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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

(Part of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (#1) Series and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series)

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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.

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Rated 3 stars
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Could have used more 42s…

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Rated 5 stars
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.

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Rated 5 stars
Great condition and fast shipping

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

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Rated 5 stars
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...

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Rated 4 stars
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...

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