Tuesday, November 15, 2011
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I'm currently reading the book A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. It is a very interesting book about a British man who gets transported onto another planet. This book is sort of set in the future, because they have lots of spaceships all around the galaxy, but Earth doesn't know about the other planets. The protagonist is from Earth, while his friend is from another planet, researching Earth to update The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The friend, Ford, gets stuck on Earth for 10 light years. The 'bad' planet is going to destroy Earth to build a new transport system, and the protagonist and his friend escape by hitchhiking onto the planet's spaceship. This book has a lot of humor in it, like the bad planet's poetry is bad, and it makes you want to kill yourself and makes you go crazy. If I were in the main character's situation now, having just been dumped in space by the bad planet and the grabbed another ride on a spaceship, I would be very nervous. I just barely survived with a couple seconds of air left. I would be worried because I don't know who or what will be on this spaceship, and since I remember how bizarre the last spaceship was, I would have a negative view on other spaceships and planets. This book is very bizarre, but very intense! It is a long book but it moves very quickly. If you like fast moving science-fiction books, you will enjoy this one a lot!
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Very intresting!! I saw the movie " A Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and thought that it was the most bazzare movie i had ever seen. I tried to read the book once but I dropped about 30 pages into the book, because it was so confusing to read. Do you recommend it for other students? Maybe you should see the movie and see if it at all like the book.
ReplyDeleteI laughed when I saw this post because you just recommended this book to me!!! It sounds really interesting. Your post made me wonder what I would do if I was in his position and how I would feel. I think I'd be scared. Like, really scared. This also made me wonder if that could be true... if in other galaxies there were people... or creatures... who have sent out their own ships and things like that. When there are as many galaxies and planets there are we can't be the ONLY planet with developed life! By the way, what do you think of the writing style?
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