The Guide

One of the greatest series of books every written is the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. The books are very creative science fiction but more importantly, they are hilarious. I have read them 7 or 8 times and if I read them again now I would fall down from laughing so hard. Here are a few samples of the kind of things that are in those great books:



"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
[Ford Prefect:] "Why, what did she tell you?"
[Arthur:] "I don't know, I didn't listen."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


"If I ever meet myself," said Zaphod, "I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me."
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe


For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.