Our hero called Arthur Dent. It is earthly and has no passion in life if not worry about everything and anything. In this he is quite representative of the human species. Judge for yourself what that says the narrator: "Orbiting this at a distance of Roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly Insignificant little blue green planet apedescended Whose life forms are so amazingly primitive That They still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea . This planet has - or Rather HAD - a problem, qui Was this:. MOST of the people on phrasal adverb unhappy for pretty much of the time Were suggéré Many solutions for this problem, purpose MOST of These Were Largely Concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, qui est on the whole odd Because It Was not the small green pieces of paper That Were unhappy. "
Today is Tuesday. He learns that his house will be torn down within 5 minutes, for a motorway contruire shortcut. Then a friend leads him to a pub for a drink, and there he learns that his friend is an alien. And that the planet will be destroyed within 5 minutes.
Arthur Dent keeps getting chickweed, he is wrong he is one of two unique earthlings survivors. Embedded in a spaceship with his extraterrestrial friend he will discover the universe, multiple alien races, a robot always very bad mood, and it will ... discover the origin of the Earth. It will be extremely disappointed, and us.
The book is short, very light and has no other purpose than to entertain by taking the most trivial matters, such as a towel, "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: has a Few Things to say it . the subject of towels A towel, it says, is about The Most Useful massively interstellar hitch hiker year thing can-have Partly it has great practical value -. you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta ; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea Vapours; you can sleep under it Beneath the stars shine so redly qui on the desert world of Kakrafoon (...).
More importantly, a towel HAS huge psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) Discovers That a hitch hiker Has His towel with _him_, he will automatically assume he est aussi That in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask , compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will happily lend the hitch Then hiker Any of These gold items dozen --other hitch hiker que le might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think Is That Any Man Who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows Where His towel is is Clearly a man to be reckoned with. "
I read the story in a few hours without boredom. However, I could not help but compare it to Terry Pratchett. And for me it is to the disadvantage of "Hitch Hicker." It lacks psychology characters (even cardboard paste) and a denser story than big joke about the universe.
Recommended for all fans of SF and humor. Personally I like humor, but not a book based solely on the subject (hence the interest of Pratchett who mix humor with a true story and a pastiche of the company).
