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How shall we begin?<br><br>This is the story of a book called<i> The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</i>—not an Earth book,...
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How shall we begin?<br><br>This is the story of a book called<i> The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</i>—not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.<br><br>or<br><br>This is the story of <b>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</b>, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.<br><br>or<br><br>This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, secnds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with t
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| Authors | Douglas Adams |
| Fiction Genre | Unknown |
| Fiction Subgenre | Unknown |
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| New York Times Book Review: "[T]he novel...remains, without a doubt, the most cheerful book about the total destruction of Earth and its entire population minus one ever written." | |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books (June 01, 1997) Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.4 lbs. ISBN: 9780345418913 |
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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." |
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Don't Panic! - part one...
Pros: Hilarious, clever, inventive, ingenious, other words beginning with "in"... Cons: ... the third and fourth books are nowhere near as good as the first two... Bottom Line: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pros: So funny and clever, highly original Cons: Very short Bottom Line: The Answer, Of Course, is 42!
Pros: Humorous look at space travel Cons: None Bottom Line: Don't Panic!
Pros: Hilarious, well thought out, colorful metaphors Cons: None Bottom Line: You will laugh outloud while reading!
Pros: Excellent and funny story Cons: Wish there was more The worst Thursday that ever happened...
Pros: Wildly funny Cons: You might not be able to catch your breath Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: "Bring a Towel."
Pros: Funny. Intelligent. Insert other superlative words here. Cons: Douglas Adams is dead now. Bottom Line: The answer is 42
Pros: Hilarious, yet altogether serious Cons: Confusing at times, just read carefully Bottom Line: If you love and can laugh at science fiction
Pros: Really funny and exciting Cons: ? Watch the earth get destroyed! It's funny!
Pros: Entertaining, humourous and well-written Cons: Sounds like it all takes place in England, characters are a bit two-dimensional |
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