In Life, the Universe and Everything, the third title in Douglas Adams' blockbusting sci-fi comedy series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent finds himself enlisted to prevent a galactic war.
Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory
manifestations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: radio,
novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath
towel. He lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron
of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International.
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and
daughter in Islington, London, before moving to Santa Barbara,
California, where he died suddenly in 2001.
In addition to Hitchhiker, He is also the author of the Dirk Gently
novels: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea
Time of the Soul and the unfinished The Salmon of Doubt.
One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering
genius
*David Walliams*
Dazzlingly inventive
*Caitlin Moran*
Fizzing with ideas . . . Brilliant
*Charlie Brooker*
I haven’t known many geniuses in my life. Some brilliantly smart
people, but only a tiny handful would I class as geniuses. I would
class Douglas, because he saw things differently, and he was
capable of communicating the way he saw things, and once he
explained things the way he saw them, it was almost impossible to
see them the way you used to see them
*Neil Gaiman*
It changed my whole life. It's literally out of this world
*Tom Baker*
Really entertaining and fun
*Michael Palin*
Hitchhiker’s is packed with that unique energy, all barmy and
bristling and bold. This book can be witty, iconoclastic, godless,
savage, sweet, surreal, but above all, it dares to be silly.
Fiercely, beautifully silly
*Russell T. Davies, writer and producer of Doctor
Who*
He had almost a Wodehousian style and some of his phrases and jokes
entered our language. He changed the way people spoke
*Stephen Fry*
There has never been another writer remotely like Douglas Adams. He
discovered a completely new genre – scientific wit – and having
discovered it he raised it to dizzying heights
*Tony Robinson*
Quite good I suppose, if you like brilliantly entertaining books
written with a touch of imaginative genius
*Griff Rhys Jones*
Very occasionally a book comes along that changes the way you laugh
and what you laugh about
*Richard Dawkins*
One of the world’s sanest, smartest, kindest, funniest voices
*Independent on Sunday*
Sheer delight
*The Times*
Magical . . . read this book
*Sunday Express*
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