Hitch a ride through space,/ defy causality's odds./ Attract together.#HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a very unevenly edited book and contains many passages that simply seemed to its editors like a good idea at the time. One of these (the one Arthur now came across)...
Finally got around to reading (the first book of) "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". I had fun with Douglas Adams's enjoyment of his own literary elements, such as the obvious magic in having a "book in a book". Hitchhiker's is well known through its adaptations in film, radio and stage performances, but they fail to do the book justice in its whole because this story is about that literary magic, an alchemical process of which those adaptations are merely by-products of.
“Hey,” he cooed to himself, “you’re a real cool boy you.” But his nerves sang a song shriller than a dog whistle.
The real heart of Hitchhiker's lies in the writer's intimate knowledge of their craft, of words and of wisdom. As cliche as it may sound, Douglas Adams is a real lover of the basic humanity and the ideas innate in everything and everyone (or, is a true Brit, according to April).
Zaphod loved effect: it was what he was best at.
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