The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
By Douglas Adams
irreverence.
Silly, the book definitely was. It tells the story of an ordinary Earthling, Arthur Dent, who is swept off the plant by his friend, Ford Prefect, who, it turns out, isn't an Earthling but a visitor from space doing research on our plant for the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The sweeping happens just in time, at precisely the moment that earth is destroyed to make way for an interstellar super highway -- which, it turns out, wasn't actually necessary.
It's that type of absurdity/bureaucratic parody that runs through the book. It's been a bit of a slog for me, to be honest, as the plot makes no attempt at realism. Even though I just finished it, I don't really know what happened. Guess I'm not sure what all the fuss is about.
