The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was written by the late, great Douglas Adams, who passed away recently. As it currently stands, there are 5 volumes (‘A trilogy in five parts’). These books are
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takes to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything),The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyhas finally been turned into a movie. Following the radio play, TV series, commemorative towel, and books, this latest installment in the sci-fi-comedy franchise is based on the screenplay and detailed notes by Douglas Adams. For those unfamiliar with the story, everyman Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) wakes up one morning to discover that his house is set to be demolished to make room for a bypass. Little does he know the entire planet Earth is also set to be destroyed for an interplanetary bypass by the Vogons, a hideous and bureaucratic race of aliens realized in the film by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Whisked off the planet by his best friend, alien-in-disguise Ford Prefect (Mos Def), Dent embarks on a goofy jaunt across the galaxy accompanied by his trusty Hitchhiker's Guide, which looks like a really fancy PDA. The guide itself provides some of the funniest bits of the movie, little animated shorts that explain the ludicrous life forms and extraterrestrial phenomena our heroes encounter. Along the way Arthur meets the two-headed party animal/president of the galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell) and develops an unrequited crush on fellow earthling Trillian (Zooey Deschanel). The creatures and sets are inspired and answer to the sci-fi fan's primal need to see lots and lots of cool stuff. Where the story stumbles is in the telling--as books, the Hitchhiker's Guide was foremost about goofy and brilliant ideas that raised questions about our place in the universe while getting a laugh. The movie has enough trouble figuring out how to get the characters from one fantastical location to the next that Adams's funniest concepts often feel left in the dust. While the reverence the filmmakers felt toward Adams's legacy is apparent, one wonders what we could have expected had the creator of this science fiction universe lived to see it with his own eyes.--Ryan Boudinot, Amazon.com
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Don't panic! After twenty years stuck in development (a mere blink compared to how long it ... more
takes to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything),The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyhas finally been turned into a movie. Following the radio play, TV series, commemorative towel, and books, this latest installment in the sci-fi-comedy franchise is based on the screenplay and detailed notes by Douglas Adams. For those unfamiliar with the story, everyman Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) wakes up one morning to discover that his house is set to be demolished to make room for a bypass. Little does he know the entire planet Earth is also set to be destroyed for an interplanetary bypass by the Vogons, a hideous and bureaucratic race of aliens realized in the film by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Whisked off the planet by his best friend, alien-in-disguise Ford Prefect (Mos Def), Dent embarks on a goofy jaunt across the galaxy accompanied by his trusty Hitchhiker's Guide, which looks like a really fancy PDA. The guide itself provides some of the funniest bits of the movie, little animated shorts that explain the ludicrous life forms and extraterrestrial phenomena our heroes encounter. Along the way Arthur meets the two-headed party animal/president of the galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell) and develops an unrequited crush on fellow earthling Trillian (Zooey Deschanel). The creatures and sets are inspired and answer to the sci-fi fan's primal need to see lots and lots of cool stuff. Where the story stumbles is in the telling--as books, the Hitchhiker's Guide was foremost about goofy and brilliant ideas that raised questions about our place in the universe while getting a laugh. The movie has enough trouble figuring out how to get the characters from one fantastical location to the next that Adams's funniest concepts often feel left in the dust. While the reverence the filmmakers felt toward Adams's legacy is apparent, one wonders what we could have expected had the creator of this science fiction universe lived to see it with his own eyes.--Ryan Boudinot, Amazon.com
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great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus better selling than Fifty Three Things to Do in Zero Gravity and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters - Where God Went Wrong Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway? So that whingeing Earthling Arthur Dent should be very grateful he had a copy! For after Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass Arthur Dent is let loose in the furthest recesses of the Galaxy armed only with the aforementioned mysterious but indispensable Guide. Follow Dent's cosmic adventures as he is joined by his pretty weird companions: Zaphod Beeblebrox Ford Prefect Trillian-the-Astrophysicist-he-met-at-a-party-in-I slington and Marvin the manically depressed Android. You never know they may even find the answer to Life The Universe and Everything!
