Del Rey The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Illustrated Edition

The mass market paperback is a small poorly presented incarnation of this classic.If time permits, order the full paperback which at the time of writing had a 10-14day delivery estimate, verses the mass market paperback that was available for same day delivery with Prime.

The website says that it has more than 400 pages but it does not

About as brilliant as British satire gets. Douglas Adams remains one of my all-time favourite authors. His boundless creativity and imagination is a true inspiration for me. Especially as I am an author myself! The book remains the best version of the tale. The BBC Radio show and the 2005 movie are good, but the book is the original (and best) voice.

Your life will be better when you've finished this. It's brilliant. Everyone should be forced to read it in school.

Great book as a Martian I found this very humerus. Nano Nano 🖖🏻

This is probably only the third time I have read this modern classic, but somehow I still know the plot of the first book by heart. There are all the usual things to say of Adams' work. It's insightful, thought provoking, worryingly realistic and amazingly witty.The characters are very simple, and yet in H2G2 this seems incredibly natural, where in any other book it would probably be boring and childlike. Some places don't rub well, Zaphod and Ford are possibly a little too similar, and Trillian is distressigly under-used as the only female character.Adams' style doesn't tend to include a great deal of description of locations, which is almost a relief after all the Wheel of Time epics I've been reading recently, and I like to think this is a side-effect of the story's origins in radio. The radio experience has also rubbed off really well on the dialogue, which I can hear the characters speaking in my head. This lends a great deal to the comedy, especially the interplay between Eddie the computer, the talking doors, and of course Marvin.My two criticisms are related. Firstly that there seems to be something missing from the plot - thinking back over the plot I keep feeling there's something I must have missed to pad out the middle. The second is that the ending is incredibly abrupt and resolves absolutely nothing - although I suppose that could be part of the beauty.Overall I've enjoyed reading it again and am looking forward to going back over the whole series in preparation for the release of book 6 next month.

“So long and thanks for all the fish” 😂😂😂I can’t find words to describe the amazing time I had reading this book so I’m going to keep it short or I’ll go on forever. If you’re into sci-fi and clever humor then this is definitely the book for you. Will 10/10 buy the rest. Do yourself a favor and read this. And DON’T PANIC! 😂💜🐟