Author: Douglas Adams
# pages (all 4 books together): 765
Rating: 10/10
The book I’m reading is called ‘THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY’. It has five books in the series. The first book is called the one above, the second one ‘THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE’. The third one is ‘LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING’. And the fourth one is ‘SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH’. I don’t remember the name of the fifth book. Ask Zac Hutson if you want to know. He remembers because he is reading it. Wondering why the book is called ‘THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY’? It is because the book has a book in it which is called that and it has almost about everything you need to before hitchhiking across the galaxy. Some of the references in that book are quite funny (randomly). Anyways, the book is very interesting. It is supposed to be a mix of sci-fi and comedy, but sometimes the comedy is random. There is a movie on the first book. There is also a computer game.The story is set in the universe. The WHOLE universe would be more specific. The Earthlings of the story are Arthur and Trillian. Arthur is more important in the book. I think he is more like me because he is male and he is a human. Arthur ends up in outer space with his alien friend, Ford Prefect, when The Earth is destroyed and incinerated to make a new hyperspace bypass. There is also a character that has 3 heads. He is the President of the Galaxy. What I really liked about the character was that each head had a different way of thinking and had a different personality. There is a robot too. He is pretty annoying in lots of ways which you will find out when you read the book, but one thing is that he keeps going on and on and on and on about how everyone hates him and that life is very depressing for him. I think all these characters, when put together, make this book very funny and I think that this book will be great for people who like random comedy and sci-fi. There are lots of aliens in this book and scientific references which made it hard for me to understand some of the stuff going on in the story. The story, when it was set in outer space, made me think about how much there could be beyond us and The Earth, and how unimaginably big the universe can be. I really liked where the story was set, outer space. The author’s description of the environment was very clear and it showed you how the author imagined the universe to be and it made you wonder if it really was like that or was it completely different. There are also quite a few questions answered in this book, and also a few that are asked. For example, ‘What is the Ultimate Question of Everything’ and ‘What is the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Everything’. These questions have random answers too, but they are quite funny random answers. After all of these, it all comes down to the storyline and plot of the book. I don’t want to give a lot away, so I will just say that there are lots of adventures for the characters in the book and a lot of suspense, but you will only find out once you read the book. All in all, I would say that this is a great, wonderful, amazing book in which you will find out how hugely, vastly, mindbogglingly big the Universe really is. I would recommend this book to everyone, as it will give you a great time reading, and should definitely be in you ‘Books Read’ collection.
