The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By Douglas Adams

Book Overview

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . and] over much too soon."--The Washington Post Book World Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read It's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien. After that, things get much, much worse. With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover. Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything. Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . . This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345391802
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.9" x 0.6" x 4.1"

Customer Reviews

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Could have used more 42s…

Excellent book all around. The quality of the book I ordered was awesome as well, no writing on the

To be honest I got this book as a gift and I have only really seen the movie. We all know that movies adaptations of books can be either really good or super bad so I hope the books is as good as the movie was.

Great condition and fast shipping

Better even than promised, it's practically new judging from the spine. Happy to have this!

An unusual guide

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun." I'm surprised that only one other review has been written about this book. This book is extremely funny, I first read it in high school and have reread it a couple of times since. Some of the humour in this book has dated, buit overall it has stood the test of time. The sequels to this...

Didn't Know What To Expect

I heard a lot about this book, though I never exactly knew what it was all about. After reading it, I am very satisfied. It contains a mix of humour and science fiction that I haven't encountered in past novels. It brought up several theories that made me think, including the impossible being the possible. This is a very entertaining book and easy to read. The plot is very easy to follow and the author wrote it in such...