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

I read this book because it was recommended to me by my dad who said that he had read it and enjoyed it. After reading the first few pages of ot I was immediatly hooked and began to read it at every opportunity I could grab until I had finished it. It is a very VERY funny book with many different levels of humour making it ...  Read the complete review

Ih yes, there's no doubt in my mind, none whatsoever, this time it's definitely all the fault of Waterstones. Now I don't mean to keep blaming other people for my problems, but there are sometimes when blame is inescapable, and this is one of those times! You might rightly wonder what the devil I'm talking about, sometimes I do ...  Read the complete review

I love hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy. I read the book saw the TV series from many moons ago then got the radio play. Listen the radio play is all I can say. It is the best. Even better the TV series. The story starts with the one of the main characters Arthur Dent waking up one day to find that some one wants to bulldoze his house ...  Read the complete review

My mum always used to tell me about a book she read called "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" so one day at a boot market I found a copy and bought it. Upon reading the first few chapters I was in stitches. Sometimes I had to read paragraphs over again but it was worth it. I read through the first one in a matter of days and ...  Read the complete review

My first encounter with HHGttG was when I saw the TV series on BBC2 in the mid 1980s. I thought it was hilarious, and spurred on by friends who assured me the books were even funnier I purchased and read them. And it's true - the books are even better than the TV show! Adams has created a post-Star Wars galaxy full of weird and ...  Read the complete review

I have read this book 4 times, it is without any doubt, one of the greatest books ever written. It icludes 5 main characters, a man, a woman, a guy who's not really from Gilford, but from a small planet just outside Beetlejuice, his semi-cousin, who has two heads and three arms, and a paranoid robot. Makes for a rather fantastic book, that ...  Read the complete review

Douglas Adams – what a guy – he is in my opinion a literary genius! Look at it this way, who else could come up with the answer to the great question of ‘Life the Universe and Everything’ and then go on to say it is 42! So – we have the answer – now all we need is the question. I have read this book ...  Read the complete review

A friend made me read the 4part trilogy of The Hitchhikers... while at secondary school. I read it again not long after starting college and had a couple of friends taking the piss out of me for it. Now one of them is completely hooked on the book and comes into every lecture talking about how great it is. So come on people, get your friends - no ...  Read the complete review

This is a book about a book. That book is called the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." It is a book for people who happen to find themselves lost and hitchhiking through the stars. It's basically a humungo encyclopedia that's so big they need to put it in hand-held computers. When the last human finds out that his ...  Read the complete review

Hailed as a classic for a long time but does everyone know where it started? It began as a radio play and works best as that. The book is good as well but not as good as the radio play. The book is completely bonkers and surreal. It isn’t as hilarious as you may have been led to believe but still remains a landmark in comic science fiction. ...  Read the complete review

Douglas Adams was one of the first writers to combine side-splitting humour with Sci-Fi and get away with it. Hitch-hiker still sells well and for good reason. His imagination and humour is infectious throughout this book, the plot of which is very hard to explain, let's just say the Earth is destroyed and the last remaining ...  Read the complete review

The Hitch Hikers Guide To the Galaxy is one of the best pieces of sci fi comedy in existence. Douglas Adams is uniquely hilarious, combining incredible ideas with human idiosyncracies, and therefore ridiculing both in as amusing a way as is possible. This is utterly classic stuff, not only incredibly funny but also indicative of a brain capable of ...  Read the complete review

A review by Marvin the Paranoid Android. I’d like to tell you all what a pleasure, and thrill it was to read this book…. But I can’t, my lying circuits are out of commission at the moment. All those awful humans gallivanting about in fancy spaceships, whilst me, with a brain the size of a planet, is left to do ...  Read the complete review

A cult book, based on a cult BBC radio series, soon to spawn a cult film to follow up on a cult TV series. Shame about the quality. That's a bit unfair, actually. This book, as well as it's line of sequels, is in places writhe-on-the-floor funny, and it's nothing if not unpredictable. But it *is* comedy, not science fiction. I ...  Read the complete review

I was shocked when I heard Douglas Adams had died, he will always live on in his comedy however. This article is therefore not written in the past tense. Douglas Adams is a visionary. In the late seventies he wrote a radio play, which later became a novel, a TV series, and possibly a film. This play was called the Hitch Hikers Guide to ...  Read the complete review

This is how it goes, you will buy Hitch Hiker's Guide. Find it immensly intellectual and funny, find yourself thinking about every little bit of it while you read. Then you will go out and buy the the next book, and do the same thing. You will follow this process till you've gone through all the 5 books in the increasingly ...  Read the complete review

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is a fantasticly entertaining book to read. Where Douglas Adams gets his ideas from I'll never know. This is the first book in a series of four and it introduces us to the character of Arthur Dent, the human lead in this wonderful book. Chapter One of this book is probably one of the funniest ...  Read the complete review

this has got to be one the best books ever written. it is so origianl and funny and so are the rest of the books in the series. I laughed at every page and found it almost impossible to put the book down once i had began reading it. It is the best of the series and douglas adams must be a true genius to have written this book. It is about a ...  Read the complete review

This has to be the greatest book I have ever read! I remember being told about the TV program but never actually having time to sit down and watch it..(But found time to read!!). The great thing about books rather than TV is that you can put it down to do somthing else...Or nor as the case was with this one. I had to be shouted at ...  Read the complete review

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is the granddaddy of all comic sci-fi and fantasy. Before there was Pratchett, before there was Tom Holt, before there was Robert Rankin..... It deals with the adventures of one Arthur Dent, who wakes up one day to find that earth is to be cleared away to make room for a bypass. Fortunately his best ...  Read the complete review