What's neat about this book is that Douglas Adams never intended for it to be a book, and he says in a forward for the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he hated writing the book. There's a lot of humorous redundancy in it, as well as life lessons and other things to contemplate hidden between the hilarious lines. I've read this probably 42 times. :P

Warning! This story is filled with British Humor, but there are mice, dolphins, and other sorts of great things in this story. Besides that, narrowly escaping the death and destruction of the earth to make room for an intergalactic highway, englishman Arthur Dent and his alien friend Ford Prefect, from a small moon near Betelgeuse, go on a wild adventure across time and space. They are read Vogon poetry which is considered a terrible torture, and they are almost sucked out of an air lock into the universe. They then sneak on board of a vast ship in outer space. Then after many near death experiences they end up narrowly escaping near the end of each chapter. Throughout the novel they join forces with, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the ex-president of the galaxy, Trillian the only other surviving earthling, and a depressed robot named Marvin to search for the answer to the question of the meaning of life. This answer may have been hidden on the recently demolished earth. I would reccomend this book for young teens and people who can enjoy British humor. This novel may also fit well with Science-Fiction lovers. This novel is a fairly easy read, but if you have strict feelings for religion then this novel may offend you in some ways. There was also a movie that was re-made in 2005 which was a fairly good representation of most of the novel.

This book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a great book for readers who don't mind random thoughts thrown into their read. It starts off with Arthur Dent, an average Earthling, and his alien friend, Ford Prefect, narrowly escaping the destruction of planet Earth. The planet is destroyed by an angry alien race known as the Vogons and they escape by hitching a ride on one of the Vogon destroyer ships. After being tortured by some Vogon poetry, Arthur and Ford are shot into the vaccuum of space to their probable death. But the most improbable of things happen and they are rescued by the Heart of Gold spaceship. I think this book is an easy read and can be a great book to try and tackle when you have a free weekend. As long as you can deal with some of Douglas Adams' random interjections and side stories you will be fine. Besides that there is a lot of humor and the author always keeps you thinking every single chapter. It is definitely a page turner. There was a remake of the movie in 2005 and i recommend watching that after you read the book.

The above is a quote from the book, and I'll bet that there is not a book funnier anywhere!

Easily one of my favorite books. If you are literate and enjoy humor (so most of you), this should be one of the first books you read in preparation for college.

The Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy is a wacky adventure about Aurther, Ford, Trillian, and Zaphod. Aurther starts out the day with no idea whatsoever that that day the earth would be destroyed by a race known as the Vogons. Thanks to his close friend FOrd, they hitchhike onto the vogon spaceship and set off into their universal adventure. This book is crazy, and the humor can sometimes be "stupid" at times, but overall its a fun read. If you've seem any Monty Python, some of the humor is similar. Lots of random events happen and sometimes you can't fully understand why things are happening, they just do. All in all, i would recommend this book as a fun light-hearted read, not at all deep and thought-provoking, just silly and a little crazy.

This book taught me that there were other smart but markedly weird people like me out there and it was OK to be so. I'm glad I got to say that to DNA before he died.