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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? ??Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.???The Washington Post Book World SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES ? Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker??s Guide to the Galaxy! Nominated as one of America??s best-loved novels by PBS??s The Great American Read It??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… (més)
mcenroeucsb: Good Omens is uneven in writing quality, but the flippant interactions between some of the angels and demons very much reminds me of Douglas Adams.
coliemta: One's more literary and the other more science-fiction-y, but they're both bizarre, hilarious and similar in feel. Most people who like one will enjoy the other.
girlunderglass: before The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - more than 20 years before it - there was THIS book about space travel, time travel, and the "ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything". Adams certainly borrowed a lot from Vonnegut.
souloftherose: Although Neverwhere and The Hitchhiker's Guide (THHG) are different genres (the first is urban fantasy, the second comic science-fiction) I felt there was a lot of similarity between the characters of Richard Mayhew (in Neverwhere) and Arthur Dent (in THHG). Both are a kind of everyman with whom the reader can identify and both embody a certain 'Britishness'. And they're both stonkingly good books by British authors.… (més)
fulner: Probability broach is the story of a 20th century PI who investigates a murder that stumbles him into a place that isn't quite what it appears to be. The broach is equivalent to a Stargate or a demonstrate traveling whale.
aethercowboy: Year Zero is a humorous science fiction book that pokes liberal fun at the current state of music copyright, but also tells a hilarious story in the process about aliens obsessed with Earth music (except for North Korea).
Aquest llibre ja l'havia llegit i en el seu moment tampoc em va agradar especialment. Vaig pensar que l'humor estava bé, però que estava un pèl desfassat. Uns quants anys després, i sabent que el llibre va ser escrit el 1979, trobo que té molt mèrit i realment devia ser un punt i apart en la manera d'entendre l'humor en la ciència-ficció.
La història de l'Arthur Dent, l'últim supervivent d'una Terra destruïda per a fer-hi una carretera espacial, és només una excusa per a mostrar-nos una galeria de personatges i qüestions tan irrellevants com divertides. ( )
Humorous science fiction novels have notoriously limited audiences; they tend to be full of ''in'' jokes understandable only to those who read everything from Jules Verne to Harlan Ellison. The ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' is a delightful exception, being written for anyone who can understand the thrill that might come to a crew of interstellar explorers who discover a mysterious planet, dead for five million years, and then hear on their ''sub etha'' radio a ghostly voice, hollow, reedy, insubstantial: ''Greetings to you. ... This is a recorded announcement, as I'm afraid we're all out at the moment. ...''
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Don't Panic
Dedicatòria
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for Jonny Brock and Clare Gorst and all other Arlingtonians for tea, sympathy, and a sofa
Primeres paraules
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
The house stood on a slight rise just on the edge of the village. (Chapter 1)
Citacions
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Don't Panic
If there's anything more important than my ego around here, I want it caught and shot now.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
For thousands of years, the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be the Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.
Life! Don't talk to me about life.
Darreres paraules
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“Okay, baby, hold tight,” said Zaphod. “We'll take a quick bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.”
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This novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is the first novel of a series of novels, and the series has the same title.
The original version of this story is the first series (first broadcast 1978) of the radio programme written by Adams (the radio programme which also has the title "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"). For this 1979 novel by Adams, only the first four episodes of those six episodes were adapted.
Please do not combine it with the graphic novel adaptation.
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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
Thriller.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? ??Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.???The Washington Post Book World SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES ? Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker??s Guide to the Galaxy! Nominated as one of America??s best-loved novels by PBS??s The Great American Read It??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
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La història de l'Arthur Dent, l'últim supervivent d'una Terra destruïda per a fer-hi una carretera espacial, és només una excusa per a mostrar-nos una galeria de personatges i qüestions tan irrellevants com divertides. (