The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition by Douglas Adams (MOBI)

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This beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the original publication—with all-new art by award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell. SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • “An astonishing comic writer.”—Neil Gaiman Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadIt’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien.After that, things get much, much worse.With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON’T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.Douglas Adams’s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .

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⭐The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, published in 1979 is a thrilling work of science-fiction and highly entertaining to read. It is a well-written book, with a surplus of thought-provoking ideas. The prose conceals flashes of brilliance and unearths pearls of wisdom. The characters are themselves illuminating, with respect to their sharp perceptions, astute assessments of the situation, quick reactions, and outright candor. You get the impression that the story could very easily have been about a likable group of college students who plan to go on a road trip for spring break, so that they can experience all that life has to offer, let off a little steam, and reduce some stress before final exams. But, alas, the book is more complicated than that. It is more like, what if you know for certain that identifiable flying objects piloted by alien beings are in close proximity, and you have the coded electronic transporter boarding pass device, granting you unlimited access to go anywhere in the universe, right there in your hot little hand. You find that this quite interesting group of individuals demonstrates great camaraderie and superlative rapport in their timely interactions. They provide keen insight, regarding their interpretations of recent events and take on a variety of pertinent subjects. Such as: “what should we do next in order to survive imminent disaster?” Basically, they learn to get along exceedingly well together as they travel through the galaxy in a space ship they’ve somehow managed to commandeer and fly out to distant points as yet unknown. The space ship, incidentally, as it turns out, incorporates the latest and greatest technology ever seen anywhere. Again, the book is cleverly written, of a deeply philosophical nature, and incredibly fun to read. I’d recommend it to anyone. “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” is the next title in the book series. R. Royce saw the note attached to the refrigerator with a small magnetic ornament in the shape of a wild-flower. It read, “We decided to let you sleep in. Be back in a jiffy with your truck of chinchillas.” “Good morning, Royce,” said Cornelius Korn. “Are you ready to travel?” “Where is everyone?” asked Royce. “They went to gas up the vehicles for the trip to Minnesota. As you know we need to deliver four truck-loads of the cute, cuddly critters to the new chinchilla ranch up near the Canadian border,” explained Korn. “I thought we were still in the early planning stages for that assignment,” said Royce. “How’d you get the ball rolling so fast?” “In case you weren’t aware, the democratic process can work miracles in times of great need. The majority voted we go now,” said Korn. “Plus, we have just received a sizable cash advance on our proceeds, the amount we get upon final delivery.” “Apparently, you didn’t need my vote,” said Royce. “Doesn’t matter. I’m all for the plan.” “The Montana rancher sold us all of his chinchillas, but he’s holding on to the minks and sables,” said Korn. “Makes perfect sense to me,” said Royce. You can make very expensive, complete fur coats out of mink or sable. They manufacture the chinchilla fur hides into fashionable leather coat collars, hats, gloves, and accessories. It involves different manufacturing processes entirely.” “Some people keep them as pets, as well,” added Korn. “They’re docile, playful, and curious. Intelligent creatures.” “You say that we’re delivering paired couples of chinchillas to the rancher in Minnesota?” asked Royce. “And we get a share of the profits for the first litters?” “That’s right,” said Korn. “$20 bonus, for each baby chinchilla born upon or after arrival at the destination. $80 each, for the red-haired, striped, or spotted blondes. That’s because they’re rarer breeds and much in demand.” “I can see how this venture might prove profitable,” said Royce. “What do the girls have to say about our travel prospects? “Mostly, they want to experience fine dining along the way, stay in scenic hotels, and go to the International Mall in Minneapolis,” said Korn. “Who can argue with their logic?” “Not me,” said Royce. “Here they are now. Let’s get this show on the road. Shall we?” “We’re all fueled up and ready to roll,” said Raquel Remington. “I’ve been thinking about those chinchillas. Maybe we should do some additional research.” “I agree,” said Alexis Sue Shell. “There may be a big demand for chinchilla oil in the field of medicine.” “Or, for the wild, musky chinchilla scent, in the perfumery industry,” continued Raquel. “We’ll definitely have to look into the matter and make discrete inquiries accordingly,” said Korn, nonchalantly. Which probably meant that he had other sticks in the fire, as well. For all they knew, he might already have sold some of the cute, furry creatures to NASA for their Mission to Mars program. His next detour: The Biology Unit, Life Support Section, Advanced Obscure Scientific Research Corporation, a subsidiary of NASA. It was inevitable, and so conveniently nearby the chinchilla ranch.

