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jelliclepop's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Ratings for each separate book:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 4⭐, a classic tomfoolery adventure
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: 3⭐, imo a bit funnier but I hate Zaphod's guts
Life, the Universe and Everything: 3⭐, lost me a bit in the start with the robots but I loved the part where Arthur gets confronted by the person he consistently keeps killing by accident, that was really funny
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish: ⭐4, my personal favourite but I missed Ford a bit, it was the easiest book for my brain to keep up with.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 4⭐, a classic tomfoolery adventure
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: 3⭐, imo a bit funnier but I hate Zaphod's guts
Life, the Universe and Everything: 3⭐, lost me a bit in the start with the robots but I loved the part where Arthur gets confronted by the person he consistently keeps killing by accident, that was really funny
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish: ⭐4, my personal favourite but I missed Ford a bit, it was the easiest book for my brain to keep up with.
mjthomas43's review against another edition
4.0
Fun to read every other sentence. He plays with words and ideas. But I think it can be best summed up with its own last words: "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind."
magsimum_overdrive's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
purple_sunglasses_101's review
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
epiccgaymer's review
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
ashleighjadereads's review
3.0
I know everyone gives this book four or five stars and I know how iconic it is in the canon of contemporary fiction, but I have to say that my experience of it was disappointing. Don't misunderstand me, I love Douglas Adams' sense of humour and his crazy, inexhaustible imagination as much as the next person, but this book became exasperating at times. The tangentiality of it infuriated me to the point of wanting to scream or rip the pages out (which I would never do to any book), but still the desire was there. I do understand why it's so well loved by others though and I give Adams 5/5 for his wit, humour and being able to sustain such a bizarre story for 590 pages, but at least half of those pages were unnecessary.
siria's review against another edition
2.0
I know that these are considered classics of the genre, and have been massively influential on two decades of genre writing and TV. Yet try as I might when I read them, I just couldn't see why. Creative, yes, imaginative, yes, and occasionally very sharp. But the characters just seemed flat to me, and I couldn't understand why anyone who wasn't a fourteen year old boy would find this more than sporadically amusing.