The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was written by Douglas Adams. It follows Arthur Dent who is pulled out of earth seconds before it was destroyed. He accompanies a hitchhiking alien who was stranded on earth for fifteen years. The book is full of Adams' quick wit and clichés. I never before was ever really interested in science fiction novels, but this novel have a very comical approach to it, ... how we come to be. Adams' also raises very interesting ideas and points about earth and its inhabitants. Although they are very exaggerated and out of this world, it provokes the reader to consid...

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Upon first reading of both The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Waiting for Godot, it is easy to conclude that Adams' writing was written better and meant more than Becketts' nonsense of nothing two act play simply because Hitchhiker's was easier to comprehend. But after digging deeper into the text, you will come to love and appreciate Beckett's work. In comparison to Waiting for Godot, Adams broke few norms in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The book offers nothing refreshing to what is currently in media today. Most current day books and movies provide a humourous, out of the norm...

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... familiar with, in a whole new perspective. E.i, in this book, Adams reveals that man is only the third most intelligent form of life on earth, next after dolphins and mice. What makes the book so funny is mainly the odd things and the strange persons, such as Marvin, the paranoid android. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a book full of humour, and funny remarks on our society, and our way of ... thinking. I can with no doubt say that this is the best book I have ever read and I encourage everyone to check it out, even if you don ... 't like science fiction, and if you like it, rea...

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First quarter's The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy is a really good book for the part that I have read, a bit confusing I might add but interesting. Well this book does not start like a common book, for starters this book was not written on earth supposedly. This book takes place on earth but written here, this book was written because everyone on earth is not happy with their life and this one person got the perfect idea of how to make it all better but a catastrophe occurred. As it says in the book it was not written on that person, it was written on th...

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... created was titled "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and ran for twelve successful installments. Because of the popularity, Douglas Adams was asked by a publishing house to produce a novel based upon his radio series. The novels sold quickly and inspired Adams to write four sequels following "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy". Douglas Adams died on May 13th of the year 2003. There is a significant background to the novel "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" which introduces new topics into the 1980's. The common topic of Space ... exploration was re-introduced in the novel from ...

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