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third book in Douglas Adams's "Trilogy in Four Parts",Life, the Universe and Everything. We rejoin Arthur Dent--after his anticlimactic revelation of the meaning of life and his unceremonious return to earth--to find him living in a hideously miserable cave in prehistory. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.Many of the castof the original BBC Radio 4 series have been reunited for superb sequel, which features 20 minutes of material not heard in the broadcast version. The sound is crystal clear and the running time is a massively entertaining 3 hours and 10 minutes. Among the returning cast are Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox and Stephen Moore as Marvin the Paranoid Android. And even the delightful Joanna Lumley pops up unexpectedly.--Paul Eisinger
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Zaphod Beeblebrox is one hell of a guy. With three arms and two heads, he is the only ... more
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One of the BEST and FUNNIEST books ever
Advantages: Amazing logic, makes you laugh like you've never laughed before, the best ending ever Disadvantages: It's long, but that shouldn't bother you - 100 pages and you're hooked and begging for more.
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was written by the late, great Douglas Adams, who passed away recently. As it currently stands, there are 5 volumes (‘A trilogy in five parts’). These books are
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,
Life, the Universe and Everything,
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and
Mostly Harmless
Each is a compelling ... ...few authors that REALLY makes you laugh. The level of humour and wit is only matched by the amazing interaction between the volumes and the sheer logic that lies behind Adams’ ideas.
I’m going to attempt to wrap up the introduction with out giving things away. The book begins with our hero – Arthur Dent, a typical middle-aged man living in a depressed environment. We meet him standing in front of his house trying to stop his house ... more
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was written by the late, great Douglas Adams, who passed away recently. As it currently stands, there are 5 volumes (‘A trilogy in five parts’). These books are
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless
Each is a compelling and original outlook on life. Adams is one of the few authors that REALLY makes you laugh. The level of humour and wit is only matched by the amazing interaction between the volumes and the sheer logic that lies behind Adams’ ideas.
I’m going to attempt to wrap up the introduction with out giving things away. The book begins with our hero – Arthur Dent, a typical middle-aged man living in a depressed environment. We meet him standing in front of his house trying to stop his house being bulldozed to make room for a new highway. Eventually, his friend, Ford Prefect emerges, and battles his wit against the bulldozer man to let them leave for a while. Unknown to Arthur, Ford Prefect is actually an Alien from a planet far away and is simply on Earth to do research for ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ (he picked his name upon arriving on the planet after having mistaken the intelligent life form for being cars – thereby having a perfectly normal name). As it Ford reveals to Arthur, the Earth apparently only has about 5 minutes before it too is destroyed - ironically, so that a super hyperspace-way can be built. So Arthur and Dent leave Earth and travel for five books in the galaxy.
I’m not going to give away any more of the story as it is extremely surprising, and would be unfair. I would however have to say that this book has the best ending ever written. Although it took me several reads to fully understand it, the ending is an extraordinary climax and finishes the book well.
There are so many characters in the book that it's not worth me writing them here. They leave and return to the story often and it is sometimes hard to keep track of them. I can assure you however, that each character is amazingly unique and you'll fall in love with them all.
I currently own the 775 page hardback copy, which costs just £15, not much compared to other hardbacks. It is available in any half-decent bookstore, and an absolute classic. Even if you don’t like the general Sci-Fi theme (I hate it personally), you will still LOVE this book. You may decide to read it twice to fully absorb the information – I suppose I should do this but I can’t be bothered yet. The logic behind the book is extremely well devised and will make you scratch your head from time to time.
Overall, this book is amazing, and I recommend it to EVERYONE everywhere. And, as an added incentive, the book contains the full answer to life, the universe and everything. READ THIS NOW.
Advantages: Everything! Disadvantages: You need to read it more thanm once to fully appreciate it!
Stephen Fry once described Douglas Adams as "Not so much a man, as a force of nature". This may seem a little over the top, yet if you read this novel, you will understand the reasoning behind it. The book is funny, sarcastic, a little political and one of the most imaginative pieces of fictional writings I have ever read!
This book was first published in 1979, after a Radio series and a television series were produced. This is probably the only ... ...only decent book. The hype surrounding the book was so huge that Douglas Adams was paid in advance for the sequel. With the death of Douglas at the age of 49 earlier this year, the book has become famous again and for anyone interested, the tv series of the radio series is on on Monday the 30th July, i.e tomorrow! If it’s anything like the book, you’ll love it!
