The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic... (read more)

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Shauna T
  • Rated 5 stars

Oh my FREAKING GOD, we have the entire trilogy in five parts at my library in audio AS READ BY THE AUTHOR! Seriously, hearing Douglas Adams read his own work is an experience than can only be matched by the feeling of drinking a pan-galactic gargle blaster.


I put this audiobook in the Seniors' Deposit Collections at work a few months ago, and it just came back out. I grabbed it for myself before it even went on the shelves, but in honesty I don't think it had ever been out of...

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  • Rated 4.271534 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • Zaire

    zaire said:

    I loved this book soooo much! It had me on the ground I was laughing so hard.

    The movie gave it a bad name.

    posted 13 days ago
  • Julia

    julia said:

    Well I absolutly LOVED this series! Adams is one of my favorites. I tried to get one of my friends to read it, but she didnt get it =(

    posted 13 days ago
  • Kya

    kya said:

    I do not know what else can be said, other than the fact I love this book beyond the far reaches of any Galaxy. It's brilliant!

    posted Wednesday, June 18 2008
  • Lachie

    lachie said:

    Milton, completely agree, absolutely amazing. The funniest series of all time. I think I read the first one in one sitting and have probably re-read it a dozen times since in the ten years between now and then.

    posted Tuesday, June 10 2008
  • Milton A

    milton a said:

    I can't imagine how I could have lived before reading this book. It is at the same time the smartest series of books I've ever read and the funniest. It is much above 5 stars

    posted Friday, February 29 2008
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