The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
(Douglas Adams)
The world is not going to end; it already has ended. Not a big deal, really, unless you?re a mouse or Arthur Dent.
Arthur Dent lived a rather dull life (unless you count the attempted demolition of his house), until his slightly odd friend and resident alien, Ford Prefect, informs him that his house is not the only thing scheduled for demolition. Earth is going to be destroyed to make way for a highway, and Ford and Arthur are going to hitch a ride off the doomed rock.
Ford, a researcher for the expansive and irreverent Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy, introduces Arthur to his two-headed cousin (Galactic President and thief on the run), a manically depressed robot, the most potent alcoholic beverage in the galaxy, and the galaxy?s most lethal poetry. While on the run with the President in his stolen state-of-the-art spaceship, Arthur learns some intriguing Earth history that wasn?t covered in his school textbooks. Mankind was not the most intelligent life form on the planet; humans were just lab-rats in the grand experiment designed by the mice. The mice commissioned the creation of Earth to help discover the ultimate question of life (for which they already had an answer), and Earth?s premature end is a great inconvenience for them.
Overall, a quick and amusing read about the Galaxy and its many strange inhabitants, the least of which are humans. If you?ve seen the movie, then bear in mind before reading the book that the events in the movie occur in a series of books, not just this one. And vice-versa: if you read the book and then see the film, don?t get pissed at the director for incorporating figments of his imagination into the script?Douglas Adams is responsible for all (or at least most) of the figments of the imagination.
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