Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

When you say 'the book' do you mean books 1-5 or actually just the first? I forget how book one ends, actually. Book 5's ending was hardly a copout though. That was kind of the opposite I felt, taking full responsibility, leaving no wiggle room for the series. A tad dark though.

>>8911076
Honestly, I didn't even know there was a fifth book until like, 3 minutes ago. I thought there was only 4.

Thoughts on Eoin Colfer 's addition?

>>8911071
It is for children and quirky redditors. I regret not having read it in my childhood yet I have no desire to read it now

>>8911071
This was originally a radio play, and is best experienced as a radio play.

Imagine trying to read Monty Python's Flying Circus.

>>8911114
Fanfiction written by someone who has never written fanfiction before.

>>8911071
Honestly?

Reddit.

I don't know how to feel about these books. I enjoy the humor but for some reason I find it really hard to read them for more than a few pages at a time.

>>8911071

I am happy to have read the whole thing two or three times, so as to have the relevant piece of culture. I also seem to remember finding parts of it genuinely funny, so much so that I'll go a step further: I think that this will be a meme-book that will actually continue to be read by a very small audience in another one or two hundred years. I think that the text deals with enough basics of the human condition, and that it is now popular enough, that it will continue to be a curiosity for at least the next several decades.

Still, I appreciate the detractors now more than I did when I was younger.

OP: seek out the short story "young zaphod plays it safe", which is a companion to the larger corpus. Nothing huge I don't think, just another minor part of the mythos.