Why The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy That Isn T Absurd?
Is there anything in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that isn’t absurd? The answer is, surprise, surprise… no. This quirky, fun, and overall discombobulated novel was written by Douglas Adams and published in 1979. Douglas Adams’s style of writing and humor shines through and makes a seemingly perfect universe seem the most improbable, absurd place that a person has the misfortune to be a part of.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a fun, buoyant adventure following the life of Arthur Dent as he narrowly escapes Earth’s destruction in the wake of a new space super highway being built in its place, hitching a ride with his seemingly human friend, Ford Prefect, on a spaceship belonging to alien bureaucrats who destroy planet Earth. …show more content…
Wait, why aren’t they dead yet?
Oh wait, look at that! In the most improbable circumstance ever, they get rescued by a flying spaceship. But not just any spaceship, it’s the Heart of Gold—the most technology advanced spaceship in the universe that has the Infinite Improbability Drive, meaning it could cross interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second without all the tedious mucking in hyperspace.
Huh, what a coincidence!
Meet Zaphod Beeblebrox, president, scratch that, ex-president of the universe (ever since he stole the Heart of Gold), Trillian McMillan, earthman just like Arthur Dent (who knew better than to stay at that miserable little planet and hitched a ride with Zaphod), and our ever optimistic Marvin, a super robot, as the five of them take a journey to the most improbable planet—Magrathea. Maybe this time, not even the infinite improbability drive can save them. Especially Arthur …show more content…
It turned out to be the complete opposite. If you want to read a book with smart characters, this is definitely not your choice. At every page, the characters seemed to do something really stupid or ridiculous, that it was hard not to face palm. Nonetheless, the silliness made me internally laugh. The storyline itself is almost secondary to the individual parts which make it up. While my curiosity was kept throughout the book, wondering what the answers to the mysteries would be, it was really the individual events that kept me going—aside from the blunt, concise, and slightly satiric humor, of course. The way Adams described the universe seemed humorous, but if you actually look past the comedy, the universe was actually boring and Adams used wit to keep it seemingly interesting and
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a fun, buoyant adventure following the life of Arthur Dent as he narrowly escapes Earth’s destruction in the wake of a new space super highway being built in its place, hitching a ride with his seemingly human friend, Ford Prefect, on a spaceship belonging to alien bureaucrats who destroy planet Earth. …show more content…
Wait, why aren’t they dead yet?
Oh wait, look at that! In the most improbable circumstance ever, they get rescued by a flying spaceship. But not just any spaceship, it’s the Heart of Gold—the most technology advanced spaceship in the universe that has the Infinite Improbability Drive, meaning it could cross interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second without all the tedious mucking in hyperspace.
Huh, what a coincidence!
Meet Zaphod Beeblebrox, president, scratch that, ex-president of the universe (ever since he stole the Heart of Gold), Trillian McMillan, earthman just like Arthur Dent (who knew better than to stay at that miserable little planet and hitched a ride with Zaphod), and our ever optimistic Marvin, a super robot, as the five of them take a journey to the most improbable planet—Magrathea. Maybe this time, not even the infinite improbability drive can save them. Especially Arthur …show more content…
It turned out to be the complete opposite. If you want to read a book with smart characters, this is definitely not your choice. At every page, the characters seemed to do something really stupid or ridiculous, that it was hard not to face palm. Nonetheless, the silliness made me internally laugh. The storyline itself is almost secondary to the individual parts which make it up. While my curiosity was kept throughout the book, wondering what the answers to the mysteries would be, it was really the individual events that kept me going—aside from the blunt, concise, and slightly satiric humor, of course. The way Adams described the universe seemed humorous, but if you actually look past the comedy, the universe was actually boring and Adams used wit to keep it seemingly interesting and