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Douglas Adams |
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Professional Reviews
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Jonas, Gerald, New York Times Book Review: "[T]he novel...remains, without a doubt, the most cheerful book about the total destruction of Earth and its entire population minus one ever written." |
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Format: Hardcover, 215
Publisher: Harmony Books (August 01, 2004)
Measurements: 7"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.34 lbs.
ISBN: 9781400052929 |
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First Line
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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 sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." |
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How shall we begin?<br><br>This is the story of a book called<i> The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</i>—not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.<br><br>or<br><br>This is the story of <b>The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</b>, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.<br><br>or<br><br>This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, secnds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with t |
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