Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
348621
Great fun, only trouble is that I can only listen to it when I'm alone, since my wife does not u=understand any of this!
628137
Nearly every aspect of this book reminded me of a much better book - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and its sequels, all of which I enjoyed much more than Faster than Light.  Not that this book isn't amusing and clever, but compared to Hitchhiker's, "its good parts aren't original, and its original parts aren't good."  I recommend this book for SF fans who have not read Hitchhiker's, and I urge all those who read Faster than Light first to read Hitchhiker's next.
1107491
This is a beautifully bound book.  A momento to true art itself, and something to keep in the family for many many years to come.  The book itself is amazing.  Douglas Adams was a genious whose mind is like non-other.  The story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, truly is a wholly remarkable book.  If only the book were real.
2480329
Detailed description of major and key points of wars in the star wars universe great reference guide
4659533
No doubt about it: Douglas Adams'&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Hitchhiker-s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy/dp/1563892715/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a>&nbsp;and its sequel&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Restaurant-at-the-End-of-the-Universe/dp/0345418921/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Restaurant at the End of the Universe</a>&nbsp;were five-star novels. Anyone would want to read these laugh-out-loud funny books you'd again and again. But the third book in Adams' series, while amusing, doesn't prove to be as good.

Sure, there are some funny scenes, such as when Arthur Dent braves killer robots to return to a cricket field to deposit ashes. (Any more details on that would spoil the novel.) Life, the Universe, and Everything also shows Arthur Dent gaining confidence and coming into his own in his new life. But whereas the first two novels were uproariously funny and quite clever, Life, the Universe, and Everything feels tired and the plotting careens from chaotically comic to just chaotically confusing. It's worth reading, but don't get your expectations too high.
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"The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" is a fun movie that mostly captures Douglas Adams's&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Hitchhiker-s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy/dp/B000XUBC2C/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</a>&nbsp;best elements.

No plot spoilers from me: the story follows Athur Dent, a mostly clueless human that gets thrust into interstellar adventure, and galactic politics when is alien best friend, a highly improbable human love interest, and even the president of the universe, Zaphod Beeblebrox. There are so many subtle gags, play on words, and just off-ball humor that it is hard not to find something to like, but not necessarily take too seriously.

This is a fun movie and I enjoyed watching it before going back and reading the books.

Recommended!

CFH
3984293
Like the other Star Wars: Essential Guide books this book allows you to see what ships that featured in the many books looked like. A lot of the familier ships are here TIEs, X-Wings, Mon Cal Cruisers and Star Destroyers along with many unfamilier vessels Dreadnoughts, Victory Star Destroyers and Cloakshape fighters including several vessels from the books that covered the period some 10,000 or so years before the films. Giving manufacturer names, specifacations and some facts about each craft this book is useful if you ever wanted to know a little more about the Star Wars ships and vehicles.
However this book does have some flaws. It gives the size of the Executor SSD at 8,000 meters, it has since been agreed that the Executor is closer to 18.5 KMs in length LARGER that the Eclipse by a full kilometer Lucas himself has apparently confirmed this. Also the Victory and Imperial Star Destroyers have the pictures mixed up.
Apart from these flaws it is an interesting book.
716908
This is the best sci-fi fun read since Hitch hikers Guide to the Galaxy  and Red Dwarf. Hugely enjoyable and I read all 11 books in under 4 weeks .

I can't wait for the next one!
2141975
I'll recommend buying "The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy " instead of this book (because it includes the complete collection of Doglas Adams) in case you don't care about the movie and interviews with the actors so much.
3250259
Alec Baldwin takes us on a journey through space. We see Neil Armstrong's footprints on the moon. Then it is on to Venus, Mercury and the sun. To Mars and the search for extraterrestrial life. The gas giants and Pluto. Interstellar space. Alpha Centauri 25 trillion miles away. Gliese 581. Algol. The Pleiades. Betelgeuse. Orion Nebula. Star birth. White dwarf. Crab Nebula. Supernova. Pulsar spinning 30 times a second. Black hole. Hypernova. We are outside the Milky Way in intergalactic space. Dark matter. Andromeda Galaxy. We see patterns, order in the chaos. Quasar. Countless galaxies. Light. The Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. Baldwin ties mythology and science together with a sense of awe.
263156
A tour de force by Heinlein. He gets in a little of his personal philosophy, but does not detract from the storyline as he does so. Some of the references to Mars' topology and possible life-forms were pure speculation at the time of writing, but have been negated by recent spacecraft determinations. Still, with a little "suspension of disbelief," the story itself is quite enjoyable.
1813420
Tho the construction of the paperback is not as good as I would expect, the book is wonderfully written. As do nearly all of the Dune books, House Harkonnen keeps you on edge wondering what will be next for your favorite heroes and villains. Being over 700 pages long the book is unwieldy as a paperback. The weird size is overshadowed by the amount and quality of it's contents. I would recommend this book, and the entire series to anyone wishing to lose themselves in a futuristic science fiction galaxy.
2724936
Classic tale in the Hitchhiker series from Adams. British humor at it's finest in the SF genre.
3571499
From a review of the best beautiful astronomy & space books, on my Xanga blog AeroGo (see profile for info):

"[A] quite impressive book from the UK is Giles Sparrow's Cosmos: A Field Guide, a very large hardback. Besides the many large illustrations of various sorts, such as the Himalayas from space, a scale of Saturn's rings and moons, and many beautiful planetary nebulae, Cosmos has the best depiction I've seen of the universe as a whole. This is done (pp. 204-5) with a fascinating series of depictions of our own galactic cluster and how it fits into larger clusters and superclusters.

The creators of Cosmos are also to be commended for their good taste in putting one of my favorites, the Sombrero Galaxy, on the cover. In all, this book is an outstanding coffee table book, and about big enough to be a coffee table!"
4357477
I listened to this on audible, but it deserves a book review.
Take the characters from Star Wars and put them into the Universe of Hitchhiker's Guide and add a bit of Idiocracy and you've got this book.  Rex is Han Solo with a lot more flaws.

For the most part it is meant to be funny and generally accomplishes that.  More than once I laughed out loud.

There's a few action packed parts too which are done well.

I hope there's a sequel to this.
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Being a big fan of Star Wars, and a HUGE fan of this show in particular, I gave away my Hodge-poge of discs and got this series. A very good move. The episode guide is very convenient. All 5 seasons are included, the movie is NOT, nor are the lost episodes.
4914210
A Fantastic book,  My parents had purchased me a copy when I was a child and I loved it.  After watching the first episode of magic school bus (they explore our solar system) on Netflix my 4 year became fascinated with space so I bought him a used copy.  My one regret is that the copy was supposed to be very good and is instead  falling apart.  I guess when I paid .69 what did I expect.  Don't let my bad experience dampen your expectations.  It is a great book to explore space with your children.