Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #182282 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
Losing your planet isn't the end of the world...the movie tie-in edition of Douglas Adams's perennially popular novel, with exclusive on-set stories, interviews and pictures Summer 2005 finally sees the release of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY movie from Walt Disney Pictures. Stars include Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast, supercool hip-hop artist Mos Def as Ford Prefect and the gorgeous Zooey Deschanel as Trillian. Completely new characters were developed specially for the film by Douglas Adams before his death and will be played by John Malkovich and Anna Chancellor. Pan's tie-in edition of this cult classic will include substantial extras from Executive Producer, Robbie Stamp: exclusive cast interviews, stories and photographs from the set.

About the Author
Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV computer game, stage adaptation, comic book, bath towel and major movie. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International.
He was bron in Cambridge and lived with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly on 11 May 2001.
For more information, visit douglasadams.com

Customer Reviews

Gripping read, packed with humour
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a confusing, yet gripping book. The author, Douglas Adams, has a very sarcastic and dry sense of humour. This may appeal to some, whereas others might find this tedious. This is a very well written book; however, it may take several reads to fully understand the complexity of it.

This Sci-fi novel follows the life-changing adventures of Arthur Dent, a human being. He is one of the only two surviving humans in the universe, since Earth was demolished, to make way for a hyper-space bypass. Everyone apart from Arthur and his ex-girlfriend were obliterated. On his long and tiring journey, Arthur re-encounters his ex-girlfriend, and meets a journalist for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the president of the universe. Together, they brave several of the terrors of the universe and discover some peculiar things. Overall, this is a great read.

I guess I'm just old fashioned:
But I prefer a good old SF classic based on a beleivable storyline: Like The Triffids or The Trouble with Litchen or The Cephae or even Oryx and Crake. I had been recommended the Hitchhikers by several 'intelligent' friends but after reading a couple of chapters I found that the story, like other fantasy, just did not hold my attention, so I dropped it into our local charity shop. Sorry Douglas, I tried, but this one's not for me.

Really funny
If you like the bizarre humour of the film then i definately recomend this as well. Be warned though it is very different from the film and has some illogical things in it. But then thats wont makes Douglas Adam's books so damm funny. Or i think so anyway. I got all five in the hitchhiker series and definately recomend them to anyone who likes the Adams kind of humour.