The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

"DON'T PANIC" is what the book reads on the front, and it contains details about the entire universe. What am i talking about?? No, not the book Douglas Adams wrote. This book was not published on earth... Confused?? Yea, i was when i read the first page of the book too..

I don't generally tend to read Sci Fiction, cos there's always so much to imagine. But something about this book just got me to reading, and then out of nowhere i suddenly started to enjoy the book thoroughly. I just didn't feel like putting it down. I would read it everywhere, while eating, in class, before i slept, hell even when i was in the loo...

I know people say don't judge a book by the cover, but i did. That's why i started reading it in the first place. When i got to reading about the book i was amazed. This book is actually a radio broadcast, a show which was done and which became a big thing because luck favoured the author. Then he got to writing more shows, and finally he compiled all the scripts into novels. This is the first book in the series. I've got all the novels in one huge volume, and this first book was every bit as fun as the back-cover says.

The book begins with a scene on earth where Arthur Dent's (the main character of the series) house is being demolished to make a bypass. His friend, Ford Prefect reveals his true identity of being an alien when it comes to saving the life of Arthur, because now the Earth was being demolished to make a hyperspace freeway. He ends up becoming the sole survivor (which later on he discovers, that he actually is one of the two survivors of Earth). They end up on a manic journey, meet an old friend and relative of Ford, who happened to be the Ex-President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox, who was wanted and charged as guilty for stealing the Heart Of Gold (which is a space ship with an improbability drive). He is accompanied by Trillian (the other Earthling i was talking about) and Marvin, a depressed robot who, in my opinion, is undoubtedly the funniest character in the first novel.

The book is filled with scenes which makes you fall out of your seat laughing. I've laughed so hard that i had to close the book cos i woke my mom up in the middle of the night.. I'm not exaggerating, the book is packed with comedy, and a whole lot of sci-fi details which not every human is going to be interested in reading...