Resumo de The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

If you are on the lookout for the Question to the Ultimate Answer, the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is your destination. Douglas Adam created an international multi-media phenomenon that span over several decades since its inception as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio in 1978. Its various adaptations include a series of five books first published between 1979 and 1992, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and comic book adaptations of the first three novels published by DC comics between 1993 and 1996. Also, who can ever ignore the official version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - two series of towels, produced by Beer-Davies!Lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck with a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe book and looking up at the stars, a man thought that it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well? and this was the orgin of an event which the world will celebrate till its destruction ? the backdrop of all of Adam?s stories. Looking at The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from a critical view point, Douglas Adam have precisely camouflaged the grudge and the uncertainties of the real world against a thoroughly researched fictional outlay - How many roads must a man walk down?, I've always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.", etc. ? these lines are more than scripts? they are the face of altered reality.There exists a strong contradiction between the books and the plots of the television and radio series. The books are described as a trilogy in five parts and subsequent re-releases bore the legend in the increasingly inaccurately named 'Hitchhiker's trilogy'. However, some consider the books' version of events to be definitive, because they are the most readily accessible and widely distributed version of the story.The five parts of the book published till date includes - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly HarmlessThe big-screen adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was released in 2005 and it involved a romantic triangle, a visit to Vogsphere and it roughly covered the events in the first four radio episodes, and ends with the characters en route to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, leaving the opportunity for a sequel open. There mixed reviews both within and outside fandom. Some fans felt essential elements of the humour and philosophy had been lost in the adaptation, and the introduction of a romantic subplot was an unnecessary Hollywoodism, whereas criticism from some reviewers held that the film had good intentions but the pacing was problematic. Looking beyond critical bias, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been a global phenomenon and is an epitome of the power of human imagination. Adams died of a heart attack at age 49 in 2001 with his unfinished dream of the sixth book in the Hitchhiker's series. He left us with the various incarnations of the story, of which the books, having been translated into more than 30 languages and over 14 million copies sold - the search for the question to ultimate answer will never end - Don?t leave the earth without it , The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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