Search - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker, Bk 1)

NOTE: This edition contains a 92-page bonus section on the making of the movie!

If you like British humor, you will love this book.

This book was enjoyable. I found it very funny almost to the point of silliness. I just finished it and I still don't understand it.

I just don't get the hype. Hard to follow. No real logical story line. If you like Monty Python, you will like this book.

It might get entertaining, but I wasn't interested after the 1st chapter. Written very simply without much description.

I gave this book five stars. “Just kidding!” Check this out! If you take “Spaceballs,” “Monsters versus Aliens,” “Player Piano,” and “Catch 22,” throw them into a blender and purée, you might just end up with this book. This wacky look at intergalactic space travel, zany situations, and preposterous characters permeates the ephemeral, volatile fabric of this convoluted, sometimes witty, often disjointed fabrication. Still it’s “mostly harmless.” Like the guy who fell asleep in class and was prodded by his neighbor with the answer to the teacher’s question about transendentalism; who jumped up and yelled “42”; you’ll discover the answer to life, the universe and everything.

• The improbability that someone would write this book is “two to the power twenty-five thousand to one against and falling.”
• The improbability that someone would publish it is “two to the power fifty thousand to one against and falling.”
• The improbability that someone would buy it is “two to the power seventy-five thousand to one against and falling.”
• The improbability that someone would actually read it is “two to the power one hundred thousand to one against and falling.”
• The improbability that a reviewer would place it on a “must read” list is “two to the power of infinity minus one to one against and falling.”