Book Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Another book review: "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"


Name: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Douglas Adams
Genre: Science Fiction/Comedy
Published: 1979
Pages: 202
Have you read a book from this author yet?: No
Have read in: German
Book Challenge No.: 21, a book at the bottom of your to-read list

Short summary:

Arthur Dent is the typical british man: He likes Tea, scuffs along with his slippers and his dressing gown and hates changes. You can imagine how furious he gets when one morning some people want to tear down his house. Anything but that! His best friends Ford Prefect passes strange remarks about the doom of earth? Before he knows it, Arthur gets sucked into a space-age-adventure full of odd circumstances...

Positive sides:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a very diverting book full of funny moments. The humor is often preposterous and black and you will seldom find a part that makes absolutely sense. But that's the thrill of the book. Adams created a very interesting world with its own rules. After reading you find yourself kind of confused but also satisfied.
The paragraphs talking about the Hitchhiker's Guide itself are just hilarious as well as the character's features.

Negative sides:

The story is kind of short. There are several sequels to the book but it seems too puffed. I read it in approx. 4 hours.
This circumstance swallows up the humour of some passages. Some characters are hardly described.

Conclusion:

I liked the book but it didn't knock my socks off. I wanted to read the book for years because I love the movie to this book and everybody I told about it was like "You have to read the book! It's much more funnier!". But, well, my personal opinion is the movie is much better. The characters are much better portrayed and the "Hitchhiker's Guide"-passages are brilliant. Some sceneries just appear not that well in the book (Especially the absolutely nonsense-scenes, like the fall of the whale).

Is this book something for you?:

If you like to laugh and have interest in Science-Fiction, that doesn't take itself too seriously, absolutely! It's easy to read on the road and doesn't demand too much time. I would say, it is appropriate for children from 12 years on.

Assessment:

Suspense          ∆ ∆ • • •
Erotism             • • • • •
Humour            ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆
Concentration    ∆ • • • •
Genre typical     ∆ ∆ ∆ • •


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