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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)

Douglas Adams

Start date: January 1, 2015

Finish date: January 31, 2015

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Aug 07, 2017 Marta Conejo rated it liked it · review of another edition

Le pongo tres, pero más cerca del dos.
No me ha gustado por muchas cosas, y yo entiendo que quizás una de ellas es que es una novela escrita hace mucho tiempo y que, quizás, años atrás, era un humor sagaz y divertido. Este argumento no me gusta porque he leído novelas antiguas y me han gustado.

Me parece que tiene muchos toques de humor, algunos de los cuales te hacen pensar e ir más allá, pero poco más. La historia me parece corta, mal cerrada y parece que ha sido escrita corriendo.

No sé cómo d ...more

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Jan 05, 2016 Manaswin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, humour, space, science-fiction, fantasy

Wow!! I've been a fool to haven't read this gem of a novel before. I did read Adams' Dick series and had certain expectations from this one, but boy this just blew away them all and then some more. Humor is definitely why it's such a widely read story but the science it tells is way beyond the times it was written. The galaxy guide is an electronic touch device and that man imagines this when even owning a landline phone was a big deal for households in my country.
And the wit and the punchy punc ...more

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Jan 02, 2015 Simona rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2015-genre-reading-challenges-rmfao, science-fiction, speculative-fiction

I love having a good laugh; even better when they come in a row. Here, laughs just keep on coming, page after page.

Douglas Adams' writing style is quick, and quirky, and really simple, so that this book can really be considered a pleasure-read.

Sci-fi isn't really my forte. It is a genre I've not dedicated myself to as much as some other, but this one I can honestly say got me aching for some space-travel. ...more

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Nov 21, 2018 Akhil rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Finally, I read this one. Better late than never.

Weirdly hilarious, one-of-its-kind.

I couldn't help but marvel at the situations and odd characters in the story and how laugh-out-loud funny it is.

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