cool and funny part of the book

one of my favorite parts of this book is when ford perfect and arthur dent hitch a ride on one of the vogon ships. because vogons speak an entirely different language than humans, ford puts a creature called a fish (which is also leech-like) into arthur's ear. the fish translates what the vogons are saying. i like this because it was kind of a cool part of the book.

book review: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a sci-fi story that is now very popular and has a television series and a movie. It is about a small band of characters named Arthur Dent, Ford Perfect, Trillian, Zaphod Breeblebrox, and a depressed robot named Marvin. In the book, Arthur is taken from earth literally seconds before it is completely destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. He and Ford Perfect then hitch a ride on a vogon (vogons are aliens that have horrible poetry, which they use to torture prisoners) ship to get away from earth. From then on, they spend an entire book going through space having weird and wacky adventures. Overall, an okay book. But there is one part that is pretty mind boggling. A giant computer tells us the meaning of life (which in the book is called "the great question") and says the answer of the great question is "42". I got a little confused at this. What does this mean? Why is the meaning of life the number 42? But anyway, this book was pretty cool. I do recommend.

Tim

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Is a novel about a group of characters (Arthur Dent, Ford Perfect, Zaphod BeebLerox, and Trillian.) going through space having weird and wacky adventures. the author of this book is Douglas Adams. throughout the book, there are short little segments from the "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy" that explain funny things that we didn't know, which is a funny little part of the book that comes every couple chapters. (spoiler alert!!) the "meaning of life" scene in the book was rather dissapointing, though. what does the number 42 have to do with the meaning of life? what does it mean? please comment if you know or think you know what it means.

Connection to book through song

 The link below is a song on youtube called still alive, by Lisa Miskovsky. This song has a connection to the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, because in the book it talks about how Earth gets destroyed. When Earth gets destroyed two Hithhikers named Arthur and Ford hitchhike off the planet. They are then the only survivors of Earth(even thought Ford is an alien). The two of them are still alive, while others aren't. In the song still alive it talks about the feelings that go through your mind while being the last people who are still alive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JofmaI4X4Sk

Hitchhikers guidee to the galaxy setting

In the book the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams the setting of the story takes place on the planet Earth. The main character Arhtur Dent lives in a house looking over the West country farmland. His house is in a small village/town. But then aliens destroy the Earth and everyone on it, except of course the main character Arthur, and his best friend Ford. They escape the Earth by hitchhiking a ride on the Vogon ship that blew up the Earth. The setting then changes into being on a Vogon ship traveling across the galaxy.

#1: Cool Thing

A cool part in the book is at page 180. I like it because it is kind of funny. Loonquawl and Phouchg are waiting for the computer called Deep Thought to tell them what the answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything. The computer keeps on asking them are you ready for the answer and telling them that they are not going to like it but they just keep on asking for it. After all the tension and waiting it finally tells them the answer is Forty-Two. It is cool that you think that this computer is going to tell you the real answer but it just says 42.