Title: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Writer: Douglas Adams
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Year: 1979
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Country: United Kingdom
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Language: English
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The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science-fiction book written by Douglas Adams, who
got the idea during a trip around Europe. It was one of the most successful
books of its year and it was awarded as the 24th greatest book of the
century by Waterstone.
One day, Arthur Dents
wakes up and finds his house surrounded by several bulldozers that are about to
wreck it, because the Town Hall wants to build a bypass highway. Then, Ford
Prefect, his best friend, appears saying that he is an alien and the Earth is going
to be busted by another species.
In fact, a few minutes
later, a Vogon starship appears in the sky and announces that the Earth must disappear
because they need to build an interstellar highway. Arthur and Ford get to
enter into their starship and avoid being destructed, for the moment…
This is the first novel of
a series composed of five titles plus another one written by another well-known
author (Eoin Colfer). So if you like it, you can keep on reading the following
books.
Two weeks after Douglas
Adams’ death in 2001 his followers started to celebrate the Towel Day the 25th
May honouring The Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy. (I promise this makes sense after reading the book, but I don’t
want to ruin the surprise).
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