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  • All of Douglas Adam's books! Awesome!

  • This huge book with all of Douglas Adam's stories was amazing- it was an absolute mind-job! The whole reason I read it was because I saw the movie, "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and there were so many jokes I missed (so says my now husband) that I had to read it to truly appreciate the movi ... Continue

    This huge book with all of Douglas Adam's stories was amazing- it was an absolute mind-job! The whole reason I read it was because I saw the movie, "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and there were so many jokes I missed (so says my now husband) that I had to read it to truly appreciate the movie.

    So, I read the book, and all I can say is "WOW"...it is an absolute mind-job; an adventure that could not possibly happen; must be from some mad-man's ramblings; OMG it's the funniest piece of literature and series of stories and random events that I've ever read! I'm still trying to figure out how someone could possibly imagine half of the content of these stories- but I loved every minute of it!

    

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  • You zarkin' frood! You've had that same old towel since you were 623 years old!

    

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• ― Bibliobum said on Jun 13, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • This book was completely different that I thought it would be, but not in a bad way. I love the sort of British humor that involves completely outlandish characters and plots and this book does a pretty good job of it. I highly recommend the audio version as well. Any book read in a British accen ... Continue

    This book was completely different that I thought it would be, but not in a bad way. I love the sort of British humor that involves completely outlandish characters and plots and this book does a pretty good job of it. I highly recommend the audio version as well. Any book read in a British accent is better.

    

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• ― Rice Cooker said on Sep 13, 2007 about the Audio CD edition| Add your feedback

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  • The Split Second of Hopelessness

  • While I adore this book to bits for its cleverness and humour, this is one part of the series that remains drilled permanently into my skull. Everyone knows about the whole "42" being the answer to the Ultimate Question, correct? Well, I can't help but to continue to dwell on the sudden intensified ... Continue

    While I adore this book to bits for its cleverness and humour, this is one part of the series that remains drilled permanently into my skull. Everyone knows about the whole "42" being the answer to the Ultimate Question, correct? Well, I can't help but to continue to dwell on the sudden intensified emotion of hopelessness when Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect where back on a more prehistoric Earth, and they found they discovered the lettered stones which, incidentally enough, spelled out "forty two". That's when the two of them thought if it could do this, than perhaps the Ultimate Question, too, could be generated, so Arthur Dent pulls the scrabble-like letter stones out of a bag randomly, and what ends up being spelled out is: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" ...then, after some silence, "Six by nine. Forty two. That's it. That's all there is."
    This...this sole event in the series that captured my attention has drawn me to these books more than ever. Clever, yes. Witty, yes. But there are definitely messages, both good and grave. Both illuminating- and chilling.

    

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• ― Ahl(t)erior Mohti(v)es said on May 8, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • good entertainment and that's it.

    

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• ― Marko 45142 said on Feb 24, 2009 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • i dont understand why this book appealed to techers, to the extent that they even allowed it to be used as the theme of the little t at some point. i can sense that the author is trying to be funny, but i just dont get the jokes.

    maybe i'll finish it someday when i have more patience to offer

    

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• ― Amusaur83 said on Jun 6, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

How shall we begin?

This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.

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This is the story of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with the words DON'T PANIC written on the front. (“A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.”)

In their travels they meet:
•Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch President of the Galaxy
•Trillian—Zaphod’s girl friend, formerly Tricia McMillan, whom Arthur once tried to pick up at a cocktail party
•Marvin—a paranoid android, a brilliant but chronically depressed robot
•Veet Voojagig—former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years

To find the answers to these burning questions: Why are we born? Why do we die? And why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches? read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But remember . . . don’t panic, and don’t forget to bring a towel.

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