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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1-5)

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This volume contains six zany, outrageous, out-of-this-world adventure stories by bestselling author Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Young Zaphod; and Mostly Harmless.

Leather Bound, Deluxe Edition, 815 pages

Published November 2005 by Gramercy (first published 1992)

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Apr 06, 2009 Keely rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction, humor, novel, reviewed, uk-and-ireland, space-opera

The universe is a joke.

Even before I was shown the meaning of life in a dream at 17 (then promptly forgot it because I thought I smelled pancakes), I knew this to be true--and yet, I have always felt a need to search for the truth, that nebulous, ill-treated creature. Adams has always been, to me, to be a welcome companion in that journey.

Between the search for meaning and the recognition that it's all a joke in poor taste lies Douglas Adams, and, luckily for us, he doesn't seem to mind if you...more The universe is a joke.

Even before I was shown the meaning of life in a dream at 17 (then promptly forgot it because I thought I smelled pancakes), I knew this to be true--and yet, I have always felt a need to search for the truth, that nebulous, ill-treated creature. Adams has always been, to me, to be a welcome companion in that journey.

Between the search for meaning and the recognition that it's all a joke in poor taste lies Douglas Adams, and, luckily for us, he doesn't seem to mind if you lie there with him. He's a tall guy, but he'll make room.

For all his crazed unpredictability, Adams is a powerful rationalist. His humor comes from his attempts to really think through all the things we take for granted. It turns out it takes little more than a moment's questioning to burst our preconceptions at the seams, yet rarely does this stop us from treating the most ludicrous things as if they were perfectly reasonable.

It is no surprise that famed atheist Richard Dawkins found a friend and ally in Adams. What is surprising is that people often fail to see the rather consistent and reasonable philosophy laid out by Adams' quips and absurdities. His approach is much more personable (and less embittered) than Dawkins', which is why I think of Adams as a better face for rational materialism (which is a polite was of saying 'atheism').

Reading his books, it's not hard to see that Dawkins is tired of arguing with uninformed idiots who can't even recognize when a point has actually been made. Adams' humanism, however, stretched much further than the contention between those who believe, and those who don't.

We see it from his protagonists, who are not elitist intellectuals--they're not even especially bright--but damn it, they're trying. By showing a universe that makes no sense and having his characters constantly question it, Adams is subtly hinting that this is the natural human state, and the fact that we laugh and sympathize shows that it must be true.

It's all a joke, it's all ridiculous. The absurdists might find this depressing, but they're just a bunch of narcissists, anyhow. Demnading the world make sense and give you purpose is rather self centered when it already contains toasted paninis, attractive people in bathing suits, and Euler's Identity. I say let's sit down at the bar with the rabbi, the priest, and the frog and try to get a song going. Or at least recognize that it's okay to laugh at ourselves now and again. It's not the end of the world.

It's just is a joke, but only some of us are in on it.(less)

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Apr 08, 2011 Lowed rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

- whew!! kept me singing that old song that goes ♫♪"i just can't get enough!" ♫♪

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Jul 20, 2008 Chelsea rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Chelsea by: Haley

Shelves: humor, own, fantasy, scifi, recced, 2008, fiction

Just as funny as advertised, but I made the mistake of reading the collection of all five novels, and - what's more - trying to read them all in one go. Once I got about halfway through Life, the Universe, and Everything, it had stopped being funny and had gotten a little confusing. Adams is excellent at humor, not so much at plot.

So, for clarification: 5 stars for the original Hitchhiker's, 4 for The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and 3 stars for the others.

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Jul 10, 2008 Nicholas rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: all o' y'all

OK. Where do I start with this one. It's a doozy.

Let's first of all say that I think this is one of the best uses of the English language. It's right up there with, well, anything else. I mean, just read the sentences. He is a lot like Tolkien, in that he makes the words themselves the art. But where Tolkien will take English and make it into a lush, broad canvas, Mr. Adams turns English into a plaything. Let's put my last sentence another way: The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is the literar...more OK. Where do I start with this one. It's a doozy.

Let's first of all say that I think this is one of the best uses of the English language. It's right up there with, well, anything else. I mean, just read the sentences. He is a lot like Tolkien, in that he makes the words themselves the art. But where Tolkien will take English and make it into a lush, broad canvas, Mr. Adams turns English into a plaything. Let's put my last sentence another way: The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is the literary equivalent of juggling chainsaws. You read it through the first time, and you have no freaking clue how he did that with those words.

