The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Reviews

In my opinion this is a good book, it took me longer that usal to get into but once i did, i wasnt disappointed. I havent seen the film yet but i will definately recommend it to get a wider look at the book. overall its a good audiobook. this audio book by douglas adams is compeling. this is guys trying to find the knowledge in the universe. ...  Read the complete review

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been incarnated, and indeed reincarnated, in many, many forms over the years. It kicked off as a quirky BBC Radio show which ran for two series. Douglas Adams then brought his humorous science fiction adventures to television, print, stage and the "big screen". Each time the plot has ...  Read the complete review

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest books I have ever read. It manages to go off at tangents and bring you back to the main story very well, without making you think it has distracted you too much from what is going on... mainly because the whole thing is absurd and the asides just lend to the absurdity of the whole ...  Read the complete review

This is an absolute classic! I won't bother to summarise the plot as that's clearly been done already, but I would like to take a little trip down Memory Lane and wax lyrical about this masterpiece! My first introduction to Douglas Adams was when a school-friend loaned me a copy of The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (with a banana stain on ...  Read the complete review

?People of Earth, your attention please. This is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Plans for development of the outlying regions of the galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system, and regrettably your planet is scheduled for ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has long been regarded as a comedy classic and a milestone in science fiction writing, and has spawned a whole host of copycat books, most of which failed miserably to live up to the original and best. The beauty of it lies in the originality of the idea, even if some of the jokes try to be a little ...  Read the complete review

it is not 1 to miss out on everyone hould be reading this book or should have reed it - Advantages: very funny, witty - Disadvantages: non

I did it all backwards - saw the TV series, then read the books and, finally, heard the radio series. OK, I was only 9 when the radio series was first broadcast so I guess I can be forgiven. Elements of all three versions appear dated now, causing some people who didn't catch them first time round to wonder what all the fuss is about. The fuss ...  Read the complete review

This is the kind of book that changes lives, that influences to the point of taking over your life. It lives you just on the brink of insanity, and if you don't come out of it confused, you did a hell of a lot better than me. The story starts off with the lead character Arthur Dent waking up one Thursday. The day doesn't start ...  Read the complete review

FIT THE FIRST This is my opinion of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, one of the most remarkable books ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of the Milky Way. It was written by a 6 foot 5 ape descendant named Douglas Adams, although originally he no more knew that his book was going to be a publishing sensation ...  Read the complete review

If Pratchett had been published 1st then Hitchhiker would never have stuck out his thumb and been discovered. The quote came from a critics recommendation on one of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, Terry Pratchett being the current king of the comic sci-fi / fantasy novel an honour previously accorded to Douglas Adams. It was ...  Read the complete review

The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy is an amazing book, so amazing in fact, that it reveals the answer to life, the universe and everything. It doesn’t start off so spectacularly though. We meet the main character, Arthur Dent in his not very remarkable house. He doesn’t seem to realise that his house is about to be demolished ...  Read the complete review

I think that everyone must have been shocked to hear of the death of the man, who in my opinion, is the greated science fiction writer of our generation. The HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy started off life as a radio script, and has gone through many different changes, but i won't go into those as they have been covered in far ...  Read the complete review

The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy- the book that started as a radio play and ended up as a trilogoy in five parts, have to be one of the most hysterical books ever written. Imagine the end of the world. Imagine chaos. Imagine confusion and mulitply this by infinity. In the middle of this you can put a manic depressive robot, an ...  Read the complete review

I was first introduced to The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy (from now on known as THHGTTG) through the radio version which my Dad had bought and listened to, I really enjoyed it at the time but never really thought about buying the book. Years later I saw the hardback edition containing the entire 5 books (I didn't even realise there were ...  Read the complete review

Having heard rave reviews from friends, I decided to read Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, and much more the wiser for doing so. Unfortunately, I won't be able to read any new works by Adams due to his untimely and sudden death last week. However, I would highly recommend this book, even to those of you not ...  Read the complete review

I was very saddened by the recent death of Douglas Adams, as a huge fan of his books. My favourtie 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 ...  Read the complete review

Douglas Adam’s witty and humorous writing style accompanied by an original and fast-moving plot makes ‘The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ one of the best and funniest books I have ever read. The books starts with a pretty average man called Arthur Dent, who wakes up one morning with a hangover only to discover ...  Read the complete review

** I've just seen the tragic announcement that Douglas Adams has died after a heart attack at the criminally young age of 49. I love the guy's writing and this is a very real loss to the literary world. An extraordinary talent cut brutally short. God bless you, Douglas, you've given me some real laughs, fun and enjoyment with your ...  Read the complete review