captain's logue

Title: The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
Author: Douglas Adams
Year of Publication: 1979

During the months of September and October I had the privilege of reading all 5 of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books. They are now in my list top rated books. I want to give Brenda a mention for lending me the books. Thanks Brenda

Now the basic plot to this book is Arthur Dent an earthman has a friend who he had no idea was not from earth. On one fateful day Ford Perfect (his friend) tells him that they have 12 minutes before the world is destroyed so they have to drink beer. As the time approaches a fleet of Vorgon destruction ships arrive and tell the earth that they are going to be blown up to make room for an intergalactic highway. Right before the earth goes Ford and Arthur manage to hitchhike their way onto one of the ships. After listening to some horrible poetry from the vorgons who have discovered there presence on the ship they are ejected into space whereupon they are picked up by incredible odds by none other than a former crush of our main man Arthur in the ship of the guy she went home with instead of Arthur at a party. Arthur and Ford embark on a crazy adventure through the galaxy with Tricia MacMillan (aka Trillion) and Zaphod Beeblebrox to find the ultimate question to life the universe and everything to which the answer was well you’ll find out. Spoiling it would be no fun it made me laugh so hard and as you can hopefully tell from the summary almost everything is crazy in this story.

Something that I found interesting was that Douglas Adams initially wrote the story as a radio series which aired on BBC. One year after that aired, the book was published. The other 4 books from this series were published in 1980 (The restaurant at the end of the universe) 1982 ( Life, the Universe and Everything ) 1984 ( So Long and Thanks For All the Fish ) 1992 ( Mostly Harmless ). Eoin Colfer wrote the fifth sixth book to the series (And Another Thing) to which it was published on October 12th of 2009. Douglas Adams has passed away on May 11th 2001, he was 49.
The biggest thing this book has to offer is its humour. The jokes are zany/wacky but that makes them so much better. It’s the little things like doors with GPP (genuine people personalities) that sigh when they open because they love to open doors for people or a manic depressed robot with a large intelligence who can’t stand life. One of the things books do is tell us something about ourselves, THGTTG tells us about the experience of life and all those little things that happen to us and how we should go with what happens because there just might be an adventure waiting for us. If I didn’t give this book 5 stars I wouldn’t be a sci-fi fan I couldn’t even call myself one.
It is hard to give Douglas Adams and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy enough praise, all I can say is if you are a fan of sci-fi and can appreciate this type of humour then get this book. If you want to get it here are the links to order it online at Amazon.ca,Amazon.com, If you want to get the complete set of books here are the links to them. Amazon.com