The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Reading this comedy and science-fiction comedy from Douglas Adams was actually pretty funny and entertaining. Full of geeky references, I think the author is a genius, as he perfectly balances scifi situations like spaceships, aliens, robots and planets with real life annoying situations and problems, like capitalism, depression, anxiety etc. I am personally not a fan of books, I am more of a tv series guy, but curiously, reading this book felt pretty much like watching classic scifi cartoon series like Rick & Morty or Futurama.
The book tells the weird story of Arthur Dent, a perfectly normal and average human being, whose live changes forever as he finds out that his friend, perfect Ford, is an alien and escapes with him into deep space as Earth is destroyed because it was scheduled to disappear. They, with other characters, end up in Magrathea, which is legendary planet which is known for having a planet-building industry. In this planet they meet Slartibartfast, who tells them the story of how a hyper-intelligent beings built a super computer named Deep Thought to calculate the answer to the ultimate question of life. The answer ends up being 42, which is a complete disappointment because it means nothing.
I like how everything that happens in the book is completely unexpected and how the imagination may unfold in very mysterious ways. Such ways may not always seem the traditional way or even the rational way but, who cares?
The book tells the weird story of Arthur Dent, a perfectly normal and average human being, whose live changes forever as he finds out that his friend, perfect Ford, is an alien and escapes with him into deep space as Earth is destroyed because it was scheduled to disappear. They, with other characters, end up in Magrathea, which is legendary planet which is known for having a planet-building industry. In this planet they meet Slartibartfast, who tells them the story of how a hyper-intelligent beings built a super computer named Deep Thought to calculate the answer to the ultimate question of life. The answer ends up being 42, which is a complete disappointment because it means nothing.
I like how everything that happens in the book is completely unexpected and how the imagination may unfold in very mysterious ways. Such ways may not always seem the traditional way or even the rational way but, who cares?
