Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[darkangel787]

Is it just me, or is no one talking about them?

 

Such an amazing trilogy (not a typo) of books! I love all five of them.

 

So, let's discuss. Any other hitchhiker's out there?

[ArdereV]

Yes. I have a leather-bound, gold plated copy of the Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide and I bring a towel to school every towel day.

 

Um. . . favorite character is Ford Prefect. Favorite bit is about the Grebulons at the beginning of Mostly Harmless.

[esnym]

**waves at fellow hitchhikers**

[catstaff]

Douglas Adams gave a talk and did a book signing at my uni back during the '88/'89 school year, back before Mostly Harmless was written. While they are just mass-market paperbacks, I did get the four books that made up the trilogy back then autographed. For the giggles, since there was enough space to do it, I had him sign So Long and Thanks for All the Fish on page 42.

[Darklight]

I just finished the first one, and I really liked it. Poor whale, though. Anyways, are the other books in the series as good as the first?

[Fortune86]

It's been so long since I read them (borrow from school library), but I really enjoyed them. I ought to find some copies and re-read.

[Wookieinmashoo]

I just finished the first one, and I really liked it. Poor whale, though. Anyways, are the other books in the series as good as the first?

I remember liking the two after that just as much, but the others weren't so great. It's been a while though (7 or 8 years) and I might reread them just for kicks.

[Chalkboard]

I re-read the whole series when Eoin Colfer wrote the "last book", ...And Another Thing. I have always loved this series because it holds a lot of my flavour of humour - absurd and a little dark. I enjoyed the last book but I couldn't help thinking that, although I do also admire Eoin Colfer, it wasn't quite the same as the other books.

If anyone's looking for more of Douglas' works after finishing H2G2, there are a couple of short stories floating around somewhere (which are Hitchhiker's-related) and you can always read The Salmon of Doubt, which is kind of a compilation of Douglas' unpublished essays, speeches and stories.

[SoiledLove]

FOURTY TWO.

 

I've only read the first book...