This weekend i read Douglas Adam's A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Someone lent the book to me last summer, but i got distracted and never quite got around to starting it. Now i have to track down the owner to return it.
Being the geek i am, i probably should have read this years ago. My reading list usually seems to be filled with non-fiction reference books and it's not that often that work my way though a book for purely recreational purposes. I think i shied away from this book in particular after a bad experience with the co-called "classic" Dune by Frank Herbert. Dune was dense and filled with princess crap which turned me off to sci-fi fiction. I barely made a dent in it before bailing. In contrast, The Guide was light, fun and cleaver with plenty of humorous twists. If you haven't already read it, i recommend doing so.
Posted by Matthew at May 2, 2004 09:27 PMOne of my favorite all-time books, that one is. Read it again, it gets even funnier.
"You're turning into a penguin. Stop it."
And of course you now appreciate why asking google for the "answer to life the universe and everything" returns what it does.