Completion Date: Unknown :'(
Rating: <3
Number of Pages: HHG - 215, REOU - 208, TOTAL - 423
Most Memorable Quote: Since I'm reviewing two books here, I'm just going to do one quote for each book.
Hitchhiker's Guide:
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
"Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you." - The only thing I can think to say about this quote is: LOL.
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
"'Have some sense of proportion!' she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.
And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.
And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.
To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."
-- I would love to be in Douglas Adams' brain for 5 minutes. How on Earth does he even think of something like that? I'd imagine my brain would probably explode if I saw "the whole infinity of creation and myself in relation to it." I'm thinking I'll build a Total Perspective Vortex next Tuesday, what do you think? :P
Aaanyway. Those quotes were mostly just to show how clever and wonderful these books are. Because seriously, they are freakin' hilarious.
Hitchhiker's Guide and Restaurant at the End of the Universe are kind of mind blowing, I'm not going to lie! With all the made up words and species and confusing terminology, this guy created his own universe that I've spent 2 books trying to understand. I sometimes have to read over things 3 or 4 times to finally comprehend what is trying to be said.
I really love the characters in these books. You've got a snobby British guy; a pompous, arrogant guy with two heads; a depressed, self-loathing robot; an alien hitchhiker; and one SEMI-normal girl; and they're all stuck together on a spaceship that makes the most improbable things happen. Absolutely genius.
I love the ship and the talking equipment. Every inanimate object speaks and has feelings in these books. One of my favorite parts of Hitchhiker's Guide was when Arthur tried to explain tea and get the ship to work with the drink maker to create it. The ship had to shut down and focus it's full attention to the task, almost killing them, until it finally figured it out. Arthur described the final product as "the best tea he'd ever drunk." The ship was very self-satisfied.
I was amazed at the extreme randomness of these books. Going through the thought process of a whale as it's plummeting to the surface of a planet from space is not something you see in every book; appealing to a foreign alien's desire for independence in order to prevent them from throwing you into the deep abyss of space is not an idea authors normally consider. Douglas Adams simply went where no one else COULD have gone and it astounds me. WHAT WAS HE THINKING WHEN HE WROTE THIS?
If you love sarcasm and dry humor and hate logic, you will love these books. Luckily I do, and I was laughing 95% of the time. But along with the hilarity, this series (thus far) is just absolutely BRILLIANT. The syntax, the word choice, the metaphors, the symbolism...it's all in there and it makes the books remarkable.
Wow, this is a choppy entry. haha. I just can't eloquently describe why these books give me so much joy. Probably because these books aren't eloquent. But they are still fantastic and I vote EVERYONE reads them. I'm sure they had their flaws, but I was too busy laughing to notice them.
So, with that, the answer is 42. :)
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P.S. The reason I'm writing this now and combining these two books in the series is because I will not be reading the next one in the Hitchhiker's series for a while. With English books and my own personal reading, I just don't have time to hit up the next one yet.
P.P.S. I don't have the completion date on here because my dad threw away my list of completed books that I had written down on paper. I had the date on there...but now it's lost and gone forever. :'( I'm very upset about it. Worst thing to ever happen to an OC, let me just say...
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