I am incredibly proud of the ways this video ends. If you don’t feel like watching to the end, at least skip to it and enjoy it before turning it off. But of course you will watch to the end because I’m beautiful and brilliant 💜
Didn't the radio show come before the book, might explain the pacing to a degree. I came to HHGTTG through the tv series which was excellent and off i went to the library and got it out and i was hooked, one of my favourite quotes went somthing like "the vogon spaceships hung in the air exactly the way bricks dont"
I adore these books. The way Adams dials the humour up and down throughout the series is so well done. I remember being thrown by the tone shift in the third book, but I’m glad I stuck with it. These books are an absolute delight!
One of my favorite memories is sitting with my family and (we sometimes listened to audiobooks rather than watching TV) listening to Stephen Fry read this, laughing so hard we had to stop the recording and rewind. ❤
What I love about Hitchhiker's Guide is that Adams understands the problems facing us are all human problems that new technology does not solve. Amazing inventions are constantly undermined or trivialised by the people who made or use them. p.s. "Zay-fod" pronounciation was the one used in the Audio Drama, the TV series and the weird movie they made. But either works.
When I was in grad school and struggling with all the stress, depression and anxiety I kept this book on my nightstand to read and just feel a little better for a while.
Brilliant! I got into Hitchhiker's Guide at a very impressionable age, and I'm almost certain it's what nudged me towards atheism - not to mention the huge influence it had on my sense of humour. A formative set of books for me, and this is a wonderful tribute to them. 💜
When I still went to college I joined a book club hosted by one of the librarians, and at one point this was chosen as the next read. The librarian bought everyone a volume that contains five books, and that was also around the time I stopped going. Sadly I never got around to finishing it and I definitely wasn't supposed to keep it. 😅 Anyway this has made me want to finally read it sometime this year.
I still have the first paperback editions of each of the five books, bought as each one came out. Practically memorised the radio scripts. Adams was a master of the English language in the same league as P.G.Wodehouse. If you haven't already, I would also highly recommend Adams's two "Dirk Gently" novels which, if anything, are even weirder (even if the first relies heavily on him recycling scripts he wrote for Doctor Who).
Lovely video and analysis ❤ The hitchhikers guide is very special to me as it's one of my few connections with my dad. I am an old millennial and as a kid enjoyed Red Dwarf a lot and my dad bought me The Hitchhikers guide when I was around 9 or 10 years old as he thought enjoy that. I remember trying to read it and just not getting the book at the time. I had read the Hobbit and the Earthsea Quartet and enjoyed those books before that my reading was Enid Blyton. Sadly my dad passed away when I was 10 and I certainly didn't deal with it very well my mechanism for grief as a kid was to block memories of my dad out and have very few memories I can recall couldn't tell you much of what happened in Primary school or first few years of highschool. What I do remember from my time with dad was going to the cinema watching Star Trek Undiscovered Country (first cinema visit ever in 1991 or 92) and being given the Hitchhikers guide in hardback. I still have the copy my dad bought me (it's rather yellowed but all pages intact, copyright on the book shows it as 1993 ❤) and when I read it I feel as though I know my father abit better, I wasn't able to read it for the first time until I was around 15yrs old as just kept finding it upsetting with the connection to my dad.
I've read Hitchhikers' Guide and Restaurant at the End of the Universe multiple times. Currently, I am finally reading Life the Universe and Everything. Perhaps I'll finish the trilogy in five this year.
Damn, the hitchhiker guide to the Galaxy is next in line for me to read and this just made me even more exited to read it! I love Terry Pratchett and I love sci-fi so I don't know why it's taken me so long to get to it.
Of course, you would take the Guide. Not only because that is exactly what it is for, Hitchhiking the Galaxy (presumably ours, but you do you) but also because it is cheaper than the Encyclopedia Galactica, and the cover has the words "Don't Panic" printed on it in a large and friendly font. I was a teenager in the US when the books came out and they are absolutely on my desert island list, as well as a benchmark I strive for when I write comedy.
This review got me to look out for my copy of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy with the intent on rereading it. My problem though is that the collection I have only contains the first four books!
