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A review by sleepey
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
5.0
I read through the trilogy as a teenager & loved it, so now I've picked up the anniversary set & I'm giving it a re-read.
This first instalment has been quoted & adapted so often over the years that I knew all the big jokes by heart, so it's hard to really judge how well it's held up. Some of the smaller ones still got me though ("To business!") & the plot was a fun ride. If I had to give a rating strictly on how much I enjoyed this read-through in isolation, I might say 3.5 or 4.0. But nothing less than a 5-star book could stick in my head like this for 20 years, even to its own detriment.
This first instalment has been quoted & adapted so often over the years that I knew all the big jokes by heart, so it's hard to really judge how well it's held up. Some of the smaller ones still got me though ("To business!") & the plot was a fun ride. If I had to give a rating strictly on how much I enjoyed this read-through in isolation, I might say 3.5 or 4.0. But nothing less than a 5-star book could stick in my head like this for 20 years, even to its own detriment.