The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I just finished up the book, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Douglas Adams was born in England and has written many books for example The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, The meaning of Liff and others. He also wrote three stories to the hit BBC television series Doctor Who. Before The Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy is Douglas’s originated of a BBC radio comedy before becoming a book and also it was his most famous book. The book is about a man named Arthur Dent who meets and alien named Ford Perfect from Betelgeuse and their adventure throughout the galaxy hitch hiking. I believe the theme of the book is to not live in the box but to live abstractly. I think this because the universe is a huge place so don’t try to live in the box explore your surroundings meet new people and not be close minded.

The story starts out in England with Arthur Dent house getting torn down so a new road can be built; His whole life will change at that very moment. On that very day he meets an Alien named Ford Perfect; Arthur is I luck because on this day is when Vogons an alien race decide to destroy earths so they can create a space road way. This is perfect for Arthur because Ford has manage for both of them to hitch a ride with the Vogon ship's cooks. Unfortunately, the Vogons don't like hitchhikers, so Arthur and Ford get thrown out of the spaceship to die in the cold void of interstellar space. The rest of the book is about the adventures: to find the answer to the universe, to pick up and travel with other hitch hikers and to have the time of their lives.

I would not recommend for you to read this book; but if you like science fiction then you would love this book. Personally I did not like the book I found myself: spacing off, getting very bored and not understanding what was going on while I was reading this book. I think that you shouldn’t check this book out if you don’t like science fiction because this book while end up boring you and you will find that it is very slow moving book. I did not enjoy reading it.

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Book Review by Sophia R.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

The author of this novel is Douglas Adams, sci-fi writer extraordinare!  He has written four other books, each one more confusing than the last.  Each one follows up from his first novel.  Arthur Dent—the main character—has just lost his house, found out that his best friend is an alien, and has been pushed into an inter-galactic adventure.

Earth has been demolished, destroyed, blown-up, vaporized!  “What for?”  you may ask.  To make room for an inter-galactic by-pass, that’s why.  But not to fear, two humans have been spared from this tragedy.  One is the main character, Englishman Arthur Dent, saved accidentally by inter-galactic President, Zaphod Beeblebrox.  The other human survivor who happened to be traveling with Beeblebrox is a woman named Trillian.  Together they travel together to a mysterious planet.  Why do they do this?  Because they can—that’s why.

The tale itself is wacky.  The plot went missing awhile ago, and is probably holding the story’s common sense for ransom.  The novel is extremely hard to follow, but is really funny and is worth quite a few laughs.  If you are looking for a book to pass the time with—this is the book for you.

Book Review by Morgan D.