OK, we got that out of the way. How bout the story now? Sure, that sounds good, Nick.

There is no plot.

For all of you who need one, I'm very very sory. But frankly, it's better that way. Life doesn't have a plot, right? You just sort of muddle through your week doing the best you can with what Life can throw at you. Well, that's the point with this. He takes the most regular guy, the guy you'd like to hang out with, someone decent that you can introduce to your sister. And then Adams throws him out into space and just sees what happens.

Certain parts of this book, especially at the beginning, are an adaptation of the BBC Radio programme aired in 1977, which was also written by Douglas Adams. And he wrote H2G2 episodically, but also with no clear goal in mind. So when his characters come to a problem, Adams had no idea what would happen to them until he wrote the solution. Some rather large pieces of the story stuck in H2G2 this way. This is most true in the earlier books in the Trilgy (yes, it's five books in a series; The trilogy is inaccurately named), when the writing is fresher and better.

But the best part of H2G2 (and all of DNA's books, frankly, even Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) is his worldview. Basically, it's all about taking what life gives you with patience, humor, and tea. Yes, he was an Atheist (Yes, I'm a Christian whose favorite thinker/writer/guy was an Atheist. Calm down, calm down.), and he disliked people using ideas and beliefs as a crutch. This is the part where it's hard to really write a coherent review for me, because so many loved ones of mine (hi Mom and Dad) would see this as a Very Bad Idea. So why don't you shoot me an email, and we can have a discussion about it? Maybe sit down, and have some coffee and some nice nosh and chat? You'll get more and better ideas out of me that way. Anyways, I've just lost my train of thought, so I'll just say you'll love the part about the Vogon poetry.

And H2G2 is an inaccurately named trilogy, because it is composed of five books. I recommend reading them all at once, even though there's no plot and things in one book will sometimes contradict things in another. Anyways, this trilogy is still one of my favorites. (less)

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Dec 28, 2007 Joe S rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: really boring Brits who can't get over being really boring, or British

Shelves: novels, speculative-fiction

Why does British humor rely so much on the use of indifference? Just something I've noticed.

So the Earth is destroyed. In an indifferent manner, which makes it hi-larious. A bloke is saved and, unmoored in the Universe, is dragged through a series of droll hijinx. One formulaic hijinx after another, which are really just vehicles for terribly self-satisfied one-liners. And then the novel stops at a seemingly arbitrary point -- though I suspect it's actually the point of diminishing returns. At a...more

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Jun 27, 2009 Misha rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: high-school, loved-it, novel, science-fiction, pee-your-pants-funny

I first read what was then the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy in high school. I remember sitting on the bleachers in the gym reading while other people played volleyball or some other indoor sport and being swept away on a rollicking ride across the universe, and even to its end. Much more fun than volleyball. You brought much joy and laughter to my life, Douglas Adams. So long and thanks for all the fish.

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Nov 27, 2008 Suzy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: patient readers

It's that book you pick up and feel obligated to love, if only to escape grievous fan persecution. Well. Here goes.

Let's start with the humour. Yes, it's everything that humour should be. For a while, you are oh-so-amused and impressed...but then you weary of being so amused. Akin to being kept on the edge of your seat for a good few hours - something's going to get sore. It's just such a strain. I skipped ten or so pages near the middle but I'm sure those ten pages were, like the rest of the b...more

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Jan 04, 2010 Sandy Tjan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: bbc-big-reads, contemporary-fiction, 2010, doorstoppers, abandoned, sci-fi, expanding-my-horizon

This review is for the first two books only.

I have a confession to make: I am allergic to sci-fi. The kind that has as its hero a humanoid who lives in 23345 AD on a dystopian red planet, where he must fight slimy insectoid aliens whose sole purpose in life is to lay and hatch their filthy eggs on human bodies. The guy is barely human anyway, with half his face swathed in shiny robotic gear with glowing red eyes that look like the battery-powered tip of my 10 year old’s toy laser gun. Or instead...more This review is for the first two books only.

