My Favorite Book
You know how sometimes you consume a piece of media that just completely changes your standards for how that medium is used? For me, that was Hitchhiker’s Guide. Douglas Adams is a master of the written word, in my eyes. The sentence “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't” was one I had to reread a few times. Once I processed it, I realized I had never once seen words USED like that. It was amazing.
Above all, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is just plain funny. It’s got that dry English humor all over. This review is mainly focused on the first book, but this humor is present through the whole series in spades. I can’t think of a time while reading where I went “Wow, that just wasn’t funny.”
You can tell Adams worked on Doctor Who. His knowledge of sci-fi tropes and lampshading of its cliches is masterful. (Watch his Doctor Who episodes if you haven’t, by the way. They’re very good!)
The characters are easy to like, regardless of how annoying some (Zaphod) would likely be to hang around in real life. Marvin the Paranoid Android is one of my favorite fictional characters period.
I could praise this book and its sequels for hours, but I think your time would be better spent reading these classics instead of having me tell you how good they are. Hell, I should get back to it to. Still haven’t finished So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish yet.
Above all, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is just plain funny. It’s got that dry English humor all over. This review is mainly focused on the first book, but this humor is present through the whole series in spades. I can’t think of a time while reading where I went “Wow, that just wasn’t funny.”
You can tell Adams worked on Doctor Who. His knowledge of sci-fi tropes and lampshading of its cliches is masterful. (Watch his Doctor Who episodes if you haven’t, by the way. They’re very good!)
The characters are easy to like, regardless of how annoying some (Zaphod) would likely be to hang around in real life. Marvin the Paranoid Android is one of my favorite fictional characters period.
I could praise this book and its sequels for hours, but I think your time would be better spent reading these classics instead of having me tell you how good they are. Hell, I should get back to it to. Still haven’t finished So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish yet.
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