⭐Author Douglas Adams brings us the opening book in his five-part trilogy of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. As the book opens we meet Author Dent a human from the planet Earth who doesn’t know it yet but his best friend Ford Prefect is from a little planet near Beetleguice. On one Thursday morning Author sees that the local counsel has sent bulldozers to knock down his home. But Ford is rushing to him to talk with him and take him to the local pub because they’re going to need the mussel relaxant. Once Ford arrives there he talks Author into coming with him but just as they’re settling in for their third pint of bear the bulldozers destroy Author’s home. Ford runs after him and makes sure that he grabs a towel to take with him as the Vogon construction fleet fill the sky. Thus begins the adventure for both Ford and Author that will take them to the recently stolen Heart of Gold starship and to the planet Magrathea where Author will find out about the true origins of Earth and why two little white mice want the question to the ultimate answer of 42. This is a great book and I highly recommend reading the entire five book series.

⭐Some intern managed to replace EVERY word with emphasis in the first chapter of the Kindle edition with the word ‘bulldozer’. Pretty immersion breaking.

⭐Think he will love it.

⭐I can probably count the amount of times I have quit a book without finishing it. Even the worst I’ll try to trudge through.I got 33% of the way through (says Kindle) and had to put it down. It wasn’t funny. There was a loose story though every time the “Hitchhiker’s Guide” info came up I couldn’t even follow what it was talking about.I can’t figure out why it’s on the “100 Books You Must Read List.” Shrug.

⭐I loved this book. The comedy was right up my alley and the story was fun. Even better, the short chapters and rapidly changing topics kept me interested even where my ADHD would have normally cut my reading short. This book is simply superb. I’m only disappointed it ended so soon. I checked the bottom and it said I was 66% through the book, turned a few pages and found that I was at the end. The rest was supplementary information about how the movie based on the book was made, with interviews and stuff. As the movie was a bad representation of the book, I ignored that stuff.

⭐I have read this book many years ago and thought I would give it another read on Kindle. If you are a fan of British humor, this book should be required reading. The story is preposterous, and it is made even better with our hero handling every situation with typical British “carry on” attitude. I am now off to read the second installment.

⭐I have always struggled with this book. I was 13 when it came out. A big fan of Monty Python, NTNN everyone was reading it and I tried but failed to get past… well, wherever it was at the time.Curiously I know all the names of the characters and their peccadilloes and could chat with friends about them knowingly sharing the in-jokes of a dedicated reader.I tried again in my 30s thinking that I’d better fill in the gaps, but again failed.I’ve just finished it after the third try. Lucky? Not sure. I can still see why I could not make progress in the past as it was just as hard to pick up this time around. I have read four books since the beginning of the year and this was the hardest.Why didn’t you I get on with this book? It’s not that I don’t embrace silly, or there weren’t chuckle moments but after much deep thought, the answer to the question has to be: ‘I can’t put my finger on it.’Don’t let that put you off.

⭐Yeah, I’m not the intended audience for this book, with a male dominanted cast in space I was never going to be able to relate.I’d heard great things but I couldn’t get into it, my mind kept drifting, i looked for the humor but couldn’t find it (was it where the British guy wanted a cup of tea on a spaceship?).It just didn’t hold my attention im afraid which is a shame as its such a cult classic.

⭐Didn’t enjoy this book at all. Two stars for the original concept only. The writing style and language seems forced and contrived which only serves to override any empathy that the reader may have had for the characters. This equates to a lack of reliability and I found I just didnt care what happened to them the further I read on. The humour has dated badly and it appears to be written for teenagers who want to learn how to read lengthly/ pointless made up words in a desparate attempt to sound more intelligent. Thanks but no thanks, I’ll stick to Red Dwarf!

⭐This review is for the current (2017) ebook edition.A splendidly funny and silly book, quite a successful novelisation of the Radio Series.Note that the extracts from the archives come right at the end of Chapter 35, and are interesting, especially the fax from Douglas to the American script editor, explaining why some things shouldn’t be changed. For some reason, they’re not listed in the table of contents.

⭐Perhaps I’m rating this book only with three stars out of five only because of my age since I’m currently 36 and I believe I should have read this book when I was about 15 to 25 at the most so I could properly and fully appreciate it.Most of it sounded, in my head, like extremely well improvised, composed and delivered gibberish and not much more than that.To be absolutely fair, this might simply not be my type of humor, hence my not finding it truly funny or amusing, although there were about three to five at the most instances throughout the book that did instigate that LOL outburst.All in all, it is a pretty decent read. Particularly for the ages around 20 or less.However, specifically with regards to all the hype surrounding this book, I, personally, couldn’t possibly justify it.

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