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Loading... The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)▾LibraryThing Recommendations   29 22411 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (ut.tecum.loquerer, coliemta)coliemta: One's more literary and the other more science-fiction-y, but they're both bizarre, hilarious and similar in feel. Most people who like one will enjoy the other. 131 The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (mcenroeucsb)mcenroeucsb: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : Science Fiction :: The Color of Magic : Fantasy 153 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett (mcenroeucsb)mcenroeucsb: Good Omens is uneven in writing quality, but the flippant interactions between some of the angels and demons very much reminds me of Douglas Adams. 121 Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers by Grant Naylor (Konran)143 The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (girlunderglass, catfantastic)girlunderglass: before The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - more than 20 years before it - there was THIS book about space travel, time travel, and the "ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything". Adams certainly borrowed a lot from Vonnegut. 101 Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi (mcenroeucsb)1611 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (souloftherose)souloftherose: Although Neverwhere and The Hitchhiker's Guide (THHG) are different genres (the first is urban fantasy, the second comic science-fiction) I felt there was a lot of similarity between the characters of Richard Mayhew (in Neverwhere) and Arthur Dent (in THHG). Both are a kind of everyman with whom the reader can identify and both embody a certain 'Britishness'. And they're both stonkingly good books by British authors.… (more) 127 The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (Nikkles)10 Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (SandraArdnas)77 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (wvlibrarydude)wvlibrarydude: Satire and humor that will split your gut. Read if you want to laugh at humanity. 00 Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams (Waldstein)Waldstein: Douglas Adams's true masterpiece, albeit one of non-fiction. Far wittier and profounder than The Guide. 22 John Dies at the End by David Wong (fundevogel)11 The Sheriff of Yrnameer by Michael Rubens (MyriadBooks)01 Year Zero by Rob Reid (aethercowboy)aethercowboy: Year Zero is a humorous science fiction book that pokes liberal fun at the current state of music copyright, but also tells a hilarious story in the process about aliens obsessed with Earth music (except for North Korea). 01 Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny (WildMaggie)01 Martians, Go Home by Fredric Brown (fougny)01 Alles außer irdisch by Horst Evers (Camaho)02 The Best of Henry Kuttner by Henry Kuttner (SnootyBaronet)02 Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley by Robert Sheckley (SnootyBaronet)
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow star. | |
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Don't Panic If there's anything more important than my ego around here, I want it caught and shot now. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. For thousands of years, the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be the Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog. Life! Don't talk to me about life. | |
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[Book 1 Only] "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is the title of the first in a series of novels (as well as the first in a series of radio dramas). The five works in the series are generally referred to as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or "The Hitchhiker Trilogy", as is the series of radio dramas. Though there are unabridged audio recordings of these works, the radio dramas are considerably different from the printed works. Eoin Colfer, of "Artemis Fowl" fame, contracted in 2008 to write the next volume of the "Trilogy." Do not combine it with the graphic novel adaptation. | |
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Arthur's drab lifestyle/The answer is forty two/What is the question?
(hreilly) Wet, McKenna muttered
A curse up to God;
The clouds laughed. Shall we hitchhike space?
Let's, for to stay here on Earth
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▾Book descriptions Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0345391802, Mass Market Paperback)
Join Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue. The Hitchhiker's Guide is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and British sitcoms. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:16:52 -0400) (see all 9 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions After Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway, Arthur Dent begins to hitch-hike through space. » see all 29 descriptions |
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