The book begins on Earth and we hear the story of Arthur Dent, a thirty-year ...
bethybaby 29.07.2001
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Ciao don't do general opinions on an author as such, so I'm making my own stand for the sake of Douglas Adams' memory. It's the least I can do.
What a laugh. That's pretty much all you can say about the man, except to add that he was a clever, witty, caring and creative genius.
Born in March, 1952 in Cambridgeshire, he was educated in a high school in Brentwood, Essex before returning home and attending St. Johns College, in the dreaming spires ... ...things, including getting outrageously drunk in Austria and having no money for a bed, crashing out in a field and thinking how brilliant it would be to just hop around the galaxy. People could use a sub-etha net to communicate their experiences of different planets, and tap into it whenever they wanted to find stuff out, or report their opinions. It feels incredibly eerie to be sitting in front of something which hadn't been thought of when the ...
Salgirl 24.03.2001 (13.05.2001)
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Advantages: Great story, great characters Disadvantages: Some of the jokes just don't work
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has long been regarded as a comedy classic and a milestone in science fiction writing, and has spawned a whole host of copycat books, most of which failed miserably to live up to the original and best. The beauty of it lies in the originality of the idea, even if some of the jokes try to be a little clever for their own good, and to be honest, some passages read quite awkwardly.
That said, re-reading this ... ...enjoyable experience. A lot of it is probably because the characters and the plot are so familiar – I’ve heard the radio play, seen the 1980s TV series and read all five books in the trilogy (yes, a trilogy of five in classic Adams fashion...) so many times that I remembered bits of storyline before I’d even reached the right page.
However, for those of you who might not be familiar with the course of events, here goes: This is ...
JVL 30.11.2001
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When my husband phoned me at work to tell me Douglas Adams had died, I almost cried at my desk. I have been a fan since I first read 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' at around age 8, and since then I have read his work voraciously and waited impatiently for each new installment to come out. No other writer has ever made me laugh so hard, laugh out loud or keep laughing through as many re-reads as Douglas has.
After some online research, it ... ...after suffering a heart attack at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was only 49 years old. His personal assistant Sophie Astin is quoted as saying "It was a very sudden and unexpected death", and I'm sure this sentiment is echoed by his scores of fans throughout the world.
Best known for his "trilogy in five parts" (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long ...
gennymutant 14.05.2001
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Advantages: Smart and witty. Disadvantages: Bit short
This is the kind of book that changes lives, that influences to the point of taking over your life. It lives you just on the brink of insanity, and if you don't come out of it confused, you did a hell of a lot better than me.
The story starts off with the lead character Arthur Dent waking up one Thursday. The day doesn't start off well. Outside his house is a council bulldozer, poised and ready to knock down his house to build a bypass. Arthur's ... ...the bulldozer.
Arthur soon gets a visit from his good pal Ford Prefect. He eventually persuades Arthur to leave his position in the mud to join him for a stiff drink at the local pub. Here he tells Arthur the truth, that his is actually an alien from a planet in the region of Betelgeuse, and not from Guildford. Yet, there is even worse news for our hero. Earth is soon to be demolished to make way for a bypass. Arthur and Ford survive by catching ...
shanecahill 24.08.2001
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Advantages: Incredible humour. Disadvantages: Douglas Adams R.I.P you are sadly missed
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hitching a lift on the Vogon Spaceship, are tortured by Vogon poetry before being thrown into the void of space. Miraculously they are rescued by Ford’s friend Zaphod and their adventures throughout the Galaxy commence, including meeting Marvin the Paranoid Android, the white mice who ran experiments on humans for years and witnessing the end of the universe. Seem like all a bit too much? Then take the advice of the HitchhikersGuideto the Galaxy and Don’t Panic!
This is the first book in the DNA’s (Douglas Noel Adams) trilogy in five parts, and contains his inimitable humour from cover to cover – it had me in stitches of laughter many times. If you want a sci-fi book that doesn’t take itself too seriously and is packed with gags, then this is for you. The story moves at the speed of a ship powered by an infinite improbability drive ...
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