Book 24: Hithhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams
Pan Brooks
1979
Rating:
4.5
Review. Thanks Amazon.com!
Don't panic! Here are words of praise for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!
"It's science fiction and it's extremely funny...inspired lunacy that leaves hardly a science fiction cliche alive."
Washington Post
"The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes, and his travels afford a wild satire of present institutions."
Chicago Tribune
"Very simply, the book is one of the funniest SF spoofs ever written, with hyperbolic ideas folding in on themselves."
School Library Journal
"As parody, it's marvelous: It contains just about every science fiction cliche you can think of. As humor, it's, well, hysterical."
From the Hardcover edition. -- Review
What Do I Think?
*Recent blogs will be terrible, just so you know.*
This has been my favorite book in along time. Not only was it very, very funny, it also made me think. It made me tink about how self-absorbed we are and how self-centered and egotystical we actually are on Earth. Maybe there is something else out there. Maybe we are just one giant experiment. Maybe it's all just to find the Question to the Ultimate Answer. Who knows? I bet someone does.
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