The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 • 323 pages

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15

So I read up other people's reviews to make sure I was not insane. Nope, not me! The book is insane. This book is such a classic - I had heard of it for so long and was thrilled to start reading it. But a few pages in, the confusion started mounting. I will admit, there were some really good quotable life-quotes and there was some strange humour throughout. But I rank this just slightly above the One Hundred Years of Solitude book. Both books are totally barmy! Both feel like they were written by authors who couldn't fully make up their minds. This one at least has some humour to it and the writing is, in parts, definitely superior; and that's the only reason it ranks above OHYS. 

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