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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
This book is about a guy whos planet is destroyed[earth]and how he survives in space.this guy has a freind whos really a alien and him and his alein freind hich a ride. then they meet up with the aliens freind and travel the universe and have really funny adventures.My favriot part in this book was when the two smartest life forms[rats] create a super computer that can answer anything. They ask the computer 'what is the answer to life and everything'then the computer answers'i cant answer this question you must build a smarter computer then me''. The computer gives them the plans on how to build it. Finally after they built it they asked again what is the answer to life and the computer said it needed 200,000 years to think.Wow, now again the great great great great great grand children of those rats came and the computers answer was 42. Everyone was in awe and could not understand it. I was laughing for ever it was so random and funny.This book was very funny to me but it was hard to read, i pesonally loved this book at times and hated it at times. i would recomend this book to people who like nepolean dynamite or monty python. If you like random books that dont have to have a point and are funny then this is for you. But if your looking for more of a serious book with a theme and climax then i would not recomend this book. Also this book has some hard big words in it so i would not recomend it for people in elementry or middle school unless your a really accelerated reader. So like i said before it really depends on what kind of reader you are do you like books with lots of funny moments that make no sense at all. Or a book with a actual point to it if so you will hate this book it will make you bang your head against the wall trying to understand what just happened and why, every page you read.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
As the late writer Douglas Adams explains in the introduction "A Guide to the Guide" ("The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide" edition) "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has appeared in different forms and in different medias -- not two of them are alike. That is very interesting and one more proof of the author's apparently unstoppable creativity. You may not enjoy either his sense of humor, or his ideas, but you can't deny he is smart and creative.I approached "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is suspicion. I have never been very fond of science fiction -- and I never understood all those complicated physical and mathematical stuff--, I have always preferred something more intellectual. And I wasn't sure how comedy would work along with science fiction. To make matters worse, I've never got into books that are published in series, and become a fever, with people who can discuss them as if they were talking about the weather. "The Lord of the Rings" is a nightmare for me. So I decided to read Adam's first book and see what happens.Little did I know that I would fall for it before I reached page 20. In other words, before Earth is destructed. Although I can't recommend the whole series yet, I have to confess that I loved the first book and found it one of the funniest things I've ever read. And, it is not an easy job to make me laugh. Adams is witty and fast. So are his characters -- albeit a little crazy.My favorite character certainly is Marvin, the bipolar robot -- or paranoid android, pick one. He has some of the funniest lines in the novel. At some point, the reader may wonder whether he/she (the reader) is really crazy or Marvin is really involuntarily funny. I'd pick the second. My second favorite character is Ed, the hyperactive computer. These machines are dead funny.One can't expect realism in a science fiction comedy. Since "The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" is a fantasy, it is not a heresy to find a robot and a computer with more feelings that human beings or talking mice. This is supposed to entertain and, after all, this is food for thought, raising questions about what life is about, what is happening to the Earth and things like that. At some point, why not consider this novel sort of eco friendly?"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a sort of "2001: A Space Odyssey" written by "Alice in Wonderland"'s Lewis Carroll. Strange creatures act as if they were not strange; unusual situations are tackled as if they were usual; and a towel is the most important thing one must carry. What a (wonderful) world!I'll certainly read the following books in the series. I only hope they are as good, as funny, as witty and as fast as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". This light book is a good choice to read between to heavy and highbrow books. This is certainly one of the best treats readers any age can have.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
There are books that you should read, re-read, and re-re-read. This, unfortunately, turned out not to be one of those books, at least for me.When I first read this as a teenager, the whimsical English humor, sudden digressions, metafictional interruptions, and probing satirical questions kept me in stitches. This novel (such as it is), held together by a singular smart-assery, profoundly appealed to my own new found sense of adolescent rebellion. Coincidences, meaningful and otherwise, non sequiturs, and bureaucratic balderdash leavened the side-splitting dialogue and made it impossible to put down.Alas, upon re-reading the novel at the conclusion of 2006, I was struck by how much of the writing didn't strike me anymore. To say that the plot of the book is thin would be a compliment, and to call the characters, well, characters, would be a stretch. Most of the jokes just weren't as funny this time around, and the few that did crack me up were tinged with the bittersweet recognition that they would never be groundbreaking again.Because I read the 25th anniversary edition, perhaps it is fitting that it conjured up such mixed emotions. The author, Douglas Adams, had died three years before this edition was published, and so many of the extras in this volume involve tributes from luminaries like Terry Jones and Neil Gaiman. The introductory chapters are also chocked full of reproductions of flyers, book covers, and other such emphemera that will only be important to die-hard fans of the book, radio show, and/or movie.Remember, though, that this review is just my opinion. Whatever you do, Don't Panic.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It's not really my place to judge a classic that is older than I am, but I didn't find this all too exciting. The story itself was rather dry and predictable and so was the humor. If you like British humor, than this is definitely for you. I don't know, I guess I was expecting more realistic science fiction, in which case this book certainly doesn't deliver. In short, think Monty Python + Outer Space + A couple hits of Acid.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
42[okay, that's not a word, but you get my point]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It's Thursday. On this particular Thursday, Arther Dent (mild mannered ape-decended Earth-man) Awakes to find that his house will be knocked down. It is also on this Thusday that the Earth is destroyed. However, Arther is wisded off the planet, minutes before its descruction, by his friend Ford Prefect (alien form the vicinty of Betelgeuse, researcher for "the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and interstellar hitchhiker who has been streanded on EArht for 15 years posing as an out-of-work actor) Ford and Arther commence upon an array of outer-space adventures, and iprobably meet up with Zaphod Beeblebrox (two-headed, three-armed, ex-hippie, humanoin out-to-luch president of the galazy, woh has recently turned convict), Trillian (Zaphod's girlfriend, former Earth inhamitant Tricia McMillian, whom Arther coinciddentally tried to pick-up at a chktail party moments before she lift Earth), and Their robot Marvin (paranoid, depressed, and super-intellegent). Together they cavort jubilently through the galaxy. This book was really fun to read. You shouldn't mill it. Even if you don't enjoy science-fiction, you will enjoy Douglas Adams's whimsical writing style. Hw had a wonderful way of twisting words into capivating sentences that ticle your mind. What is the answer to life, the Uneverse, and Everything? What has been erased form Zaphod's brain? Where have all the lost ball-point-pens gine? Wh really created Earth and Why? Is everything in life merely a coincidence? Learn all theis and more by reading The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.