Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5078 in Books
• Published on: 1979-10-12
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
The first four parts of the ever-expanding trilogy: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; and So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, collected in one bumper paperback volume. (Kirkus UK)

Customer Reviews

Loved it years ago, love it still
Nothing really to add than has already been written. A truly superb book whic has lead me onto reading Rankin, Pratchett and FForde. Just finished The Day Jesus Rode Into Croydon by Daryl Gould, also brilliant.

I thought it would be funnier.
I hate to say it but I didn't enjoy the book that much, it was alright and funny in parts but it just wasn't enough. I prefere Terry Pratchet books. I'm disappointed that I didn't love the book, but I don't know if I'm disappointed at me, the book or both. It just wasn't funny enough.

Forty Two Reasons to Buy.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, I borrowed Hitch Hikers from the library and changed my outlook on reading forever. At school they told us what and when to read and as a consequence I'd never read anything except for `Winnie-the-Pooh' and `The House at Pooh Corner', then they sent us home to revise for our `O' levels and I needed a silent occupation to keep me entertained whilst my Mother thought I was revising. Early on I was caught with my walkman on, I hadn't heard my mum coming up the steps, and so reading seemed like the ideal solution.

I'd enjoyed the TV series of Hitch Hikers and so got this from the library and changed overnight from a non-reader to a prolific reader. I didn't so much read as consume this and the remainder of the then four Hitch Hikers books over the next couple of days. Douglas Adams prose was so entertaining that it not only made him instantly my favourite but also introduced me to reading for pleasure. Before my revision leave was over I'd not only read the four part Hitch Hikers trilogy three times but I had also read the entire output of Tom Sharpe as well as all the James Bond and Phillip Marlowe books.

Twenty five years later Adams is still my favourite author and I can't help but think if I'd not discovered these books then I would never have read and would have missed out on all the hundreds of great books I've read since. Mind you I might have done better in my `O' levels, I could have been a contender....