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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

Douglas Adams

Others: Mostly positive

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months. The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia.

ISBN:
9781399617246
Length:
215 pages

Genres: science fiction

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Bookpilled
Mixed

I found very middling another big classic that I just it just isn't for me I don't really think it's all that funny there's a few inventive ideas in it I like the improbability drive if I remember that correctly but I thought that the humor fell flat

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TheShadesofOrange
Not a fan

I started reading it I thought it was super funny at the beginning it's just this like wacky British humor and it's just off the wall but as I continued on I start to lose interest in it and I think it was the fact that there was nothing but the humor in the book

booksandquills
Loved it

once you get to the bit with the whale I really think that it just kind of grabs you and you're in you're in it you get the humor it's just so quirky and wonderful and I definitely want to read the other ones in the series now