The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is one of those books that’ll have you rolling on the floor with laughter all day. Composed primarily of narra­tions and dialogues, the work was origi­nally broad­cast on radio, and subse­quently converted into a book.

It’s not really a story that attempts to get somewhere; it meanders into unknown terri­tory like Alice in Wonder­land, and occasion­ally forgets its desti­na­tion, but at the end of the day, the desti­na­tion doesn’t really matter — the jokes along the way do.

Like many other sci-fi books, the Hitchhiker’s Guide intro­duces a lot of jargon, but here, it’s not essen­tial to remember the terms in order to compre­hend the plot, so it makes things easier for the reader.

One aspect of the book that I’m thankful about is that there’s no waking-up-from-the-dream kind of ending, which would have been a terrible disaster. Something like that happened in Josh Kirby: Time Warrior, in which it turns out that the whole story was part of a dream. It happened in Alice In Wonder­land too, of course, but that didn’t seem very disappointing.

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