The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) in Around the World in 80 Books

Feb 08, 2014 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: on-the-road, fiction, sci-fi-fantasy, adventure, travel, the-great-american-read

Let's see if I can sum this up in one sentence: Arthur Dent has a bulldozer arrive in his yard which is part of a move to destroy the earth and---boom!---the planet is destroyed, but somehow he, along with his extraterrestrial friend Ford Prefect, is saved and escapes via hitchhiking on an alien ship, and he learns, while traveling using the Infinite Improbability Drive, the meaning of the universe.

Delightful.

A few quotes:

“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a V ...more

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Feb 12, 2013 AyaSuu rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Es ist nicht ganz einfach, über so einen Klassiker der Science Fiction etwas zu schreiben - ich versuchs trotzdem.
"Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis" ist in erster Linie eine Sammlung wahnwitziger Ideen: vom Babelfisch im Ohr, dessen Ausscheidung es ermöglicht, andere Sprachen zu verstehen, über Marvin, den depressiven Roboter, bis hin zu Magrathea, dem Planeten, der Planeten baut, und den Mäusen als wahren Herrschern der Erde - das Buch ist eine Fundgrube für Komisches, Seltsames und Allzumenschli ...more

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Aug 01, 2017 Missyjohnson1 rated it liked it · review of another edition

I probably would have liked the radio show better. I think that I will watch the movie to see how that turns out. seemed a bit juvenile. certainly not deeply thought out sci-fi. British humour is evident and reading it in that vein makes it ok.

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Sep 28, 2014 Corinna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2014

Honestly, it's not really my genre. Nevertheless I thought this is a book one should have read.

I thought it was okay. Funnily written but towards the end I got a bit confused. ...more

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