Review of Douglas Adams' "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

(Written: July 2, 2011)

A very exciting and strange read. It’s very British: the humor, the style, the context, it's very FUNNY, and it's very well written. In fact, it's so well written that you want to quote every single sentence. Literally. The book is over 800 pages long, so imagine the amount of quotes it contains.

Since this was a radio show & was broken into periodic radio casts, the listener had time to digest and rest from it. Reading it as a book is a different matter: at times I got really tired of his style, even though I did see how clever and creative it was: too much of anything is never good. Some parts of it even got me a bit annoyed, but again, maybe because I was reading it as a whole, without breaks.

For any reader that’s looking for a "linear" plot and less “English-ness” - maybe you should reconsider reading it altogether.

But most of all I liked seeing how Douglas Adams grew as a person throughout his work. The last two books became less, per say, “funny” and more profound. Very profound. He stopped making me laugh as much; instead he made me think on life more, dishing out aphorism after aphorism, without breaking his style or the language.

That’s a very hard thing to do. Bravo. 4 stars.