27 November 2011

Brain Spill Book Reviews #5

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a very random book. The book basically created the genre of random comedy. In the book, a man named Arthur Dent is taken by his friend Ford Prefect, an alien from a planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, off of the planet Earth seconds before the Earth is destroyed. Soon, the two hitchhikers catch a ride on the stolen ship, Heart of Gold, with ex-president of the galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox and a fellow human, Trisha McMillan. The four of them, along with a depressed robot and an overly happy computer, go on a quest to find the legendary planet of Magrathea and in search of the question of life, the universe, and everything. The book is filled with plenty of random events and characters and makes it the father of all random books. The book is very well written, 8.5 out of 10! Hurrah!