Reviews - The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

4.14 AVERAGE

_crizzo's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

deathdavis's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous hopeful slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

mark_friedman's review against another edition

4.0

funny fast-paced

tnleary's review against another edition

1.0

.....what?

abkc1987's review against another edition

4.0

Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an entertaining romp through the galaxy. It's a book I've read several times (first in high school); however, after reading Kurt Vonnegut's most overtly science fiction novel, The Sirens of Titan, it almost felt like a fresh experience. Of course, Vonnegut and Adams are very different writers. Still, the influence of Vonnegut is evident in Adams' seminal novel of nerd culture. The absurdity of the human condition explored in Sirens (something which Vonnegut refuses to take seriously but can't treat as a punchline either) gets a funny and entertaining twist in Adams' work. While I view Sirens as a better novel, it took Adams to turn that absurdity into such an entertaining adventure.