Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Series - Douglas Adams in general

There are funny books and there are science fiction books, but rarely has any author managed to write a successful comic science fiction novel that has been as widely read as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It has been adapted as a radio series, a TV series, numerous cassettes and CDs, and even a computer game, all the while growing ever more popular as readers old and young travel through the exciting worlds and planet systems of Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect. This review is therefore a fitting memorial to the author Douglas Adams who, as some readers will have heard, died of a heart attack six days ago, aged 49. The news will surely be a huge disappointment ...  Read the complete review

I was very saddened by the death of Douglas Adams, as a huge fan of his books. My favourite is of course The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I have read this book so many times I find myself chuckling before I get to a funny part, just because I know what is going to happen! The book revolves around a man named Arthur Dent who lives on Earth, oblivious to the fact his best friend is an alien. Ford Prefect, his best friend, rescues Arthur when the Earth is demolished to make way for a hypergalactic bypass. Well, these things happen. There begins Arthurs adventures around the universe. The afore mentioned guide is an electronic book (a kind of enyclopedia) about ...  Read the complete review

I wouldn't say Douglas Adams was a hero of mine but I love the way he wrote and the ideas he came up with, it wasn't until his death in may 2001 that it really came home to me of how much a part he played in my life, he will be very missed. The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy is a humorous science fiction series, one of the first of its kind, but unlike shows such a Red Dwarf and 3rd Rock From The Sun, its genuine science fiction - which is also funny, its full of extremely funny lines/jokes/scenes, there are so many ideas crammed into each line that's its mind blowing, every line has an original idea that you could base a new story upon. ...  Read the complete review

This book series will no doubt find even more fans following Adams' untimely death before at 49. Here is a series that deserves the universal praise it seems to attract from impoverished students and Radio 4 debators alike :). Personally, I'm glad I got the chance to experience Adams' work before his death, as I feel that with a living author, your perception of the quality of the work does change, no matter how objective you are about things. I can say honestly that the Hitchiker's Guide sprang from a brilliant mind, and that isn't just because the guy recently passed away, but because of the quality of his work :). I saw the television ...  Read the complete review

Ah yes, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. One of the strangest books I've ever read, but also one of the best. The characters and their adventures are good enough, but the most amazing thing about the book, and the whole series, is the way that Douglas Adams adds background to the scenes by going off on tangents to tell you different stories. The basic plot is that an alien race wanted to find out the answer to life, the universe and everything, so they built a computer to find it out. The computer spent millions of years calculating and computing before telling the descendants of its creators that the answer was, indeed, 42. They were ...  Read the complete review