The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

by: Douglas Adams
Don't Panic. {cover copy}
This particular copy I was reading from was the Barnes and Noble leatherbound edition, so it didn't have cover copy. It did contain all the stories in one big book, which was nice. It also had a fantastic and funny introduction. 

I loved this story. It was so quirky and fun and weird and perfect. It's like a well plotted dream. And the writing itself is very clever and well done. This was a really enjoyable little ride through space and time and I am so glad I've finally read this book.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. {first line}
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now."

"So long and thanks for all the fish."

"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"

"The major problem--one of the major problems, for there are several--one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem."

"Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep..."

"That young girl ... is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."

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