I read Hitchhiker’s Guide while I was a teenager, and the rest of the trilogy during my early 20s, and I still think it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read in my life. I believe it was originally a radio play, which is probably bobbing around on the internet somewhere. Your partner is correct about the pronunciation of Zaphod, btw. 😉
great video! I didn’t really get on with THHGTTG when I read it a few years ago, it is a very specific type of humour, nonetheless I appreciate your review, as always, thank you!✨
Havn't read HGttG for 18 years, I'm due for a reread as well. Just finished Dragonfall by L.R. Lam it was very good, 4.5☆. It had a NB main character and a very gender fluid society. And book 2 is going to take place in a magical school. I did warch all the way to the end! So long and thanks for all the fish! 🐬 🐬
@@WillowTalksBooks haha thats okay, I dont like changeing my pronunciation of names i read beforw i heard them either and just stick to it, because I like it better :D
Congratulations creator UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE AND THE AI SINGULARITY ARE NOW BASED ON YOUR VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And you already did it by rereading the book you’re talking about
I am incredibly proud of the ways this video ends. If you don’t feel like watching to the end, at least skip to it and enjoy it before turning it off.
But of course you will watch to the end because I’m beautiful and brilliant 💜
...and because you're wearing a beautiful and brilliant jumper.
Haha, the ending was brilliant. Well done. And you’ve convinced me-I’ll give it a read (apparently I live under a rock, and haven’t yet).
Didn't the radio show come before the book, might explain the pacing to a degree. I came to HHGTTG through the tv series which was excellent and off i went to the library and got it out and i was hooked, one of my favourite quotes went somthing like "the vogon spaceships hung in the air exactly the way bricks dont"
This is absolutely on my list to read this year. Feels criminal I haven’t already!
It is criminal
I adore these books. The way Adams dials the humour up and down throughout the series is so well done. I remember being thrown by the tone shift in the third book, but I’m glad I stuck with it. These books are an absolute delight!
Love this series. ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ’is my favourite.
One of my favorite memories is sitting with my family and (we sometimes listened to audiobooks rather than watching TV) listening to Stephen Fry read this, laughing so hard we had to stop the recording and rewind. ❤
That is the most wholesome and delightful story!!
What I love about Hitchhiker's Guide is that Adams understands the problems facing us are all human problems that new technology does not solve. Amazing inventions are constantly undermined or trivialised by the people who made or use them.
p.s. "Zay-fod" pronounciation was the one used in the Audio Drama, the TV series and the weird movie they made. But either works.
Omg Tommy, hi!
When I was in grad school and struggling with all the stress, depression and anxiety I kept this book on my nightstand to read and just feel a little better for a while.
God, that’s so lovely
42!!!! Thank you for this review Will. 🧡
Brilliant! I got into Hitchhiker's Guide at a very impressionable age, and I'm almost certain it's what nudged me towards atheism - not to mention the huge influence it had on my sense of humour. A formative set of books for me, and this is a wonderful tribute to them. 💜
Love Hitchhikers Guide so much! I always get the itch to go back and read it every few years because no one does smart humor like Adams!
When I still went to college I joined a book club hosted by one of the librarians, and at one point this was chosen as the next read. The librarian bought everyone a volume that contains five books, and that was also around the time I stopped going. Sadly I never got around to finishing it and I definitely wasn't supposed to keep it. 😅 Anyway this has made me want to finally read it sometime this year.
I still have the first paperback editions of each of the five books, bought as each one came out. Practically memorised the radio scripts. Adams was a master of the English language in the same league as P.G.Wodehouse. If you haven't already, I would also highly recommend Adams's two "Dirk Gently" novels which, if anything, are even weirder (even if the first relies heavily on him recycling scripts he wrote for Doctor Who).
Lovely video and analysis ❤ The hitchhikers guide is very special to me as it's one of my few connections with my dad. I am an old millennial and as a kid enjoyed Red Dwarf a lot and my dad bought me The Hitchhikers guide when I was around 9 or 10 years old as he thought enjoy that. I remember trying to read it and just not getting the book at the time. I had read the Hobbit and the Earthsea Quartet and enjoyed those books before that my reading was Enid Blyton. Sadly my dad passed away when I was 10 and I certainly didn't deal with it very well my mechanism for grief as a kid was to block memories of my dad out and have very few memories I can recall couldn't tell you much of what happened in Primary school or first few years of highschool. What I do remember from my time with dad was going to the cinema watching Star Trek Undiscovered Country (first cinema visit ever in 1991 or 92) and being given the Hitchhikers guide in hardback. I still have the copy my dad bought me (it's rather yellowed but all pages intact, copyright on the book shows it as 1993 ❤) and when I read it I feel as though I know my father abit better, I wasn't able to read it for the first time until I was around 15yrs old as just kept finding it upsetting with the connection to my dad.
