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Sci-fi at its finest and most entertaining, in my view. Douglas Adams gets the balance of seriousness and comedy down to a tee. Based on the BBC radio series, the story follows Arthur Dent, a lover... more

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  • 36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    murban

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    Advantages Advantages Amazing logic, makes you laugh like you've never laughed before, the best ending ever

    Disadvantages 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 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 ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    bethybaby

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    Advantages Advantages Everything!

    Disadvantages 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 novel in history to do this – at least the only decent book. The hype surrounding the book was so huge that Douglas Adams was paid in advance ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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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 town of Cambridge. He had done a variety of things, including getting outrageously drunk in Austria and having no money for a bed, crashing out in a ... more
  • 45 of 45 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 JVL

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    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great story, great characters

    Disadvantages 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 novel for the first time in ages was a very enjoyable experience. A lot of it is probably because the characters and the plot are so familiar ... more
  • 80 of 81 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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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 appears that Douglas died on Friday, the 11th of May after suffering a heart attack at his home in Santa Barbara, California. He was only 49 years old ... more

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Author Douglas Adams
Title Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Genre Humour
Type Fiction
ISBN 0345391802

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