Which of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books is best?

Well?

  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Votes: 24 40.7%

  • The Restaurant at the end of the Universe

    Votes: 6 10.2%

  • Life, The universe and Everything

    Votes: 8 13.6%

  • So long, and Thanks for all the Fish

    Votes: 1 1.7%

  • Mostly Harmless

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I didn't like any of them

    Votes: 5 8.5%

  • Gah, I can't choose!

    Votes: 15 25.4%
  • Total voters
    59
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Your opinion, please.

Vote only if you've read all of the five books.
 
Life, Universe and Everything.

It was the first one I read (yes strange of me to do it), so it is the one I got into most.

Also weird having a huge spelling mistake like "wjich" in the title :)
 
kirovman said:
Life, Universe and Everything.

It was the first one I read (yes strange of me to do it), so it is the one I got into most.

Also weird having a huge spelling mistake like "wjich" in the title :)
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Oops, fixed. I agree with "Life Univese and Everything", simply beacause I found it funnier. The swedish translation is so lame, so I prefer them on english.
 
Can nayone tell what these boosk are all about, and what exactly makes them so intersting.
 
Grey Fox said:
Can nayone tell what these boosk are all about, and what exactly makes them so intersting.
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Well, it's about Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect and their trip throughout the galaxy. The first book begins with earth being destroyed to make way for a new hyper-express route. You have to read it, it's hilarious.
 
The Restaurant at the end of the Universe
 
Can't choose between 1, 2, 3 and 5... bleh I'll pick the last option with the note that I like my original cassettes of the radio show best :p (well actually they're my dad's... BUT THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT).
 
For some reason my Dad only has So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, so Im reading that. Saw a bit of it when it was on Tv. Guess I cant vote...
*votes anyway* :LOL: Just kidding.
 
Anybody watch the latest movie trailer? I think it needs more British accents.
 
Yeah the first one. Espcially the introduction: "Yellow". haha, pure Genious.
 
I've read them all, but it was so long ago, I cannot remember which was which. The one I laughed the most about was when one of the characters kept waking up and being knocked unconscious again by his robot captors. Sorry, details are fuzzy.....

I also liked Ford Prefect putting the London Zoo and a hotel on his expense account with the Hitchhikers Guide.
 
Ah I can't remember what your talking about I really should read those books again, the one thing I can remember was when that guy went into a parallel universe by going through the office window and went into the death lift or whatever it was, memory very fussy but I can remember that was pretty cool
 
Well, it's not really easy to choose. The first two books were great. And the rest... if you could just cut all of Marvin's parts from them and stick them in a single book, that book would be great as well.
 
I still have yet to read the first one.

I don't have any money currently to buy it. :(
 
mostly harmless = hitch-hikers? no... really? It was a trilogy of 4, with the fifth one (the salmon of doubt), being only loosely related to the whole Guide thing.

Mostly harmless (although the title may be misleading) isn't part of the "trilogy".

don't correct me if I'm wrong. I'd rather live a false life, then be embarrassed online :(

Life, the Universe and Everything. :thumbs:
 
Well, actually it's like The Simlarillion and The Hobbit. They aren't exactly part of the book (which, in both LOTR and HHGTTG is a trilogy), but the series isn't complete without them. :)
 
I say the first one, though I liked the three first very much.
 
Ranga said:
mostly harmless = hitch-hikers? no... really? It was a trilogy of 4, with the fifth one (the salmon of doubt), being only loosely related to the whole Guide thing.

Mostly harmless (although the title may be misleading) isn't part of the "trilogy".

don't correct me if I'm wrong. I'd rather live a false life, then be embarrassed online :(

Life, the Universe and Everything. :thumbs:
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The (book) series is as such:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at The End of the Universe
Life, the Universe, and Everything
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
Mostly Harmless

The Salmon of Doubt was likely going to become the next one in the series, but the book now titled that is in fact just a really well done compilation of the work found on Douglas' computers when he died.
 
