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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Review Recently I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. This book was published by Portland House in 1997. The Hitchhiker’s Guide of the Galaxy is considered science fiction and has 143 pages. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is about Arthur Dent and his adventures in space with Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian, and Marvin the Paranoid Android.

The setting in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was on a Thursday morning in England by a house. For example, in the book it says,”the story of this terrible, stupid Thursday… begins with a house”(pg.6). The author decided to tell the story in third person point of view. A narrator is telling its point of view. Arthur Dent
Then, his friend Ford Prefect, who is an alien from Betelgeuse, tells him that the world is ending and to get drunk. Suddenly, a Vogon ship appear and is about to destroy the Earth to build an interstellar bypass. Then, Ford and Arthur jump onto a Vogon ship, and then they get thrown off the ship by Vogons who hate hitchhikers. Meanwhile, Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox and a woman named Trillian steal The Heart of Gold (AKA Deus Ex Machina), and it randomly teleports to the exact location of the guys in space. Zaphod tells Marvin the Paranoid Android to pick up the hitchhikers, and the robot does so. Zaphod leaves them on the ship, since he knows them, and tells them he wants to find the recently disappeared, planet-building planet, Magrathea because he’s insane. The ship somehow teleports to this place and then missiles fire to the ship and Arthur hits the teleporting button to the change the missiles to whales. They land onto the planet and go into the core. Finally, Arthur finds a man named Slartibartfast, and he uncovers the truth of the Earth. To find out the ending you will need to read the book.

In the novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, my favorite part was when Slartibartfast said that the meaning of life was 42. One of the best lines the author wrote was “The Answer to the Great Question… is… forty-two”(pg.120) because it give

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