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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,988,414 ratings — published 1979
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 4.20 — 312,457 ratings — published 1980
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
by (shelved 40 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 4.16 — 248,080 ratings — published 1982
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)
by (shelved 40 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 4.08 — 183,508 ratings — published 1984
Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)
by (shelved 39 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 3.96 — 138,030 ratings — published 1992
And Another Thing... (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #6)
by (shelved 25 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 3.57 — 33,255 ratings — published 2009
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
by (shelved 6 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 4.38 — 336,208 ratings — published 1996
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 3.94 — 30,679 ratings — published 2002
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 3.67 — 29,640 ratings — published 1986
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 4.36 — 22,055 ratings — published 1979
The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,747 ratings — published 1989
Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 3.66 — 386 ratings — published 2003
Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 3.55 — 495 ratings — published 1969
Starship Titanic (IMAGINAIRE)
by (shelved 1 time as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 3.61 — 13,325 ratings — published 1997
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 3.97 — 147,532 ratings — published 1987
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as hitchhiker-s-guide)
avg rating 4.04 — 88,906 ratings — published 1988
“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitively inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it's always reality that's got it wrong.
This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
This has led to some interesting consequences. For instance, when the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Tralal literally (it said "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists: instead of "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists"), they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
This has led to some interesting consequences. For instance, when the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Tralal literally (it said "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists: instead of "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists"), they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Janx Spirit : Janx Spirit is a rather potent alcoholic beverage, and is used heavily in drinking games that are played in the hyperspace ports that serve the madranite mining belts in the star system of Orion Beta. The game is not unlike the Earth game called Indian Wrestling, and is played like this: Two contestants sit at either side of a table, with a glass in front of each of them. Between them would be placed a bottle of Janx Spirit — as immortalized in that ancient Orion mining song :
“Oh don’t give me no more of that Old Janx Spirit
No, don’t you give me no more of that Old Janx Spirit
For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die
Won’t you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit”
Each of the two contestants would then concentrate their will on the bottle and attempt to tip it and pour spirit into the glass of his opponent – who would then have to drink it. The bottle would then be refilled. The game would be played again. And again. Once you started to lose you would probably keep losing, because one of the effects of Janx spirit is to depress telepsychic power. As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Oh don’t give me no more of that Old Janx Spirit
No, don’t you give me no more of that Old Janx Spirit
For my head will fly, my tongue will lie, my eyes will fry and I may die
Won’t you pour me one more of that sinful Old Janx Spirit”
Each of the two contestants would then concentrate their will on the bottle and attempt to tip it and pour spirit into the glass of his opponent – who would then have to drink it. The bottle would then be refilled. The game would be played again. And again. Once you started to lose you would probably keep losing, because one of the effects of Janx spirit is to depress telepsychic power. As soon as a predetermined quantity had been consumed, the final loser would have to perform a forfeit, which was usually obscenely biological.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