I've read Hitchhikers' Guide and Restaurant at the End of the Universe multiple times. Currently, I am finally reading Life the Universe and Everything. Perhaps I'll finish the trilogy in five this year.
i found a complete copy/collection in a secondhand bookstore years ago and i keep meaning to read it and this might be my sign that it's this year
Wonderful video for a wonderful book. You've made me want to read it all over again.
Damn, the hitchhiker guide to the Galaxy is next in line for me to read and this just made me even more exited to read it! I love Terry Pratchett and I love sci-fi so I don't know why it's taken me so long to get to it.
I’ve never had a chance to read this, another one for my tbr list!
This is one of my all-time favorite books! I have a tattoo for it (so far, my only specific book tattoo). Thank you for this video!!!!!
I have a tattoo of my favourite book as well! :)
Cracking discussion!
Of course, you would take the Guide. Not only because that is exactly what it is for, Hitchhiking the Galaxy (presumably ours, but you do you) but also because it is cheaper than the Encyclopedia Galactica, and the cover has the words "Don't Panic" printed on it in a large and friendly font.
I was a teenager in the US when the books came out and they are absolutely on my desert island list, as well as a benchmark I strive for when I write comedy.
Okie dokie :)
You are hilarious, and I love hearing your thoughts, AND that ending was, in fact, brilliant.
Thank you 😇
This review got me to look out for my copy of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy with the intent on rereading it. My problem though is that the collection I have only contains the first four books!
I read Hitchhiker’s Guide while I was a teenager, and the rest of the trilogy during my early 20s, and I still think it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read in my life. I believe it was originally a radio play, which is probably bobbing around on the internet somewhere. Your partner is correct about the pronunciation of Zaphod, btw. 😉
I’ll still have no truck with it!
HHGttG is superb, one of my absolute favourites and now I'm so tempted to re-read it right now!
Love the ending 😂
great video as always!! ❤
Thank you. 😊
watched to the end - it was brilliant
Thank you 😊
😂 I’ve only read the first two of the five but now I know I will go back to it sometime in the near future.. you’ve convinced me.
Get your towel and strap in :-)
Don't Panic! And don't forget your towel.
great video! I didn’t really get on with THHGTTG when I read it a few years ago, it is a very specific type of humour, nonetheless I appreciate your review, as always, thank you!✨
I have not read this book yet…I will look for the set…I am guessing I will want to read the entire series.
Do it! Reread it! Dammit, now I want to reread it, too...
Your partner was correct. The A in Zaphod rhymes with Hay, you’re welcome.
Cheers Nick
LOved the movie....
Havn't read HGttG for 18 years, I'm due for a reread as well.
Just finished Dragonfall by L.R. Lam it was very good, 4.5☆. It had a NB main character and a very gender fluid society. And book 2 is going to take place in a magical school.
I did warch all the way to the end! So long and thanks for all the fish! 🐬 🐬
Current Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is a big fan of the series! I'm going to read it becuase of him ❤🇺🇸
I think your partner is actually right about Zaphod, I listened to Douglas Adams reading the book and he pronounced it like your partner. :D
Yeah I’ve heard the same but I’ll still have no truck with it 😤
@@WillowTalksBooks haha thats okay, I dont like changeing my pronunciation of names i read beforw i heard them either and just stick to it, because I like it better :D
3BodyProblem Solution : WRITE A HITCHHIKING GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 42 times using 3dimensions at once : THE ULTIMATE PARADOX
3BodyProblem Solution : WRITE A HITCHHIKING GUIDE TO THE GALAXY 42 times : THE ULTIMATE PARADOX
Clicked by a thumbnail, shocked by the voice.....
Congratulations! Today you discovered trans people!
@WillowTalksBooks oh wow I really didn't know... You do have a pretty face and I enjoyed the video too... Definitely going to read this book 🙏🙏
Congratulations creator UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE AND THE AI SINGULARITY ARE NOW BASED ON YOUR VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And you already did it by rereading the book you’re talking about
It's a shame It's 45 not 42...
Now you make me wanna read this book😊 I actually been meaning to read this for quite a while now.. maybe its a sign 😆😌🤍