This was amazing. It was very funny.

This book isn't for everyone. For example, people who own the CDs of the radio plays, or someone who read the series, thought, 'that was cute,' and never thought about it again. However, for diehard fans, this is a must have. It is notable a being one of, if not the only versions of the story that is exactly like another version. (Well, mostly) It also provides behind-the-scenes reminiscences from Geoffrey Perkins and Douglas Adams and details of changes made to each script. Plus a bonus lost script. Oooo.

IT is a funny way to deliver a otherwise serious storyline

Just not for me.

ცოტა განსხვავებული ეპიზოდებია ვიდრე წიგნებში. ზოგი რამე უკეთაა ახსნილი. ზოგი პირიქით.

this one is for Zaphod "Z-Dog" Beeblebrox, the OG boy with the boomin' system

Na al die jaren nog steeds leuk. Heerlijk gestoord en chaotisch om de originele scripts te lezen. Wat moeten die gasten een lol hebben gehad tijdens de opnamen.

This brings it all back. Those great anarchic radio recordings

The books are better, but hard core fans should read this, too, if only for the sound effects descriptions. There are so many hidden gems in the bits only the crew was able to read.

I’ve never really rated Mr Adams as a writer - mostly because he really came across to me as a moderately talented but very lazy writer whose success came about largely through a ridiculous amount of luck and good networking - but I am prepared to admit to be wrong. These scripts are superb. The characters leap off the page and the stage directions/ descriptions only add to the experience. It’s also ridiculously funny.

It’s also interesting to compare them to the various versions of the Guide that came after it. It is different from the novels (better-written for a start: while I love the Golgafrinchan B-Ark storyline in the second book, all the novels apart from the first leave me a little cold), from the tv series, the LP and the movie (which received the most complaints about the deviations from the text, which seems a little unfair, really). The conclusion to the second series also sets up a terrific opening to the long-waited-for third series...

4 stars for series 1, 2 for 2, which, boy, is not great. One can understand why Mr. Adams rewrote so much for the novelizations. The lack of Trillian is especially egregious, as well as the ending. Sure, Adams thought they were going to series 3 right away, and thus the ending shouldn't be held against them, but still. This is where you get upset and hurl back at me my usual line of "but it's more time with these characters, which is all we fans really want." Fair enough. Okay, 4 stars instead of 3, but series two is not great.

Hmm, an interesting book.
I found the book difficult to understand, but amusing at the same time. I think some of the messages to take away from the book are: 'Don't panic', humans take themselves far too seriously, and learn to accept that there are many things that are not in our control.
It is quite funny that when the whole planet is about to be destroyed, Arthur's main concern is that his house was being demolised.

Thought provoking quote: “I'd far rather be happy than right any day."