I have a confession to make: I am allergic to sci-fi. The kind that has as its hero a humanoid who lives in 23345 AD on a dystopian red planet, where he must fight slimy insectoid aliens whose sole purpose in life is to lay and hatch their filthy eggs on human bodies. The guy is barely human anyway, with half his face swathed in shiny robotic gear with glowing red eyes that look like the battery-powered tip of my 10 year old’s toy laser gun. Or instead of being half-android, he is half Vulcan or Neptune or whatever and thus has the emotional life of a plant. He would speak in pseudo-scientific jargon, something like, “ I must get the quark-photon-intercellular battery on my jet-propulsion pack to work so that I can get back to my Hyper Drive Interstellar Pod and shoot off to Alpha Centauri XYZ2345 in 10,000 times the warp speed along the space-time continuum”. I could feel my brain slowly turn to mush after barely ONE page of dialogue like that. He would have a robotic sidekick that looks like my Brabantia Dome Lid Waste Container with a string of blinking Christmas light around it, except that it can also speak in a metallic voice that somehow sounds like my mother-in-law in one of her bad days. Oh, and there will be other more sympathetic alien life forms that look like the misbegotten offspring of a camel and an orangutan, or some rubbery stuffed toy that the dog had chewed to bits. In short, I just can’t see why I should care about the fate of these monstrous, barely human creatures. Why waste precious time reading about some trash can android or an alien that looks like the Elephant Man on a bad hair day while there are perfectly normal, realistic HUMAN characters out there?

My favorite genre is historical fiction; you know, those books about human beings who either have been dead for centuries, or never existed at all, written by people who cannot possibly have any first-hand knowledge of the period that they’re writing about? Nothing could be more different than science fiction, something that I have not touched in 20 years or so.

So, what am I doing with The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus, 832 pages of sci-fi drenched in techno babble and redolent of the smell of a million alien armpits?

Well, for one thing, it’s included in the BBC’s 100 Big Reads, which for some reason has become my guide to a worthwhile reading list that is not solely composed of the classics. The other thing is that it’s supposed to be one of the funniest books ever written ---I can always overlook the sci-fi for the funnies. And the characters are recognizably human, or at least sort of human, although one of them is called Zaphod Beeblebrox, (which, incidentally would make a good brand name for a laxative) and has two heads and three arms. The other two are genuine human beings from Earth --- or carbon-based ape-descended life forms --- take your pick, and the other one is a human looking alien with ginger hair (a hideous genetic mutation that should be bred out in real humans). And he is conveniently named Ford Prefect. No need to memorize ridiculous alien names when a simple English one will do.

And now that we are superficially acquainted with the protagonists, it’s time to summarize the plot of this sprawling intergalactic tome --- except that there is no real plot to speak of. Well, actually there is something about looking for the Ultimate Question --- ‘What is the meaning of life?’ --- which is of interest to all life forms in the universe, at least to those that have the brain capacity to ponder such things. But mostly they just bounce around from one bizarre planet to another, having weird adventures in which they meet, among others, a paranoid android, rebellious appliances, a comatose intergalactic rock star and a megalomaniac book publisher. Ultimately, the barely there plot is nothing but an excuse for an absurdist farce through which Adams pokes fun at organized religion, meat-eaters, politicians, big businesses, environmentalists, the publishing industry and other pet peeves. Some parts are brilliantly funny, especially in the first book, while others had me scratching my head and wondering whether he was high on something when he wrote them. Certain sections are mind-numbingly boring and confusing in that special sci-fi way. Oh, and the constant smugness and non-stop zaniness are grating after the second book or so, and I just lost interest completely after finishing it.

At least I know now that ‘babel fish’ is not just a strangely named online translation program. And that it is possible to write a book about what is essentially nonsense and have it become a major pop culture icon. But I’m also mightily relieved that I can stop hitchhiking through THIS universe, which is probably too cool and too clever for me to completely understand.

And this shall be my last sci-fi book for the next 20 years.
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Jun 27, 2011 Jimmy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Human, Vogon, Worm, Towel, anything with a consciousness

Recommended to Jimmy by: Who didn't?

What to say about the bible of mankind? This is the best, the greatest, the uber, the wonder, the rainbow, the sun, moon, satellite, planets, stars, universe.... This... is... 42!!!!
I have read these five books of the triology seven or eight times, and will read it at least once a year for the rest of my life!
If you haven't read it yet, stop reading this and run for your life to get your own copy, or borrow it from a friend! Because believe me, your life now won't seem like life at all after you...more

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Nov 02, 2007 Vanessa rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

I read this book to understand a guy I liked. It's funny cuz it's true. And now that I don't like the guy, the book is not as interesting as it once tried to be in my life.

