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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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  • 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 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

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  • I know where my towel is, babelfish is at the ready, and I threw out my book of Vogan poetry!!! This book is a must for anyone who like sci-fi and general sillyness!

    

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• ― GeekGirl said on May 14, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • it's been a long time since i have read this one. I don't remember even finishing it. But i did see the new-ish movie (with Mos Def) and i quite liked that! I think i may try the book again.

    

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• ― Beeridgett said on Mar 30, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Interesting ideas, sometimes hilarious, but often too silly for my tastes.

    

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• ― Leebeck said on Feb 28, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

"IRRESISTIBLE!"
--The Boston Globe
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.
Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!
"[A] WHIMSICAL ODYSSEY...Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy."
--Publishers Weekly


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