The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Published March 29, 2005 by Random House Audio.

ISBN:
978-0-7393-2220-8
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months.

The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia.

Also contained in:

  • [The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts][1]
  • [The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide][2]

[1]: openlibrary.org/works/OL2163692W [2]: openlibrary.org/works/OL2163713W

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reviewed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

Still brilliant after all those years

5 stars

It's always strange to read a classic decades after it has become a classic, especially when it comes to Science Fiction or any other form that is heavily dependent on the time it was written.

I've read this book at least five times before, three times in the brilliant German translation by Benjamin Schwarz, and twice in the English original (one of those times in a weird censored American book club edition), and there was never any doubt for me that it was one of the greatest books ever written.

But that was in the 90s, and I hadn't read it in the thirty years since. Getting back to it now was an interesting experience. I knew everything that would happen, but not the precise order and descriptions of it happening. Many of the book's parts felt a bit bland, and there were very few situations that made me laugh …

Review of "The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

In the beginning there was science fiction. And there was comedy. But never the twain shall, erm, met.

But that all changed when, in the 1970s, an ape descendant called Douglas Adams got very, very drunk and passed out in a field in Austria and found himself assaulted by an idea.

Terribly ordinary Englishman, Arthur Dent, and his slightly less-ordinary friend, Ford Prefect, hitch a ride off Earth mere moments before the aforementioned planet is destroyed to make way for Progress. And then things get weird.

Expect the beige hood of inanity to be lifted off the gooey and absurd innards of reality. And some unreality. And some other stuff too.

Review of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The beginning to what turns into a great series. The Hitchhiker's franchise is that kind of thing that people either fall in love with or can't stand. I'm in the former camp. The humor, characters and pacing are at their absolute best here.

It's also a really quick read, so if you end up being in the camp that can't stand it, at least you didn't waste too much time!

Review of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on 'GoodReads'

3 stars

it was ok.... wished i would have read it before seeing the movie.... i could only see the characters as they were cast in the movie which i think kinda bogged the book down. it still was a fun read though!.... lots of funny existential or absurd ideas , random tangents and puns.

Review of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I can’t believe it took me so long to read this book. It’s the Sci-Fi version of Monty Python, weird humour that will stick with you for years and years to come. It’s really hard to review this book, all I can say the movie is terrible compared to the brilliant humour of [a:Douglas Adams|4|Douglas Adams|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1189120061p2/4.jpg]. I’m really looking forward to reading book two sometimes soon. Well worth reading.

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