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Oct 24, 2012 Justin Birdsong rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Great read, and a brilliant example of British satire and comedy.

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May 30, 2012 Vishy marked it as to-read · review of another edition

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

When I was studying in college, the smart guys in my class used to read a particular kind of books. Some of these books were ‘The Lord of the Rings’ by JRR Tolkien (before it became a movie and was read by everyone else), novels by P.G.Wodehouse, ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ‘2001 : A Space Odyssey’ by Arthur C. Clarke, ‘One, Two, Three…Infinity’ by George Gamov, ‘The Fountainhead’ by Ayn Rand and ‘Zen and the Art of Motocycle Ma...more

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May 03, 2012 Yashaswani Singh rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams is about a man, Arthur Dent, who learns one Thursday lunchtime that the earth is about to be destroyed, to make way for a spaceship bypass. His friend, Ford Prefect, is actually not from earth, but from the region of Betelgeuse in the galaxy. Ford Prefect, along with Arthur Dent, hitch hikes aboard the ship that destroys the earth. From then on, Arthur Dent's journey across the galaxy is absolute madness, from The Restaurant At The Universe,...more

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Aug 31, 2008 Mike rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The coolest five-book trilogy ever. Seriously some of the best and original science fiction ever written, and it just happens to be hilarious. Not too many people have the balls to write a trilogy that starts off with the absolute destruction of earth for no other reason than the fact that it was in the path of a hyperspace highway that was soon to become obsolete with the advent of the improbability drive. Speaking of which, the technology in these books is easily more imaginative than anything...more

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Apr 13, 2007 Gregory Philips rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anyone who doesnt take things too seriously.

I first came across this book quite by accident. I happened to over hear a friend of mine talking about how a tiny robot with a brain the size of a planet had such a depressing view of life that he managed to talk a spaceship into commiting suicide!!!

What better introduction do you need into the world of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the largest selling book in the Universe? Needless to say I was hooked and couldnt wait to borrow a copy and begin reading. And once I read it, I read it ag...more

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Nov 05, 2012 Greg Duff rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

We as humans now have directions on soap that read "Use as regular soap". This book looks at the absurdity of life, the universe and everything in it and why we have such directions. Through the actions of the everyman Arthur Dent we see the universe through Adams' eyes and how he views the absurdity of existance. Using fantastic wit, dry humour and descriptions that defy all conventions, Adams forces us to look at the universe in ways that change how we live. From manic depressive robots, buroc...more

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Jan 01, 2008 Meirav Rath rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Humor lovers, Adams fans, Sci-fi lovers

Shelves: fiction, adams, re-read, highly-recomnended

Often I ran around with this book in public and people though I was reading the bible...it's a bible of some sort, in a sense.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide trilogy-in-five-volumes is not all on the same level of amusement and good plot-weaving but it's a classic and a masterpiece nonetheless. It's very hard to create a whole fictional universe that's credible and interesting, and just for that Adams's Guide is art in fiction. Each of his characters in believable, endearing and captivating and, eventua...more

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Aug 05, 2007 Madeline rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: the-list, science-fiction

Douglas Adams is either the craziest, most creative and funniest author I've ever read, or he's just on crack.
Or maybe it's a little of both.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the books that follow it are all completely insane and impossible to summarize, so I'm not even going to try. They're books that can't be taken too seriously, so just sit back, relax, and enjoy the portrait of insanity Adams so expertly paints.

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Jul 20, 2009 Stephanie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure, fantasy, sci-fi, spoofs

This is the second time that I've read most of these books. (First time for Mostly Harmless.) They weren't quite as funny as I remembered from the first time. Still, I did laugh out loud several times. Especially when I read God's final message to his Creation. I skipped reading Young Zaphod plays it safe, mostly because I never really like Zaphod. All in all, very enjoyable books, and I think everyone should read them at least once.

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Mar 21, 2009 Liz rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It doesn't get any better than this. Best books ever.

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May 07, 2013 Daniel R. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: top-10

As a former Art History student, I will often revert back to reading books that require a lot of time spent looking up references, definitions or grappling with a new concept. I will usually find myself wondering, why don't I just read for fun? The answer ultimately ends up being because reading for fun does not satisfy me the way reading for personal development does, with a couple exceptions (some people refer to these as guilty pleasures.)

