as previously mentioned, i've been having trouble getting into books this month. i've been meaning to give this book a re-read for quite a while, and this seemed like an apt time.
arthur dent is all that remains of earth when an alien race decides to blow the planet up to make way for a galactic superhighway. he is is rescued by his friend, ford prefect, a space traveller from betelgeuse who was stranded on earth where he was conducting research for the titular publication.
this book is hilarious and imaginative. god disappears in a poof of logic, a suicidally depressed robot saves the day, earth is merely a experiment run by superintelligent mice and the president of the galaxy is a two-headed, three-armed idiot.
nothing really comes to a conclusion at the end, but having read the series previously, i'm not in a panic to find out what happens next.
selected quotes:
"Time is an illusion. Lunch doubly so."
"It must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
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