A review by ashleighjadereads
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams

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.