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

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Nov 27, 2020 Girish Joshi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It's a rather unusual book. You know, I wanted to love it. And I did when I started reading it. It was hard to read a line and not shed tears of laughter. The opening scene, with Arthur, Posser, and Ford was hysterical. And then listening to Vogon Captain sing his poetry. It was all so funny. And my god, the spot-on observations and one-liners of Douglas. This book had probably most screenshot moments. Where you are like, wait I have got to record this. It is so funny. Although sometimes that ma ...more

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Jul 22, 2020 Mo rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: series-1st-book, paranormal-fantasy, series, abandoned-ship, 2020, w-nypl, audiobook, w-audiobook, brit-lit, best-sellers

My husband and I started listening to this while taking our daily walks. At first, I really, really, REALLY enjoyed it... but then Arthur and Ford went into space and it all just turned into word salad.

"It consisted in large part of the engineers and researchers who had built the Heart of Gold-mostly humanoid, but here and there were a few reptiloid atomineers, two or three green slyph-like maximegalacticans, an octopoid physucturalist or two and a Hooloovoo (a Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent ...more

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