so odd, yet so much like us (or at least me) in some way. Trust me, if you like some silly nonsensical (yet it makes great sense) humor, read this. If not, read it anyway. What am I to tell you what to do? Do whatever you want. PS-I also recommend the other novels in series.
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Summary: The Hitch-hikers(hard to understand at times)guide
Review: I have read all five of that trilogy. I have to say that the book was hard to understand in places but was very well thought of. It's too bad Douglas Adams has been taken from us but he left an interesting and funny series as far as The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. Now one question remains. Can anyone explain where "42" came from and not "28" or "17"?. Oh yeah,after I read it I lost it in storage. I guess I'm [between a rock and hard place] if the world ends...lol
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Summary: not that good
Review: i was deeply disappointed with this book, it does not live up to all the hype i have read and heard about this book for years. i found it silly and contrived. not at all thought provoking as it is suggested. don't buy much less read it.
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Summary: A wholly remarkable book
Review: I must say that Douglas Adams reminds me a lot of Mark Twain for his sharply satirical syle of writing. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is short and sweet and all readers will find it hard to put down. Sci-fi lovers, and even those who are not, will surely get a thrill out of reading this book! It is witty, off-beat and surprisingly easy to follow. Truly, the end of the world was never so funny.
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Summary: interesting
Review: this book had an odd form of humor, but it was enjoyable to read. it is a quick read, i read entirely on a short flight two summers ago.
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Summary: A Classic But...
Review: It is not my type.I enjoyed it, it is so funny and easy to read. But I was looking for more so it is not in my classic list.
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Summary: A book that makes you think about laughing
Review: When I was in high school, there were two types of people, the ones who were cool, and the ones who thought that the ones who were cool were were not that cool at all. I was caught in between. I, on the other hand, had first hand accounts of how the other one lived, died, and copulated with the other. It seemed as if I had an omnipotent position in the poitics of teen angst. Soon, I was to learn, that I myself was a pawn in the chess match we call puberty. In that confused state, I was introduced to the most informative, amusing, piece of literature, that any intelligent life form of any age could have been privy too stumble upon. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is the first and only reason I began to read. It was the first book that I became involved with, that I began to understand. Life, the universe and everything, meant more than words. Douglas Adams is a shaman, not in a religious manner, but in an intelligent, an understanding, and in the most human of emotions kind of way. Douglas Adams to me is a sort of father, in that he showed me the way to understanding, in a world that refuses to accept science and the understanding of truth. He to me is the messiah that so many ignorantly accept.
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