The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is ridiculous and
sublime.
A short time after reading the classic The Hobbit for the
first time, I just finished Douglas Adams’ famous The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy. It’s odd, witty, surprising, quite compelling and rather short.
Coming in at just over 150 pages, it’s not a huge tome, but
it is an engaging one, following the hapless Arthur Dent as he lurches from one
bypass disaster to another, ably assisted by his alien friend Ford Prefect. It’s
quite hard to describe events beyond that without spoiling things, but suffice
to say the pace is swift, the writing is charming, the strange, surreal sense
of humour is fantastic, and it’s really good.
So give it a read, if you haven’t already.
Thaddeus
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