The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Literary Classics - Gramercy Books) |
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Douglas Adams
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Pages: 832 (Leather Bound)
ISBN: 0517226952
Pub: Gramercy Books
Pub date: 2005-11-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6299
Reader Reviews:
AWESOME (0/0 people found this helpful)
Seriously, never has british humor ever gone to such heights as this. The storyline is incredibly intriguing, with all sorts of dry humor, stupidly funny overtones, and a serious underlying message, though I've yet to see anyone (myself included) figure out what that message is. If you like british humor, buy it. If not, buy it. If you want a fancy looking book to put on the mantle, buy it. All in all, this book must be purchased by everyone, and even the illiterate should be graced by the story contained within. Buy the book, or Vogons will kill you with bad Poetry!!! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you missed it
'Is that a BIBLE you're reading?' (3/5 people found this helpful)
Content alone renders even five stars somehow unworthy, but leather and gilt?? Surely somebody has been maxing out their Improbability Drive.
Or am I missing the point- is there in fact a niche market for light reading printed in spritual classic format? If so my only dilemma would be which section of the bookcase to put it- next to a mother-of-pearl inlaid Stephen King or perhaps a shagreen bound Bridget Jones?
You can't be a Douglas-fan without having read this one! (2/4 people found this helpful)
Having read this "trilogy" three times over, I can safely say it's totally worth it. The sheer bizarreness and randomness of it is amazing, and just the sort of thing to expect from this genious. It gives a detailed description of the oddities that not only exist in his made up world, but also down here on Earth. I mean, we all know the Earth-version of the Vogons. Or that someone who you think is always after you when in fact it's just a series of coincidences.
So if you've read some of Douglas' other books, or perhaps seen the movie or heard the radio series, this is a worthy read. if you haven't, it's about time you begin!
Great! (18/19 people found this helpful)
This is a fairly nice edition: a tough padded hardback, printed on gilt-egded paper which one might normally expect to see on a bible. This is quite thin, however, and the print shows through slightly from behind each page which is not an altogether bad thing, since the five novels are comprising the hitch-hiker "trilogy" form a volume about two-and-a-half inches thick. Good travel reading, in other words.
(The "story," by the way, is a tale about Zaphod's youth, and is also printed in the sadly unfinished Dirk Gently novel " The Salmon of Doubt.")
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an undisputed classic of modern literature, and this is its definative edition, wrapping up the many incarnations of the Guide. Adams himself states that it is the purpose of the book to "set the record straight, or at least, firmly crooked." This is an excellent book, and and printed in a very nice edition. At the price it's an absolute steal.
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