The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts - Douglas Adams

Time to set the record straight, these books have been seen as having cult status, mostly due to the frankly awful television adaptations and Hollywood film which simply could not do justice to such an intricate, compelling creation which Douglas Adams has crafted. The genre would be considered science fiction/comedy, and despite this not being a mainstream genre so to speak, it actually works brilliantly. Its intelligent, subtle and often dark humour. Think Black Adder (the BBC television series starring Rowan Atkinson) in space. Essentially the story goes that Arthur Dent is about to lose his house to make way for a new by-pass, when un-expectantly aliens ...  Read the complete review

---Finally a short intro--- Merry Tuesday and a Happy new tax year to you all! Spring is upon us! The weather has gotten better (given, not by much), rabbits are everywhere and people are smiling! I want to kick them all in the face. Instead of doing this, I decided to retreat into a book and not come out till everyone looked appropriately miserable again. ---It's the end of the world as we know it--- If you are up on your pop culture, you will know that the meaning of life is 42. If you are well read, you will know that this is, in fact, not the case. If you don't have a clue what I'm talking about, then you are neither up on your pop ...  Read the complete review