This is one of my all-time favorite books EVER. You should read this book and then read all four books in the trilogy (yes, four books in the trilogy). This book is funny, clever, entertaining, well-written and just plain fun. Don’t panic. Just read it!

posted Mar 4, 2012 at 5:03PM

A fun science fiction. Must read

posted Jul 28, 2011 at 12:46PM

Actually much funnier then I expected it, but its a more of a dumb humor, for lack of a better word :) Not that the book isn’t very good. Definitely a most read, I would recommend it.

posted Mar 4, 2010 at 9:00PM

I thought this book was very funny.

posted Dec 1, 2009 at 5:05PM

The reason this is on the list is really simple. It has all the points of a great novel - chase,love rejected,humor, friendships and a great sense of not taking itself serious.

posted Nov 29, 2009 at 4:28PM

“DON’T PANIC.” It is advice that villagers from The War of the Worlds might have disregarded as they ran from the attacking Martians, but it’s a reassuring message to readers of a very friendly, very helpful little book called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This strange book is Arthur Dent’s only guide to the life he now finds himself leading. He woke up one morning, you see, to find his house being demolished by a local construction crew, his planet being demolished by a galactic construction crew, and his best friend Ford Prefect ready to yank him out of the way of both. Now Arthur is part of a space-traveling gang made up of Ford, who’s really an alien disguised as an out-of-work actor; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the dazed and confused two-headed President of the Galaxy; Veet Voojagig, an alien grad student obsessed with all the pens he’s lost; pretty Trillian, who was whisked away from Earth’s destruction by her boyfriend Zaphod just as Arthur was whisked away by Ford; and Marvin, a chronically-depressed robot. And what this motley crew seeks is no less than the answer to the ultimate question: What is the meaning of life? And where did all of Veet’s pens disappear to? Readers will be laugh along with Arthur as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy introduces him to creatures like the all-translating babelfish and the horrid poetry writing Vogons. Satirical, nonsensical, original and inventive, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of the most delightful fusions of science fiction and humor to be read on any planet in the galaxy.

posted Jul 26, 2009 at 5:36PM

Hilarious. Written by the man that wrote scripts for Monty Python, this story is off the walls. Anyone that likes Sci-Fi, Comedy, or both is sure to love this book.

posted Jun 29, 2008 at 11:42AM

Humorous and slightly barbed. First three books of series are the best.

posted Feb 21, 2007 at 9:44AM

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