The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[Soybomb]

So what do you guys think of this book? I've always heard its so great and the guy died a week or two ago and I saw a copy at borders....anyway I've read a couple chapters already and just don't get the humor so far. Its odd thats for sure, but its not the clever laugh riot it was made out to be. What do you think about it? Do I just need to read more of it?

 

[piku]

I rarely laughed out loud while reading it, but the fact that I finished it shows I liked it.

Alot of the humor was more of a smile and appreciate than laugh out loud type.

 

[shiner]

Great book...I laughed out loud several times. To me the humor is along the same lines of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy.

 

[Whisper]

Douglas Adams's brand of humor is right in line with mine, so I loved the entire Guide series...heck, I even bought one of those compo-collection type books.

 

[nd]

Come on, you didn't even laugh at the digital watch part?

 

[TuffGuy]

how can you not like the bulldozer scene?

 

[Whisper]

One of my favorites is the chapter about the whale. Poor guy...

Though I must say that the gurglingly-happy robot in the later books is an award-winner

 

[randomlinh]

dang nab it.. i read it too long ago.. i don't remember it much i need to go read it again.

 

[Thanatopsis]

<< One of my favorites is the chapter about the whale. Poor guy...

Though I must say that the gurglingly-happy robot in the later books is an award-winner >>



The better part is when Prefect meets the whale in another life, in either the last book or the second to last book. He's killed him so many times... ROTFL, now that was funny. You'd know what I mean if you've read that far.

 

[prontospyder]

Hitchhiker was a good book....the 2 books after that got weirder and weirder...

 

[Soybomb]

I bought like &quot;the ultimate hitchhikers guide&quot; or something, it contains like 5 or 6 books I guess. I figure I'll read them unless they bore me to tears. I'm not to anything with a watch yet. I didn't really laugh at the bulldozer scene, it had some humor and I chuckled...but thats about it Like I said maybe I just need more time with it

 

[layne151]

It starts off slow, you need to acclimate yourself to its storyline, after the first 100 pages you really get into it. My personal favorite is the alien who flies around the universe insulting everyone!

 

[Valhalla1]

give it more time..


its a funny as hell series of books, IMO anyway.

&quot;weird geekish&quot; kinda funny.

 

[TuffGuy]

douglas adams should've teamed up with mel brooks to make a movie...

 

[Soybomb]

I guess now would be a bad time to mention that outside of young frankenstein there aren't many mel brooks movies I really love

 

[chansen]

Douglas Adams is not an acquired taste. You either love him more than your own towel, or you just don't get it. There is very little grey area.

Personnaly, I still can't help laughing out loud at the Preface to the first book:



<< Deep in the uncharted backwaters of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this sun at a distance of XXX million miles is a tiny little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still believe digital watches are a pretty neat idea... >>



I know that's not exact, but it's still not bad for a guy who hasn't read the book for two years or so.

Also, it is not science-fiction. Douglas Adams is (sorry, was) not a science-fiction author. If your looking for sf, move along.

If I may, let me suggest Douglas' oft-overlooked non-fiction offering, Last Chance to See. A wholly remarkable book about Douglas' romps through several descriptions of wilderness with zologist friend Mark Carwardine, looking for examples of almost-extinct animals and birds.

BTW, don't give up on HHGTTG until you get to the sperm whale. If you don't laugh at that, be sure that the rest of Douglas Adams' faithful will have given up on you.

Regards,
Craig

 

[chansen]

Mel Brooks?!? Not similar styles at all. Not that Mel is not funny - he is. But Mel is so very over-the-top, and Douglas' stuff is much more subtle. As much as I shall miss the Douglas Adams projects that could have been, that is one of them.

Regards,
Craig

 

[TuffGuy]

just for that, you get a 1...

how can you not like men in tights, spaceballs, or history of the world?

 

[Beowolf]

<< The better part is when Prefect meets the whale in another life, in either the last book or the second to last book. He's killed him so many times >>

ummmmm.....hate to burst your bubble, but Prefect didn't meet the whale in another life, Arthur Dent does. And remember, if your going to read the first book, you have to read the other four to get the whole story line.

 

[Soybomb]

Men in tights....you've gotta be kidding me, water world was perhaps better than that Okay I'm exaggerating but still

 

[TuffGuy]

you cannot tell me that you didn't like the sword scene where he's wooing her behind the sheets? or the part where he declares that he's got the british accent.

alright, so maybe i like stupid-funny movies.

 

[Soybomb]

I love stupid movies, but I'm more monty pythonesque and men in tights just wasn't the same for me

 

[TuffGuy]

yeah, they are definitely not in the same league. what about benny hill?

 

[LordMaul]

Hehehehehehehe...

GREAT book, IMGO.(In My Great Opinion)

I love it how he plays on all the things men believe/take for normal...

Phunnier than hellz.

 

[Idiot56209]

It took me a while to get the ball rolling into reading the books, but once I hit the part of the first book where they got off of the Vogon ship and into the path of the ship with the High Probablility warp drive, I was hooked.

Keep reading. It IS a classic.









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