The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
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My Review
When Arthur Dent wakes up on Thursday morning and goes to the bathroom to shave the biggest thing on his mind is "Yellow". What he doesn't realise is that there's something more threatening than the bulldozer about to demolish his house to make way for a bypass.
God, I love this book. It is witty and clever and funny. The characters and concepts are great. There are dozens of quotable quotes. Douglas Adams writing is concise. He has the reader laughing out loud on almost every page.
The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, No. 1)
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“If you thought you were having a bad day, that's nothing compared to the one Arthur Dent is having.”
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Fetching blurbs now... please stand byLove it! Great read.
Tiggered says:
I rediscovered Douglas Adams only recently and gulped down almost all of his books - one of my favourites!
Posted January 02, 2012
ElleDeeEsse says:
Sunday afternoons in the late seventies were incomplete without a seesion of the BBC radio's instalment of 'A Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy'
Posted October 28, 2009
Sorry, not my cup of tea.
The best line ever:
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Douglas Adams's official site
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Zaphod:
If there's anything bigger than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide Movie Poster
This is the poster for the second movie which was made of the book. Sadly it lacked reference to The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
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The book:
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.
For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?
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- You know when I saw this lens, it made me think about the movie and that Squidoo guide put together by Adez. It's time I took another look at it. Interesting stuff.
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- Thanks for the fish.
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science_fiction_novels_cyberpunk
Nov 3, 2009 @ 9:56 am | delete
- I never read this book. It looks both funny and interesting.
Thank you for your excellent lens! 5*
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grannysage
Oct 30, 2009 @ 6:52 pm | delete
- I just can't get into it. I makes no sense to me but my husband loves it. Don't forget to mention the Answer is 42.
This lens looks fantastic. Very clean and crisp and the quotes are great.
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