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Buy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams available and for sale on Brightsurf
| View Larger Image | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
| | List Price: | $7.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 543 | | Studio: | Del Rey | | | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 224 | | Publication Date: | September 27, 1995 | | Publisher: | Del Rey |
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Product Description
"IRRESISTIBLE!"
--The Boston Globe
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.
Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!
"[A] WHIMSICAL ODYSSEY...Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy."
--Publishers Weekly |
Amazon.com
Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue. The Hitchhiker's Guide is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and British sitcoms. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 661 reviews)
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My go-to gift for 12 year old boys 
Not that this is a kid's book. This book is just so engaging and funny and is just perfect for keeping the cynicism of teenagerdom at bay for a bit, that it's a great gift for a difficult to buy for age.
I've read it so many times, I sometimes forget that parts of it haven't actually happened to me.
My brother and I quote from it liberally; from the whole series, to be fair.
Other reviewers have reviewed the text admirably, so I'll only add that I think this book should be required reading in all middle/junior high schools.
July 02, 2008 | |
Kindle edition - poor conversion of a good book 
No need to review the text, there are over 600 reviews, and I think those can pretty much cover what needs to be said. Rather, this is a review of the Kindle edition.
This is a poor conversion to the Kindle. There are a large number of typos. Text formatting is almost totally lost. Only chapter breaks are apparent. Section breaks which quote the encyclopedias are marked with italic text, but otherwise all the sections run into one another with no visual indication that a new section begins. From reading this, I'd guess that the publisher simply scanned the text and performed no copy-edit or proofreading.
June 29, 2008 | |
improbably great 
By the strangest coincidence I left this classic at the office and was stuck at home reading Hemingway short stories. Hemingway writes about drink, and war, and illness. Adams, on the other hand, writes about drink, and war, and illness. One thing's for sure: Hitchhiker's Guide is not science fiction. It is also not science. Probably not fiction either. What it is is really weird, like the front page of the daily newspaper, only more enjoyable.
May 28, 2008 | |
Ok For Now 
First off the story and Douglas Adams are among my favorite books/authors. I recommend the stories!
but: there are a lot of typos in this Kindle version. Just in the first chapter! Words run together. Some times three words.
also: I wish they would get the cover art figured out. When I buy a book I want the original cover and a photo of the Author if it is with the original book cover.
Please offer: The whole Hitchhiker' Guide series as a package price.
Please make available: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by D. Adams as a Kindle book.
April 27, 2008 | |
A clever little book
This was an interesting read. If you are looking for something decidedly different, this may be worth a look.
The story follows the misadventures of Arthur Dent. In the beginning, Arthur loses his house and his world in the same day. The Earth is destroyed by a fleet of bureaucratic Vogons, making way for a galactic freeway. Fortunately for him, Arthur is rescued by his alien friend, Ford Prefect. The two of them then fall into a variety of improbable situations, eventually learning the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.
This book is really short and should take no time for someone to buzz through. The storytelling was vivid, unique, and downright hilarious at times. The manner in which the author narrates is generally when the book is at its funniest, so I now find it odd that they tried to make a movie out of this. People should be aware that the humor is most definitely British.
My biggest complaint with the novel is the overabundance of the weird hard-to-pronounce names and the mind-numbing technical jargon (which really isn't technical). Sometimes it appears the author is having so much fun with a particular joke that he forgets to let the audience in on it.
All in all, Hitchhiker's Guide was a fun little read. I may just pick up Mr. Adam's second book, but I'm certainly not desperate for it.
April 22, 2008 | |
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