Douglas Adams:review

- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a Trilogi in Five Parts -

Hmmm, what can One say about a book like this... Well it's not like anything else I've read, the exeption would be, Slaughterhouse- Five by Kurt Vonnegut, but they aren't really that alike. I've heard a rumour, saying that Adams was inspired by Vonnegut and therefore started writing "the Guide". If that's true we all owe Vonnegut a dept of gratitude.

Just as Slaughterhouse-Five, "the Guide", is a remarkable book in many ways. There is a lot of fiction involved, one event more stunning and crazy than the other. If you'll read it you'll get my point.

The major drawback in my point of view, is that the second time you're reading the whole saga, you'll probably start getting bored somewhere in - Life, the Universe and Everything -, and then you've only red three fifths. You've got approximately 250 - 300 pages left. As you've probably noticed I said the second time you're reading it.

The First time you probably won't get bored that easily. It's got humour, loads and loads of it actually, and if you've got the same humor as Mr Adams you're going to have some 500 pages of fun to look foreward to.

I liked this book from the very begining, and I dare say that the very first part, with Arthur lying in the mud trying to stop Mr L. Prosser, the man in charge of the clearing of Arthur's house in favour for a new bypass, also the man who is, without knowing, a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, is one of my absoulute favourites.

I'll grade this book four stars, out of five, mostly because of all the fun I've had reading it.

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