One of the funniest and uplifting books I`ve ever read.

It doesn't get any better than this. Best books ever.

The story is intricate, and beautifully woven, involving inter/intra galactic worlds, employing science and of course probability.
This sci-fi book takes some of the major metaphysics questions (or at times put some, if deeply thought, in its own way) - pertaining to cosmology, universe, epistemology in a humour, which is imaginative, innovative, and illuminating on the subject. Right from addressing philosophical questions to attending idiosyncrasies of each character to the description of each one of them - in books lingua - is humorous, very humorous, really humorous, humorously humorous.
I have always enjoyed Doulas Adams' playful use or misuse of our language.
Surrealiously folks, you have to read it to believe it. And you won't believe it!

Don't panic.
I absolutely loved this book.
I started reading it a while ago. Since it has all five of Adams' Hitchhiker's "Trilogy" in it, I usually took a break between stories, so it took a bit of time to finish the whole thing.

This n  The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyn has far and away made it to the top of my "favourite books" list.

Douglas Adams has a way of making simple things funny, and funny things hilarious, and all while sprinkling in a bit of sarcasm, random events, and science. It isn't your typical science fiction. Instead, he takes a very chaotic, or seemingly chaotic, universe and makes it a parable of humour to our own. He found a way to make our anti-hero, Arthur Dent, funny and inspiring--even if he only reminded us that we needed to keep an eye on our biscuits, and make a fresh pot of tea. I'm pretty sure Marvin the Paranoid Android is my spirit animal, but all of The Hitchhiker's Guide cast is interesting, funny, and lovable in their own way.

I love Adams' imagination and writing style. He has such an eloquent, concise, and extremely witty way of telling just enough information to keep the story going, but not too much that everything is laid out for you already--he only gives relevant information, and he gives your imagination the chance to fill in the blanks--if it wants to. I think this makes the story rather brilliant, because isn't that what we do with life already? I find that I enjoy stories like this more than typical writing, where authors have a tendency to carry on about things that only make me yawn, or lay out so much information that I'm forced to perceive the world exactly how they want me to... and that just isn't much fun.

I definitely think it is one of those books that everyone should read at least once in their life. I could go on about how much I loved these stories and how much wisdom can be found in them, but I think it's easier to just say "read them and find out!"

Why does British humor rely so much on the use of indifference? Just something I've noticed.

So the Earth is destroyed. In an indifferent manner, which makes it hi-larious. A bloke is saved and, unmoored in the Universe, is dragged through a series of droll hijinx. One formulaic hijinx after another, which are really just vehicles for terribly self-satisfied one-liners. And then the novel stops at a seemingly arbitrary point -- though I suspect it's actually the point of diminishing returns. At around the third novel (this is a collection of five plus a short story, remember; I expect my medal to arrive any day now), Adams begins to lick himself uncontrollably and lifts entire chapters from his earlier books. I find this utterly distasteful.

The first two novels collected here (n  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyn and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) are tolerable if you enjoy dry humor. The rest is offal.

The coolest five-book trilogy ever. Seriously some of the best and original science fiction ever written, and it just happens to be hilarious. Not too many people have the balls to write a trilogy that starts off with the absolute destruction of earth for no other reason than the fact that it was in the path of a hyperspace highway that was soon to become obsolete with the advent of the improbability drive. Speaking of which, the technology in these books is easily more imaginative than anything that George Lucas has thought of in the last twenty years. I look forward to the day when I can receive all of my nutrients through a towel. Painting myself pink has yet to be attempted, but I have no doubt that I would become somebody else's problem. My goal in life is to create Disaster Area's completely frictionless ship that gets launched into a nearby star at the climax of their planet-wide concerts. Someday.... Reading these books is essential for living. If you appreciate anything from Monty Python (Adams worked with the Pythons on occasion) or want to read something original, read this iconic trilogy. You will not be sorry.

Great science fiction combined with comedy, You'll laugh all around.

De inicio todos los libros en uno solo, mas que genial.
Que se puede decir de esa colección de historias. Personajes memorables, situaciones de todo tipo, viajes espaciales y temporales, y un humor siempre presente.
Aventura, comedia, robótica, heroísmo, de todo hay, y siempre divertido.

First of all: sadly I had expected more! But it was a really funny read that humor-wise reminded me of "The Humans" by Matt Haig and "Good Omens", content-wise of Doctor Who and "Mun Mun" by Jesse Andrews from the freak-level of the book. It was really refreshing and ingenious, full of incredibly witty dialogues and lovable characters, as well as frustratingly confusing storylines that I could very well have done without. I always really enjoyed the beginning of each story, liked the middle part well enough but eventually ended up getting tired of the conclusion, because either it didn't make any sense, left me feeling unsatisfied or felt like the author couldn't have been bothered to give the story a proper ending. Thankfully, at least the final ending was quite a good one in that regard (even though I had to google the explanation for that one as well! Way to make one feeling stupid), but I have to say that I feel like the author - same as it often happened for Doctor Who episodes - got lost in his ideas and tried too hard to be freaky and funny at the same time. As it happens, some jokes were bland and uninspired and seemed only to exist because either the author was so convinced that literally everything he said was funny, or because he felt that he had to fulfill certain expectations of making his readers laugh. Still, it was SUCH an enjoyable read and I'm glad I finally tackled it. 800 pages could've been spent much worse!

It's that book you pick up and feel obligated to love, if only to escape grievous fan persecution. Well. Here goes.

Let's start with the humour. Yes, it's everything that humour should be. For a while, you are oh-so-amused and impressed...but then you weary of being so amused. Akin to being kept on the edge of your seat for a good few hours - something's going to get sore. It's just such a strain. I skipped ten or so pages near the middle but I'm sure those ten pages were, like the rest of the book, terribly witty and sickeningly clever.

The plot takes twists like...ah, what's a good analogy? A snake on LSD? That'll do. Don't get me wrong, they're good twists and Adams is admittedly superb at making the inherently illogical seem orderly and precise, but they just don't stop coming. And after a while, the worst happens and the reader just stops caring.

I can see why this book has achieved its cult status. It deserves its cult status in many ways. There are moments of startling originality that knock you back and spin your world to a crazy new angle, but when the whole book is all but filled with these moments, the crazy new angle begins to make you dizzy and irritated. At the end, I'm still feeling oh-so-amused and impressed, but also oh-so-relieved I can stop.

My rating for Book 1 was a resounding 5 stars. Things got much worse from there, but I would still recommend people read the first book because it is so good. In fact, it is the only book that I would recommend. Someday I'll tell my children, "Just read Book 1 even if you feel like the story doesn't have a definitive conclusion. Reading the next four books in the series doesn't give the story a conclusion anyway, so save yourself some time."

The first book is so strong that I'll give this collection a 3-star rating even though I hope to never read four of the books in this collection again.

Now that I have finished the 5 books in the “Hitchhiker's” series (written by Douglas Adams), here is how I would rank them (from best to worst):

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

3. So Long, and Thank for All the Fish

4. Mostly Harmless

5. Life, the Universe, and Everything

Soooooooooo much fun! Even those on a probability fault line can agree that this is gold.

Acho que foi a série mais louca que já li kkk e isso faz a série ser muito legal e única.
Confesso que gostei mais dos dois primeiros livros e depois a leitura se tornou um pouco cansativa e perdendo um pouco a graça. Mas mesmo assim valeu a pena ter lido, todas essas coisas loucas e bizarras me divertiram bastante.