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

This is the first part of the original four book series (it was finished later with Mostly Harmless), and the plot will be familiar to those people who have seen the TV series. Arthur Dent is a normal, if slightly nervous, Englishman who is rescued from Earth by his friend Ford Prefect before it is destroyed. The aggressors have been hired to ...  Read the complete review

I have never listened to the radio show, or watched the TV program, I have only read the five books that make up the fantastic Trilogy that is The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. This does of course lead to arguements about how to pronounce planet names et cetera with my friends. Anyway, this book remains witty and a clasic ...  Read the complete review

Its been a while since i read this, and i fondly remember the tv series. But i do remember this book, and its follow ups well. A great story with some really funny parts to it. All about a man who discovers the world is to be destroyed to make way for an interstellar bypass, he is rescued by an alien and together they travel the glaxy along with ...  Read the complete review

This is a timeless book by Douglas Adams,the book is as funny to read today as it was twenty odd years ago. Arthur Dent just wants a pint with his curious pal Ford Prefect, but someone wants to knock down his cottage to build a bypass, curiously enough, on another world light years away, a decision was made to knock down the earth for the same ...  Read the complete review