Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: the Trilogy of Four (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) [Paperback]

Douglas Adams (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Publication Date: March 8, 2002

HE HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur, who has just had his house demolished, this is too much. Sadly, the weekend's just begun. THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE: When all issues of space, time, matter and the nature of being are resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience and, for once, there is no morning after. LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING: In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. And then, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH: Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state when he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. They go in search of God's Final Message and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it.

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About the Author

Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly in 2001. After Douglas died the movie of Hitchhiker moved out of development hell into the clear uplands of production, using much of Douglas' original script and ideas. Douglas shares the writing credit for the movie with Karey Kirkpatrick.

Product Details

• Paperback: 768 pages
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan (March 8, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330492047
• ISBN-13: 978-0330492041
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 2.1 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,273 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) was the much-loved author of the Hitchhiker's Guides, all of which have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal command of the language, life and its humour, March 23, 2004

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Bryan MacLeod (Marathon, Ont., Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: the Trilogy of Four (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (Paperback)

We have all read incredibly moving, life-shaping books, books that challenge your spirit and your intellect to achieve new heights, books written by men and women of deeper thought than anything us mortals could hope to attain...

And then there are these great books by Douglas Adams that let you tell all those thinkers to get stuffed, stop taking themselves so seriously and just enjoy life in all its wonders.

For anyone that has travelled, really travelled, who loves life, who really loves life, and enjoys a good laugh, these books are for you. Put Monty Python, The Far Side, David Suzuki, an English dictionary and chocolate (for flavour) into a blender and you have something nasty, but not entirely unlike the humour in these wonderful books.

Dive in. And above all: Don't Panic.

And to see just what a wonderful thinker Douglas Adams actually was, read his posthumous collection "The Salmon of Doubt" which is an excellent and thought provoking (but not in a snooty way) read.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The purist edition!, August 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Hitchhikers Quartet (Hardcover)

This omnibus publishing of the Hitchhikers Quartet contains the first four books of the Hitchhikers Trilogy, considered the only true Trilogy by many purists. The series starts with the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, then continues with The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe and Everything and rounds out with So Long and Thanks For All the Fish. This is considered me many the core of the Guide's story, and that "Mostly harmless" takes the story in an unwanted direction and prematurely ends the series with the elimination of 3 of the main characters. Most hardcore Adams purists prefer to leave the story hanging with the possibility of the infinite possibilities possible in an infinite universe.

2 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ...not bad, March 25, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: the Trilogy of Four (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (Paperback)

This book is alright, once you spend time reading the first 10 chapters. I fell asleep twice in this book, but it is getting a bit interesting. I haven't read it all, a little more than half, if you like science fiction space junk kinda movies and books then this one is probably good for you. As for me I'll stick with my Harlequin Mystery novels.