Resumo de The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy is full of Fiction! Fun ! Wierd ! Absurd! Surreal! Bizzare! ------ in all an amazing Adam Douglas work.

Arthur Dent is an average English guy, always behind the rest of the world.

One fine Thursday, he wakes up to his disarray, only to find that his house is about to be knocked down to build a road.

His friend, Ford Prefect, takes him to a pub and they both get drunk.

Arthur discovers that his friend is in fact an alien. Not only is he an alien, but he's also a reporter. Not only is he a reporter, but he also works for what is the most popular book in the Universe, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" . He accidentally got stranded on Earth while working on its entry for the book.

Ford Perfect then explains the world is about to end. A group of aliens, called Vogons, has been enlisted to destroy the Earth to make room for an interstellar express route. And they are really a hurting lot.

But interestingly, just before a Vogon constructor fleet destroys the Earth, these two amazing characters hitchhike their way off the planet. The fun starts here; Unfortunately for the two poor guys, the Vogons discover their presence on board.

In addition to the wrath of the Vogons, they encounter adventure, adversity, and a diverse array of beings and objects.

After one of the most interesting torture forms in fiction (the two prisoners are forced to listen the bad poetry of the Vogon's captain), our heroes are pitched out of the airlock and into open space. Here they are rescued at a ridiculously high improbability rate. One of the rescuers is an old friend of Ford Prefect's (Mr.Perfect?s friend surely has to be a bit imperfect. Watch the movie or read the book.) The other is a girl Arthur once tried to pick up at a party. Also along for the ride are a chronically depressed robot and a pair of white Earth mice.

Poor Arthur is pitched into a long, very strange journey that ends up answering questions he never wanted to ask. All along he struggles to keep up with his new companions, never quite understanding or fitting in to any given situation. All he has to hold onto are the nearly normal Earth girl, his desperate attempts to teach the ship's computer how to make a decent cup of tea and the cover of Ford's copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide, which reads "DON'T PANIC."

And then things get really weird . . .

There are really no two ways to say this. Hitchhiker's Guide is just a fun book. Adams has a loose narrative style that makes the most of his odd cast of characters and their bizarre doings. He makes us really feel for the plodding Arthur Dent (who most would probably find fairly boring in real life). We quickly begin to root for him to make the best of his situation, or to at least finally comprehend what's happened to his orderly life.

Adams has a quirky sense of humor that seems to come partly from his British origins and partly from his willingness to gain sheer absurdity and cling to it for all its worth. Which, in his capable hands, is quite a bit. If you're looking for fun, laughs and very little long-term sense, Hitchhiker's Guide is definitely the book for you.

The title The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is often abbreviated as "HHG," "HHGG," "HHGTTG," "HG2G," or "H2G2." The series is also often referred to as "The Hitchhiker's Guide," "Hitchhiker's," or simply "The Guide."

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