The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
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Arthur Dent is a perfectly normal
Englishman, who wakes up one perfectly normal Thursday with a perfectly
normal hangover. Things go rapidly downhill from there.
The local council arrive to demolish his house, his best friend Ford suddenly
turns out to be from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse
(and not from Guildford as he had previously claimed). Oh, and some aliens
arrive to demolish the Earth. Definitely not your average Thursday then.
A book which became 'cult' before the word became a cliche, H2G2 (as its
known to its fans) has been made into a BBC TV series, radio play, and now a
major motion picture, with each version not only differing from, but actually
entirely contradicting, the others.
In its novel incarnation, Arthur and Ford hitch a lift with the Vogons -
hideous, bureaucratic sociopaths - who turned up to demolish the Earth, and
the story unfolds along its many twists and turns through time and space,
with comic relief largely provided by the absurd people, places and situations
in which our heroes find themselves, and in particular Arthur's very English
reactions to them. Ford, who rapidly becomes exasperated with Arthur's
endless questions, loans him his rather battered and spaceworn copy of the
Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - an electronic guide book which should
tell him everything he needs to know. More or less.
Finding his way In a mind-numbingly huge and bewildering galaxy, Arthur
discovers that the Earth was constructed by an ancient race of luxury planet-
builders, that Ford is a field researcher for the eponymous Guide, and that to
survive in the big, bad galaxy... well, you've really gotta know where your
towel is.
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