The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Paperback, 309 pagine

lingua English

Pubblicato il 13 Agosto 2005 da Del Rey Books.

ISBN:
978-0-345-39180-3
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Numero OCLC:
33348186

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Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

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Still brilliant after all those years

5 stelle

It's always strange to read a classic decades after it has become a classic, especially when it comes to Science Fiction or any other form that is heavily dependent on the time it was written.

I've read this book at least five times before, three times in the brilliant German translation by Benjamin Schwarz, and twice in the English original (one of those times in a weird censored American book club edition), and there was never any doubt for me that it was one of the greatest books ever written.

But that was in the 90s, and I hadn't read it in the thirty years since. Getting back to it now was an interesting experience. I knew everything that would happen, but not the precise order and descriptions of it happening. Many of the book's parts felt a bit bland, and there were very few situations that made me laugh …

Je doute voir l'adaptation ciné, ni lire les suites

3 stelle

C'est une journée difficile pour Arthur Dent : d'abord parce qu'il sur le point d'être expulsé en raison d'une démolition programmée de sa maison, ensuite parce que la Terre est également programmée pour être démolie, et en fait, quelques secondes avant qu'elle ne soit effectivement détruite, il est arraché de la planète par un ami, qui est en fait un extraterrestre, dont le travail consistait à faire des recherches pour l'édition révisée du guide du voyageur galactique. Ils se lancent dans une aventure dans l'espace, qui se déroule avec humour et semble s'appuyer uniquement sur des situations chaotiques du début à la fin, dans cette comédie classique de science-fiction sans prétention.

Dans cette parodie d'aventure spatiale, les réponses aux mystères de l'évolution, des galaxies et de la vie sur terre sont données de manière irréaliste et exagérée, comme si l'auteur décidait d'utiliser la science et de la mélanger dans une …

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