: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Douglas Adams
I read part of this back in high school, but never finished it (or don’t remember finishing it). I liked it, but the story wasn’t compelling enough to keep me from getting side-tracked. When Adams died I decided I needed to read his stuff, and so I recently picked up this as a starting point (I never read any of the sequels, though I plan to do so now). The book is very funny and wacky, mocking everything from existence to science. The story itself is slim and almost irrelevant — you read this to be amused by Adams’ wit and clever phrases. Essentially, the book proves that Murphy’s Law is the only constant in the universe. My favorite thing is still the concept that mice are a more intelligent species than humans, and that they are here on Earth only to study humans by pretending to cooperate in scientific experiments. Very cool. Adams was definitely a genius.
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