What's so great about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
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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!
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!!
Love this series. ‘So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ’is my favourite.
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!
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
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!
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. 💜
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.
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! :)
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!
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 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).
Hitchhiker's Guide is probably the book series I can credit most with getting interested in reading. I remember hearing my cousins copy of the radio play version and needing more, begging my mam to get it out of the library for me and tearing through the entire thing of christmas and new years. There's an exchange in the book that I absolute adore between Ford and Arthur explaining what hyperspace feels like...
"It's unpleasantly like being drunk"
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
To which Ford replies "You ask a glass of water"
It genuinely took me years to realise that while Arthur took it to mean intoxicated, Ford meant it to be swallowed like a liquid
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
Cracking discussion!
Wonderful video for a wonderful book. You've made me want to read it all over again.
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!
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!
You are hilarious, and I love hearing your thoughts, AND that ending was, in fact, brilliant.
Thank you 😇
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 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.
great video as always!! ❤
watched to the end - it was brilliant
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.
Get your towel and strap in :-)
I’ve never had a chance to read this, another one for my tbr list!
HHGttG is superb, one of my absolute favourites and now I'm so tempted to re-read it right now!
Love the ending 😂
😂 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.
Don't Panic! And don't forget your towel.
Do it! Reread it! Dammit, now I want to reread it, too...
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
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! 🐬 🐬
Your partner was correct. The A in Zaphod rhymes with Hay, you’re welcome.
Cheers Nick
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!✨
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 😆😌🤍