Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams > Reviews > My Favourite Book Ever!

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Advantages:	Extremely Entertaining and Funny
Disadvantages:	Get Repetitive when you get to the fifth book

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

I first read this book when I was ten and found it absolutely, completely, amazingly and utterly hilarious. There are a total of five books in the series-or a trilogy in five parts, as its called-The Hitchhikers 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. They are quite expensive-about £5.00 each I think, though you can buy then in a single hardbook copy for only about £15.00 and if you buy them used, they are cheap.

The Science Fiction Comedy genre of the book is hard to write-the balance between the two has to be perfect, but Douglas Adams has perfected it. It is science fiction, but the science fiction is funny. I think that the whole universe in the guide is quite insane and weird, but extremely funny. The humour inside the book is very similar to that of the Monty Python Movies.

Basically, the book is about a normal Earthman named Arthur Dent who is thirty year old. He finds himself lying in front of a bulldozer to prevent his house being demolished to make way for a new bypass. Though his friend, Ford Prefect who is from a planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse (he chose his name because he thought it would be nicely inconspicuous) and has been trapped on earth for fifteen years and is also Arthur's best friend. He explains to him that Vogon-a vile, ugly, bureaucratic race, have come to demolish the Earth to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. I shall not reveal anymore of the plot, though.

If you have seen the film and didn't like it, don't judge the book on the film! I greatly disliked the film until I treated it as something seperate from the book. But even if you hate the film read the book still!

Even though this book is great, when you get to the fifth book, it isn't as good and is getting a bit repetitive at times. On the other hand, have read this three times, and it still makes me laugh! It is great book-I highly recommend it. It's even in the Top 21 Big read books! If you do not read it, you are missing out!