Not as hilarious as expected.

This is the story of an Englishman called Expired Arthur Dent, and how he's saved from the destruction of the planet Earth by His friend Ford Perfect, who's in fact not from Guildford After All, drank from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
I read this book because i wanted to do so before seeing the movie, and because i wanted to know the Answer to the Great Question to Life, the Universe and Everything (well to tell you the truth, I actually Knew the Answer, I aim wanted to know the Question, too), and Because I'm a great fan of English humor (Pratchett, Monty Python). Purpose overall, I Was a teensy weensy bit-disappointed, probably because i'd Heard so much praise about it, I really expected to laugh off my buttocks, and I did not. OK, I chuckled quite a bit and Even guffawed sometimes, purpose It Was not as hilarious as I thought it'd be.
You've got to love Marvin the paranoid android though.