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DID NOT READ.
I only read the first four chapters. I can't get through it....I know so many people who LOVE this book...and so many who hate it. I am the latter...maybe not hate, more...dislike. After much discussion with my Sci-Fi friends...it was decided that those who read this in middle school LOVED this book. Those who did not try to read it until later...was greatly disappointed.
Sci-Fi...not my thing. ...more
I only read the first four chapters. I can't get through it....I know so many people who LOVE this book...and so many who hate it. I am the latter...maybe not hate, more...dislike. After much discussion with my Sci-Fi friends...it was decided that those who read this in middle school LOVED this book. Those who did not try to read it until later...was greatly disappointed.
Sci-Fi...not my thing. ...more

Can finally cross this one off my list. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Oh boy.
At least half a dozen people have told me this is on their all-time top ten list. Screamingly funny, with deep meaning layered into all the sci-fi hilarity. The book that changed their lives--or maybe, just the book that made them immediately seek out numbers two through five in the (ha-ha) trilogy.
Not getting it. I know the general consensus is that Douglas Adams was a genius, and his untimely death a great loss to science fiction, not to mention humanity. Perhaps. But unless the subsequ ...more
At least half a dozen people have told me this is on their all-time top ten list. Screamingly funny, with deep meaning layered into all the sci-fi hilarity. The book that changed their lives--or maybe, just the book that made them immediately seek out numbers two through five in the (ha-ha) trilogy.
Not getting it. I know the general consensus is that Douglas Adams was a genius, and his untimely death a great loss to science fiction, not to mention humanity. Perhaps. But unless the subsequ ...more

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Just don't get it. And I love sci fi.
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