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Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis

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4.15 AVERAGE

loveblueto's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

ceecee's review against another edition

4.0

"It is an important and popular fact that things are not what they seem.

I think a lot of what the book is, hinges on that. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cleverly explores ideas which spring from the question, what if things are not what we think they are? What if the earth was really a computer, and that humans are not the most intelligent beings on earth, and that the mice we experiment on are really experimenting on us? "Hah!" the mice will exclaim. "The joke's on you!"
The Universe is such a vast and complex thing literally anything is possible.

This is one of the things I like about this book. The play on words is quite an adept way of presenting ideas, which, in an off-hand, random and joking manner actually convey a deeper thought.

Most of you have heard of or seen the film version of this. What do you mean, you haven't? It stars Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel, and Alan Rickman's voice is in there, too! Watch it! I, for one, enjoyed the movie, and loved the supercomputer Deep Thought, even Marvin the Paranoid Android.

The novel might seem disjointed and simple at times, because it's trying to adapt the original radio series. At times I thought the jokes irresistibly funny, at times the jokes just went over my head. At times it reminded me of the Monty Python and the Holy Grail movie. I'll chalk it off as some sort of trademark British humor.

3.5 - 4 stars. I loved the ideas in this book, whether or not I agreed with them. I didn't really enjoy the writing style, but I did enjoy the thought behind it. If you've ever wondered about Life, the Universe, and Everything, you might want to check out The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You might never look at the number 42 the same way again.

gabriella_k's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mikeybigdick69's review against another edition

4.5

very lovely and funny. trillian was my favourite. bit disjointed but that would come from adaptation from radio show form.

katrindavidson's review against another edition

5.0

This is my fiancées favourite book ( desert island disc) and he asked me to read it with him. I thought It immensely Funny and the time spent on it was due to busyness rather than enjoyment.

dendrophilebookdragon's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

mafawcett617's review against another edition

4.0

Not a bad book at all.

It's amazing how topical and current this book is, for being written in 1979. It still speaks to how absolutely inept we are as a species, and in the same breath can comment on how magnificent we are in relation to the universe around us.

It held my attention, it was witty and humorous. I can see myself potentially reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (book #2) if I'm itching for more comedic sci-fi.

Two hitchhiker thumbs up!