One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very strange and startling place.

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5 hours and 51 minutes
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Douglas Adams
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Stephen Fry
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1 January 2012
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English
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Macmillan Digital Audio
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	5 hours and 51 minutes
Author	Douglas Adams
Narrator	Stephen Fry
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	01 January 2012
Publisher	Macmillan Digital Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NPB5YXE
Best Sellers Rank	68 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Humourous Fiction 4 in Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 5 in Military Fantasy (Books)

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Rebecca

First time reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Reviewed in Australia on 12 August 2020

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I wish I had read this a long time ago... but I would not have enjoyed or understood it back when I thought that life was about getting things done and keeping up appearances. Then again, I probably needed it back then. So I recommend this book for those who do and don't think that life is about getting things done and keeping up appearances.
I have given this book 5 stars because yesterday my partner and I started to argue about how much water to boil the pasta in, then I remembered this book and we just enjoyed the pasta together.

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There's a reason why it's a classic

Reviewed in Australia on 14 June 2021

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Classic Brit humour, in space. (If you don't appreciation sarcasm, dry wit and a sense of the ridiculous this is NOT the book for you).

Not sure what else to say about this book - have read it so many times over the years I've lost all identification with my first impressions.

All I can tell you is that after all this time I still find lol moments and aspects I'd not noticed before. Like all classics one's appreciation grows with each reread.

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Edwin Jacob

Everybody should own a copy of this book!

Reviewed in Australia on 13 June 2019

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Funny, WItty, Crazy and Insanely imaginative. This book by Douglas Adams surprised me the first time I read it because I had never read anything like it before. I had read the book multiple times ever since and went on to purchase the audiobook (which has excellent narration by Stephen Fry)

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Michael Moore

Had a problem with it.

Reviewed in Australia on 13 August 2020

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This is my first foray into the Hitchhickers books, but i have watched the two versions on telly, so here we go.

I found the first of the Hitchhikers books a fine read, that is about as diplomatic as i can be.

Michael

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Didn't realise I was getting parts of a series, am disappointed

Reviewed in Australia on 12 May 2022

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Didn't realise I was getting parts of a series, am disappointed. Oh well, waste of money. As technically one complete book that I paid for, not great.

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Jasmine Campbell

Just a Wonderful, Creative, Bizarre and Hilarious Classic.

Reviewed in Australia on 7 August 2019

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Brilliant, have read at least 42 times. Recommend to everyone of any age so that this story doesn't get lost through time.

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Guy Hargreaves

How much fun!!!

Reviewed in Australia on 16 February 2021

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I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to find this little gem!! Loving it, great narration from Stephen Fry. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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A Re-read

Reviewed in Australia on 9 September 2021

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Laugh out loud just what you need right now to distract - probably better the second time around

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Mr. M. Harris

Always struggled with this book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2021

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I have always struggled with this book. I was 13 when it came out. A big fan of Monty Python, NTNN everyone was reading it and I tried but failed to get past... well, wherever it was at the time.

Curiously I know all the names of the characters and their peccadilloes and could chat with friends about them knowingly sharing the in-jokes of a dedicated reader.

I tried again in my 30s thinking that I’d better fill in the gaps, but again failed.

I’ve just finished it after the third try. Lucky? Not sure. I can still see why I could not make progress in the past as it was just as hard to pick up this time around. I have read four books since the beginning of the year and this was the hardest.

Why didn’t you I get on with this book? It’s not that I don’t embrace silly, or there weren’t chuckle moments but after much deep thought, the answer to the question has to be: ‘I can’t put my finger on it.’

Don’t let that put you off.

13 people found this helpful

Michelle

1 star

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2020

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Yeah, I'm not the intended audience for this book, with a male dominanted cast in space I was never going to be able to relate.

I'd heard great things but I couldn't get into it, my mind kept drifting, i looked for the humor but couldn't find it (was it where the British guy wanted a cup of tea on a spaceship?).

It just didn't hold my attention im afraid which is a shame as its such a cult classic.

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Suziey

Hyperspeed straight to Red Dwarf!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 April 2020

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Didn't enjoy this book at all. Two stars for the original concept only. The writing style and language seems forced and contrived which only serves to override any empathy that the reader may have had for the characters. This equates to a lack of reliability and I found I just didnt care what happened to them the further I read on. The humour has dated badly and it appears to be written for teenagers who want to learn how to read lengthly/ pointless made up words in a desparate attempt to sound more intelligent. Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick to Red Dwarf!

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Paul Durrant

Almost as good as the Radio Series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2017

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This review is for the current (2017) ebook edition.

A splendidly funny and silly book, quite a successful novelisation of the Radio Series.

Note that the extracts from the archives come right at the end of Chapter 35, and are interesting, especially the fax from Douglas to the American script editor, explaining why some things shouldn't be changed. For some reason, they're not listed in the table of contents.

23 people found this helpful

Mr. M. Sotiriadis

Fairly entertaining!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 August 2020

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Perhaps I'm rating this book only with three stars out of five only because of my age since I'm currently 36 and I believe I should have read this book when I was about 15 to 25 at the most so I could properly and fully appreciate it.

Most of it sounded, in my head, like extremely well improvised, composed and delivered gibberish and not much more than that.

To be absolutely fair, this might simply not be my type of humor, hence my not finding it truly funny or amusing, although there were about three to five at the most instances throughout the book that did instigate that LOL outburst.

All in all, it is a pretty decent read. Particularly for the ages around 20 or less.
However, specifically with regards to all the hype surrounding this book, I, personally, couldn't possibly justify it.

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