The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

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Losing your planet isn't the end of the world...the movie tie-in edition of Douglas Adams's perennially popular novel, with exclusive on-set stories, interviews and pictures Summer...
more...2005 finally sees the release of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY movie from Walt Disney Pictures. Stars include Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast, supercool hip-hop artist Mos Def as Ford Prefect and the gorgeous Zooey Deschanel as Trillian. Completely new characters were developed specially for the film by Douglas Adams before his death and will be played by John Malkovich and Anna Chancellor. Pan's tie-in edition of this cult classic will include substantial extras from Executive Producer, Robbie Stamp: exclusive cast interviews, stories and photographs from the set. About the AuthorDouglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV computer game, stage adaptation, comic book, bath towel and major movie. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. He was bron in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly on 11 May 2001. For more information, visit douglasadams.com





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Life, don't talk to me about life....
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by MHam

Advantages: Incredible humour.
Disadvantages: Douglas Adams R.I.P you are sadly missed

...is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Plans for development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is scheduled for demolition. The process will take slightly less than two of your earth minutes. Thank you’ That was the moment when the people of earth discovered that they are not alone in the universe; Arthur ... Read review

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23.06.2004
DONT PANIC
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by brownp1

Advantages: laugh out load funny
Disadvantages: they've changed the cover now

...Discworld series, Terry Pratchett being the current king of the comic sci-fi / fantasy novel an honour previously accorded to Douglas Adams. It was this quote along with the news of the death of Douglas Adams that led me to dig out hitchhiker for a re-read. Being a fan of both authors I thought hold on I remember Hitchhiker: the radio series, the book, the TV series – and all those memories are fond (particularly Sandra Dickinson as Trillian ... Read review

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02.08.2001
Douglas Adams R.I.P.
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by Salgirl

Advantages: Written by the late, great Douglas Adams
Disadvantages: There'll be no more of his unique humour

I've just seen the tragic announcement that Douglas Adams has died after a heart attack at the criminally young age of 49. I love the guy's writing and this is a very real loss to the literary world. An extraordinary talent cut brutally short. God bless you, Douglas, you've given me some real laughs, fun and enjoyment with your books. May you rest in peace. ************************************************************************* Douglas Adams ... Read review

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12.05.2001
Thumb through it
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by bespinleia

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...finished reading this book for the umpteenth time and it's still brilliant. I first came across this story when it was serialized on BBC Television, but it started out as a BBC Radio series. I was so taken with the TV series that I sought it out in the school library back in about 1985. (It was written in 1979). I found the book so absorbing, hilarious and just downright brilliant that I 'forgot' to take it back, and still have that original copy ... Read review

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01.02.2003
Douglas Adams, a hero
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by R_Easton

Advantages: Greatest author ever
Disadvantages: will write no more

...when I saw it in the paper. They had given him a very small section, one column and about thirty lines. I actually gave a minutes silence almost automatically after seeing the headline. Douglas Adams was almost a hero for me, as I enjoyed all his books. I would often learn things about the way he felt and thought about things, and it would sometimes scare me. I can say ‘I never really got the hang of Thursdays’ without it being a pure ... Read review

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09.10.2001
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Hitchhiker's Guide
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by explainable

Advantages: Hillarious, brilliant writing
Disadvantages: Impossible to put down

...impoverished Hitchhiker trying to see the marvels of the galaxy for less than thirty Altarian Dollars a day? For Arthur Dent, a perfectly ordinary Earthman, he is about to find out when his planet (a small blue green world called Earth) is destroyed or rather demolished by a Vogon constructor fleet to make way for a hyperspace bypass. He is also shocked to find that his best friend (the interestingly named "Ford Prefect" turns out to be from a ... Read review

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19.08.2001
My Guide to the Guide
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by willboy12

Advantages: A thrilling, extremely funny, witty and overal excellent book
Disadvantages: None

...a 5/5 rating; this by the way is one of them. You must of heard of the late legendary Douglas Adams, and perhaps you've heard a lot about the HitchHiker series in particular. I don't want to spend long on the plot, because I could go on forever. Basically, Arthur Dent is already having a bad morning as the council plan to demolish his house to make way for a new street bypass. To make matters worse, a superior alien race named the Vogons decide ... Read review

