The answer to life, the universe, and everything? Simply put, it’s 42. Not only did it take ten million years to get an answer that commonly appears on a fourth grader’s math test, but it also took an incredibly intelligent race on interdimensional mice to discover. Based on that first paragraph alone you should have gotten a taste of the wackiness that goes on in Douglas Adam’s A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This literary work is bursting with comedic “coincidences”, and it’s difficult not to chuckle at the well timed humor. Although this book is full of comedic relief, it never feels like a joke. The comedy is mixed with skillful writing that makes you feel like an adult at least 95% of the time you’re reading this book. As
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After being saved from the destruction of earth, Arthur does what any sensible human from earth would do, break down in a panic attack. The situation, of course, is not helped at all by the second main protagonist, Ford Prefect. Being named after the supposed supreme race on Earth, Ford feels certain that the best way to combat a panic attack is to shout “Don’t Panic” at the one being attacked by panic. This duo forms the one of the most ill-suited groups for any sort of space escapade in history. Armed with nothing but an outdated book, it’s a miracle these characters managed to survive to the end of the book. They literally had to be saved by a machine that makes the most improbable situation imaginable a reality, twice. However, it’s this ineptness that makes them such a relatable duo. If you were swept up into space at this very moment, I can guarantee that the most improbable event you can imagine is your own survival. Within nothing but their wits to them survive, they perfectly model what it would take to survive among aliens. I supposed “perfectly model” isn’t the greatest way to describe their ventures, but everyone needs a little help from an Improbability Drive once in a
After being saved from the destruction of earth, Arthur does what any sensible human from earth would do, break down in a panic attack. The situation, of course, is not helped at all by the second main protagonist, Ford Prefect. Being named after the supposed supreme race on Earth, Ford feels certain that the best way to combat a panic attack is to shout “Don’t Panic” at the one being attacked by panic. This duo forms the one of the most ill-suited groups for any sort of space escapade in history. Armed with nothing but an outdated book, it’s a miracle these characters managed to survive to the end of the book. They literally had to be saved by a machine that makes the most improbable situation imaginable a reality, twice. However, it’s this ineptness that makes them such a relatable duo. If you were swept up into space at this very moment, I can guarantee that the most improbable event you can imagine is your own survival. Within nothing but their wits to them survive, they perfectly model what it would take to survive among aliens. I supposed “perfectly model” isn’t the greatest way to describe their ventures, but everyone needs a little help from an Improbability Drive once in a