The_Monkey said:
He dies in 2000, right? How?
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Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 49, while working out at his gym in Santa Barbara, California. He had moved to Santa Barbara in 1999. He was survived by his wife, Jane, and daughter, Polly. In May 2002, The Salmon of Doubt was published, which includes many short stories, essays, and letters, and eulogies from Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry and Terry Gilliam. It also includes eleven chapters of his long-awaited but unfinished novel, The Salmon of Doubt, which was to be a new Dirk Gently and/or HHGG novel, or neither.

source: Wikipedia
 
AIDisabled said:
Well, actually it's like The Simlarillion and The Hobbit. They aren't exactly part of the book (which, in both LOTR and HHGTTG is a trilogy), but the series isn't complete without them. :)
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Well really none of it is in order anyway. The first few books were based off the Radio series he did in England back in the late 60's (pretty sure it was late 60's) But they did not go in order. That's why certain things seem so out of place and such in some of the books. But there are technically 6 books in the Hitchhikers guide series, since they all deal with characters from that series. The only one not shown in previous posts is "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" but it really has nothing at all to do with the rest of the series.

I couldn't pick a favorite, I've read them all so many times and I love'em all. Did you know there is a movie coming out for it? and I don't mean that crappy version that the BBC put out a while ago(it was only crappy production wise, but it was nearly spot-on the story) Here's a bit about it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
 
I have a lot of trouble choosing between 1, 2, and 3, as they all have great jokes. In the end, I choose the third.

I vote the 4th the most boring.
 
Shens said:
Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 49, while working out at his gym in Santa Barbara, California. He had moved to Santa Barbara in 1999. He was survived by his wife, Jane, and daughter, Polly. In May 2002, The Salmon of Doubt was published, which includes many short stories, essays, and letters, and eulogies from Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry and Terry Gilliam. It also includes eleven chapters of his long-awaited but unfinished novel, The Salmon of Doubt, which was to be a new Dirk Gently and/or HHGG novel, or neither.

source: Wikipedia
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That just made me think of something.

Why wasn't Terry Gilliam asked to direct HHGTTG!?!?!?
 
Terry Gilliam's directing style is....unique. (Anyone who's seen 12 Monkeys knows what I'm talking about here) While a great friend of Adams, I'm not sure I'd want him directing it.
 
Direwolf said:
Terry Gilliam's directing style is....unique. (Anyone who's seen 12 Monkeys knows what I'm talking about here) While a great friend of Adams, I'm not sure I'd want him directing it.
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Pfft.....I think he's one of the best directors working today.

His visual style combined with his obvious association to the material would have been perfect.
 
I don't deny thats hes a heck of a director, but I'd think that maybe you'd want to play it a bit more fast and loose than a guy who's been known to spend hours trying to improve the performance of a hamster.
 
Restaurant at the end of the universe. For some reason the jokes in that one are more memorable for me.
 
I think the first one is the best. The story is more memorable, and it just seems more epic than the rest. And I found it the funniest.
 
I liked the first one the best..... like a lot of people

The rest were good, but they kind of blended together, not as memorable.

They're great though :D
 
KetelOne said:
But there are technically 6 books in the Hitchhikers guide series, since they all deal with characters from that series. The only one not shown in previous posts is "Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" but it really has nothing at all to do with the rest of the series.
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Young Zaphod Plays It Safe is a short story, not a book; it's included in The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide--which has all five novels plus the short story plus an introduction by Adams and an article by Neil Gaiman.

So which is the sixth book?
 
I've read the entire 'trilogy', and The Resteraunt at the End of the Universe has to be my favorite. :)
 
AIDisabled said:
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe is a short story, not a book; it's included in The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide--which has all five novels plus the short story plus an introduction by Adams and an article by Neil Gaiman.

So which is the sixth book?
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Well. I guess it would just be a short story. If that's the case then I know of no 6th story. I just added it in due to it being in the Ultimate guide. I had never heard of it until that point. ;(

speaking of Douglas Adams, Anyone ever read Long, Dark, Tea-Time of The Soul?
 
Yeah. Was pretty darn funny, with a lot of new ideas for him. A little mixed up at times though.
 
KetelOne said:
speaking of Douglas Adams, Anyone ever read Long, Dark, Tea-Time of The Soul?
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I have. And if you've read Dirk Gently 1, please do read Tea-Time. It's as hilarious as the original.
 
I have yet to read any of the other Dirk Gently books, but the first one should be arriving at my place soon, if amazon isn't lagging behind. I can't wait, I hear they are fantastic.
 
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