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06.07.2003
I blame Waterstones
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by paule23

Advantages: Very funny, very surreal, four books in one
Disadvantages: A little alternative for everyone's tastes

...none whatsoever, it's definitely all the fault of Waterstones. Now I don't mean to keep blaming other people for my problems, but there are sometimes when blame is inescapable, and this is one of those times! You might rightly wonder what the devil I'm talking about, sometimes I do too! It's about the world of the surreal, the world that I've been drawn into ever since reading The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy. And it wasn't just one book that ... Read review

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24.01.2001
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How to get a drink out of a Vogon
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by AP80

Advantages: Funny, Funny, FUNNY
Disadvantages: All too short

...and you can’t complain because the plans were on display in the planning office basement, in a locked filing cabinet in a disused toilet with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard! Well that is how Arthur Dent’s day starts, and its about to get much worse. Not only is his house to be knocked down, but his planet is to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and again he can’t complain because the plans were on display in the planning ... Read review

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09.11.2002
Not somebody else's problem...
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by DaveD

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...Mac... Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy is the book which made him famous. Indeed, it's such a well loved story that it's been a radio script, a TV show, and maybe will become a film. The books are the definitive version of the story, coming in a trilogy of 5 books.. hmm.. yep.. that's a triology. The main character is Arthur Dent, an ape descended life form who still thinks digital watches are a pretty neat idea. His best mate, Ford Prefect, is ... Read review

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14.07.2000
The funniest book ever !!!
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by Telute

Advantages: Funny, very funny
Disadvantages: Prehaps a little dated

...has to be one fo the funniets books I've ever read. Adams book basically consists of the story of a man from earth who is rescued by an alien when the eatrth is destroyed. The man is called Arthur Dent and the humour of the book comes mainly from his inablity to understand what is going on around him. The book includes some hilarious scenes and is worth reading merely for the character of Marvin the terminally depressed robot. Since it was written ... Read review

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20.10.2000
Don't Panic!!
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by milesofborg

Advantages: Incredible, lateral thinking humour
Disadvantages: Possible overkill from being so widely reproduced

...Hitch Hiker. So popular was the original novel that Douglas turned it into a trilogy...& then added another 2 sequels, making it the world's first 5 part trilogy!! On top of that, the first 3 books were serialized on BBC Radio & the first radio series was subsequently transferred to telivision. Rumours abound of a feature film too!!! The book is about...a book!! In fact the book which the book is about is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!!! ... Read review

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18.07.2000
Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy- A must read
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by mightythor

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...be many books funnier than the Hitch Hikers guide to the galaxy. The book is the first part of a trilogy of 4 or is that 5! It starts out with Arthur Dent who ends up being saved from death by his friend from Betelgeuse(although he did not know his friend was an alien at the time). Arthur survived but the Earth did not because it was demolished to make way for a sort of cosmic bypass. The story then follows Arthur Dent as he travels the Universe ... Read review

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12.07.2000
not just Science fiction
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by b.c.18

Advantages: hilarious
Disadvantages: none

Even better then the film, Hitch-hikers delivers more of Douglas Adams hilarious humour to the audience. Follow Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent and co. on their adventures through the Universe. From the destruction of Earth to wondering around Stone Age England with a talking sofa. Discover the final fate of the characters you meet; Slartibartfast, Marvin, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Trinian. This book is not just for those who like science-fiction as it brings ... Read review

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13.12.2007
Truly amazing
Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy - Douglas Adams by Lowey

Advantages: VERY FUNNY!!!
Disadvantages: needs quite a bit of imagination

The "Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy" is the first part of Douglas Adam's trilogy in five parts and I must say it is truly amazing and once you have read it you can understand exactly why this is the book that made him a true famous, legendary and classic author! Douglas Adams has managed to intermingle science-fiction with humour to such an extent that when reading you can't help but laugh out loud quite often (even though you usually get odd looks ... Read review

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