Customer Reviews
AWESOME - By: Flufy, 31 Dec 2007 
Seriously, never has british humor ever gone to such heights as this. The storyline is incredibly intriguing, with alll sorts of dry humor, stupidly funny overtones, & a serious underlying message, though I've yet to see anyone (myself included) figure out what that message is. If you like british humor, buy it. If not, buy it. If you want a fancy looking book to put on the mantle, buy it. All in alll, this book must be purchased by everyone, & even the illiterate should be graced by the story contained within. Buy the book, or Vogons will kill you with bad Poetry!!! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you missed it
'Is that a BIBLE you're reading?' - By: bangandthedirtisgone, 27 Aug 2007 Content alone renders even five stars somehow unworthy, but leather & gilt?? Surely somebody has been maxing out their Improbability Drive.
Or am I missing the point- is there in fact a niche market for light reading printed in spritual classic format? If so my only dilemma would be which section of the bookcase to put it- next to a mother-of-pearl inlaid Stephen King or perhaps a shagreen bound Bridget Jones?
You can't be a Douglas-fan without having read this one! - By: Filipia, 12 May 2007 Having read this "trilogy" three times over, I can safely say it's totallly worth it. The sheer bizarreness & randomness of it is amazing, & just the sort of thing to expect from this genious. It gives a detailed description of the oddities that not only exist in his made up world, but also down here on Earth. I mean, we alll know the Earth-version of the Vogons. Or that someone who you think is always after you when in fact it's just a series of coincidences.
So if you've read some of Douglas' other books, or perhaps seen the movie or heard the radio series, this is a worthy read. if you haven't, it's about time you begin!
Great! - By: Robot Overlord, 01 Jun 2006 This is a fairly nice edition: a tough padded hardback, printed on gilt-egded paper which one might normallly expect to see on a bible. This is quite thin, however, & the print shows through slightly from behind each page which is not an altogether bad thing, since the five novels are comprising the hitch-hiker "trilogy" form a volume about two-and-a-half inches thick. Good travel reading, in other words.
(The "story," by the way, is a tale about Zaphod's youth, & is also printed in the sadly unfinished Dirk Gently novel " The Salmon of Doubt.")
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an undisputed classic of modern literature, & this is its definative edition, wrapping up the many incarnations of the Guide. Adams himself states that it is the purpose of the book to "set the record straight, or at least, firmly crooked." This is an excellent book, & and printed in a very nice edition. At the price it's an absolute steal.
