Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Live in Concert

Pros: So funny and clever, highly original
Cons: Very short

I have been hearing about this book ever since Boy Scouts when we were working on our First Aid merit badge and the instructor told us rule number one should always be Don't Panic! This is one of the most wildly popular and loved science fiction stories ...

Pros: Hilarious, well thought out, colorful metaphors
Cons: None

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a book by Douglas Adams. It is arguably one of the funniest books in the galaxy, and if you are a science fiction buff who has yet to read it, don't panic, just get yourself down to your local bookseller and pick...

Pros: Seems User-friendly, Some Useful Information
Cons: At Times Inaccurate, Can be Dangerous to Travellers

The actual Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is published by the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor and rather difficult to obtain. When inquiring about this book at the book store, be sure to mention the publishing company because if you don’t,...

Pros: Wildly funny
Cons: You might not be able to catch your breath

This book is a scathingly brilliant satire on mankind and it's pitifully silly preoccupation with money and acquisition. It is the story of what happens to one man when he loses everything when in the blink of an eye when the Earth is destroyed by the...

Pros: Humorous look at space travel
Cons: None

Douglas Adams, the author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, passed away earlier this year. Before the book was written, the story was part of a BBC radio program. I was first introduced to this book years ago in high school and since then, I...

Pros: Funny. Intelligent. Insert other superlative words here.
Cons: Douglas Adams is dead now.

I first picked up this book while I was in Junior High. The reason I picked it up was because I had gotten a bunch of old Infocom games from my friend Doug and I was trying to beat the game.

I was getting stuck because I hadn't read...

Pros: It made me smile often.
Cons: It didn't make me laugh. Too sketchy.

Plot: Hmm, this is not easy. Ordinary guy Arthur Dent is trying to fight city hall to save his house from being bulldozed (to make room for a freeway bypass), when his friend, Ford Prefect, convinces him to go to the local pub. Soon after, Arthur and ...

Pros: Everything in space and time
Cons: Not a one

I’ve had the fortune to read a lot of great books in my lifetime. But there is one incredible book that surpasses every other. This divine masterwork contains great wisdom, an amazing style of writing, memorable and quotable characters, and all the ...

Pros: Entertaining, humourous and well-written
Cons: Sounds like it all takes place in England, characters are a bit two-dimensional

Poor old Arthur Dent. He never quite got the hang of Thursday's, and this book starts out on a very bad Thursday for Arthur. Arthur woke up to find bulldozers about to destroy his home to make way for a bypass. Truly, though, that didn't matter all that...

Pros: Wildly inventive; unpredictable; funniest sci-fi you'll ever read
Cons: 2-dimensional characters; empty satire

Calling Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a bit unpredictable is like calling Bill Clinton a bit of a flirt. I can safely say that Adams writes like nobody I’ve read before. He left me shaking my head at times, laughing out...

Pros: Hilarious, yet altogether serious
Cons: Confusing at times, just read carefully

With the passing of Douglas Adams on May 11, 2001, I decided after many years to pick up The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and give it a read. I am certainly glad I did. In this great work, Adams uses humor and biting sarcasm against a...

Pros: Funny, Written well, Speaks Some Truth, A bit Weird
Cons: Nothing!

Arthur Dent was just a normal guy living in England who woke up one Thursday to a normal, or so he thought, day. He was going through his regular morning routine when his house was all of the sudden, put under the wrecking ball to make way for a bypass....

Pros: Absolutely hilarious, spoofs just about everything about everyday life
Cons: ????????

You just have to love a book that starts out with a guy puttering around his house in the early AM, brushing his teeth, getting dressed, taking a shower, and blithely ignoring the batallion of bulldozers gathering around his house. Arthur Dent's house...

Pros: Really funny and exciting
Cons: ?

This is one of the funniest science fiction books I've ever read. It satirizes science fiction cliches while simultaneously using science fiction to satirize other things.


The Plot

Arthur Dent wakes up one morning to...

Pros: Humorous SF that is fun to read
Cons: You'll buy this book for friends

Douglas Adams has produced the first true multi-media winner with "Hitchhiker's Guide". Originally a BBC radio program, then a television program and now multiple books. This is the funniest SF book I have ever read (and re-read)! I was...