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Summary:
So…earlier today I did my own summary of this book (that I’ve never read) based on bits and pieces of what Emmett told me about it. Major fail. (thank you, Rik! haha!)
Here is a summary from Emmett that is much closer to the actual book and hopefully, devoid of spoilers…unlike the one I gave without realizing it! (I keep laughing at the whole thing. Too funny!)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the perfect book for someone who wants to laugh out loud and unexpectedly while reading. This is the trilogy (really there are 6 books) and tale of Arthur Dent (a man who wears pajama bottoms, a dirty shirt, and a jacket robe through out the entire book series).
Arthur Dent is an average Englishman, in an average house, in an average English town when he discovers that his house is about to be demolished to make way for a bypass. In the midst of this disarray, Arthur’s best friend, Ford Perfect, pulls Arthur from the chaos, and tells him the earth is about to be destroyed by the Vogons (space aliens). The demolition crew is the epitomy of nastiness and everything horrible (including extremely torturous poetry).
In a flash of bright light the earth is destroyed.
Arthur Dent and Ford Perfect are not among the wreckage. They have been transported onto the nearest Vogon ship and are in danger of being found.
And the adventure begins…
Where the number 42, mice, bypasses, towels, and manically depressed robots will never look the same again.
Best 3 things about this book:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has three main qualities that impressed me. 1) it’s very funny 2) it’s hilarious 3) it’s dying-on-the-floor-from-laughter hilariousness. CAUTION: reading these books may kill you from overexposure to laughter
I loved how simple things in life become complicated in Hitchhiker’s. Little things that I might see everyday like the number 42, bypasses, mice, and towels I will never look at the same way again.
You and a friend should read this book so that you can talk about the craziness of the characters and situations.
I recommend this book to:
Older teens. There is a little bit of swearing and some subtle sexual innuendoes. Younger kids won’t follow a lot of the humor.
Out of 5 yellow houses I give this book:
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love that book! and while the inaccuracies above are making my OCD tendencies flare and twitch, i shall not correct any of them. 😉
i will point out, since he loved them so much, that there are actually 6 books in the trilogy. a couple years ago, the author’s widow commissioned another british author, eoin colfer, to write a 6th book, a somewhat happier ending to the series than killing off all the characters and blowing up every single possible earth (while we’re dropping spoilers). 😉 it’s certainly not the best book of the series, but if Emmett liked it so much, you might consider looking it up for him. 🙂
Okay, Rik! 🙂 So, I totally did the summary (and a bad job of it, it sounds like! haha!) because Emmett was at school today. He gave me the rest of the info for the post and I pulled together the bits and pieces of the summary (that I thought I understood) and had no idea I gave a spoiler! oops!! 🙂 I need to have Emmett give me a better summary (hopefully devoid of spoiliers). I also thought that there was a special hitchhiking glove but I’ve since been informed by my husband and Emmett that, no, that’s not right. Oh geez! haha!