I Love "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

I love that you can tell who has read this book because they laugh at the number 42...it' a perfect inside joke.

...now where in the hell did I put my towel?

A man who  mistakenly names himself after a car and sticks with it even after he finds out  he's wrong deserves a fan like me. I think i identify with him more than anyone else, then arthur, then trillian in that order. I just love...

42  and  don't panic ( but this can't be good)

In the 80's when at boarding school - lights out at 8 - I used to listen to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the radio - brilliant, laughed out loud a lot - nearly got caught listening. Even now I can recite many of the lines. I...

I first heard about it when I saw the movie, but after I read the book, I obviously loved it more (the movie changed the plot! wtf? -_-). Douglas Adams was a genius. He's in my list of people I would love to meet dead or alive (May he...

It would be great fun to travel around the universe that way lol
I see there even is Babelfish online lol - so maybe we all are already traveling lol
One can never say ;-)

I ended up with every one of them and I didn't even really know it was a series. I was enthralled, entranced, in love with them. That's how I do with books. I either love them or just finish them because I don't like to quit.

They were...

I read the book a long time ago, loved it so much. I have horrible memory but can remember so many quotes from the story. There are days I feel like Marvin. Recently I've been thinking the don't panic line a lot. Is it debulbox that...

i love the use of juxtaposed similies in his books elegant yet simple

"the ships of the vogon constructor fleet hung in the air in the way a house brick doesnt"

take a second and think about this one, gravity is a universal concept it...

Recently started retreading these books, checked into the process of how Douglas Aadams wrote the books. Very interesting how many versions there are. I especially like the cow at the Restaraunt at the End of The Universe. This book...

I loved it. I remember when it first hit the book stores in 79.
That it came after the radio show didn't bother me. (Actually I didn't get to hear the rdio show until a few years ago on CD)
But I can remember laughing at just about...