Mass market paperback, 215 pages
English language
Published March 3, 1984 by Pocket Books.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months.The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia.
OK, I got going on this again but in my defense, it's a collection of several novels. I wouldn't say it's great sci-fi, and it's weird to see Arthur Dent in playboy mode (which reminds me, did we lose a character?) but as someone who listened to the original radio series, it feels like obligatory reading, and now I know what happened to everyone. Sort of.
Je sais que c'est un classique, je suis familier avec l'humour anglais, mais j'ai vraiment du mal avec ce livre, je l'ai trouvé long, un peu lourd. Bref, je n'ai pas apprécié.