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Galaxy is no guilty pleasure...more

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Apr 18, 2013 lia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-novel

Hilariously funny, and a satirical view of the world. I couldn't stop smiling (and sometimes laughing out loud!) when reading this.

The earth was demolished by the Vogon contractors to make an hyperspace bypass. Which earth human couldn't protest, of course, because the announcement was already posted 50 decades earlier in the nearby galaxy and it was our fault if we are too lazy not to check it.

Arthur was helped to escape by his friend Ford Prefect by hitchhiking in the Vogon's spaceship but no...more

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Apr 14, 2013 Kate rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Douglas Adams’ best known work, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy caught the attention as a BBC radio comedy in the 1970s and then progressed into a trilogy of five books to be spread and sold in the whole world.
Only seconds before the destruction of the Earth by an alien race, the Vogon, who want to create space for the construction of a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent escapes from the planet with his friend, Ford Prefect, who is actually also an alien, by hitchhiking on a space ship. Followi...more

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Feb 15, 2013 KA N Newton rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Early teens to Adults.

There is nothing in the book that is scary that was not in the TV series.

Great book to read chapter by chapter.

Arthur Dent is in bed one morning and is woken by the sound of diggers outside coming to knock down his house. He tries to stop them by lying in the road.

This is interrupted by Ford Prefect, a human shaped alien come to rescue him before the Earth is "disappeared" for a bypass in space.

Ford prefect and Arthur Dent hitch a lift on a spaceship and that is the start...more

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Jan 28, 2013 Harsha Priolkar rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

I cannot believe I didn't read this book earlier!! It is just so utterly 'my kind of book'! Well, better late than never. This book or should I say epic...reminds me of LOTR, in that both create new worlds and in this case whole universes for us to wander and immerse ourselves in :)

I suppose the book falls into the sci-fi category but it's so much more. It's about being human on planet Earth and what it means to be human in the context of the Universe. I for one know that I would love for the Un...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Stuart rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Reviewing all these together because I can't remember which bits are in which to a point. They're brilliant, frankly :thumbup: The plot is minimal, but right off the bat they draw you in to the hilarious absurd and never let go. Think the last book is probably the weakest, but it's still excellent. My favourite bits: Right at the start where Ford convinces the foreman to lie in front of his own bulldozers, Arthur telling Fenchurch the story about the train station and the packet of biscuits, and...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Dave marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: calibre, fiction

EDITORIAL REVIEW: **At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams’s beloved Hitchiker series.*****The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy***Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised *Guide*. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.***The Restaurant at the End of the Universe***Facing annihilation at the h...more

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Dec 28, 2012 Heylook Itsbuck rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was my first introduction to sci-fi books and really reading in general. I played the text adventure on the apple IIe, way back in the day, before I had read the books and got no where in it. I happened to find the first three paperbacks at a goodwill one day and grabbed em hoping they might help me with the game, they didn't, but what they did do was make me enjoy reading for the first time in my life. I used to fall asleep in class when we would have reading periods, but these books actua...more

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Dec 18, 2012 Andrew Ha rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: cool-cool-cool

Prior to getting this 5 book-single volume set I had never read a work of Douglas Adam's. I am supremely glad that it had caught my eye as I was leaving the bookstore and I'm sure I would've bought it even if it weren't on sale.

I haven't re-read it in awhile, so I can only offer some general notes about it.

It makes me think, "As complex as things are in the universe, and they are unfathomably complex (perhaps nearly as much as dining room mathematics), you can make them seem incredibly simple by...more

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Nov 24, 2012 Jennifer rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was really excited to read this book. It was so highly rated that I bought the Ultimate Guide without a second thought. After reading the first book in the series (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), I was underwhelmed based on the hype. Don't get me wrong, it was funny in that British dry humor way, but the story seemed kind of aimless. I felt like it was less about a plot and more a vehicle for witticisms and musings, which is fine but not generally the type of book I enjoy.

I decided I n...more

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BBCode	[url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12.The_Ultimate_Hitchhiker_s_Guide?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book][img]http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1156039839l/12.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12.The_Ultimate_Hitchhiker_s_Guide?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book]The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story by Douglas Adams[/url]

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1-5)

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