The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Digital Audio

English language

Published July 21, 2011 by Books on Tape.

ISBN:
978-0-7393-4936-6
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OCLC Number:
1056982061

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Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of the original radio show on which the book was based. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod's girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all …

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Divertido disparate improbable

Sí, el libro sigue fresco. Y sigue siendo solo para las personas que disfrutan de lo absurdo (mundodisco, etc.). Si tienes dudas sobre si te gustará, yo me leería un artículo de los de El Mundo Today (entero, más allá del titular), porque este libro en realidad no es más que una sucesión de tonterías gordas. La serie de Futurama también bebe de esto, para que tengáis referencias.

A la vez, lo que destaca del libro es precisamente eso: el compromiso con la tontería, con el absurdo y la imaginación, porque todo está bien atado. Puede suceder y sucede cualquier cosa. Las más improbables. Pero todo está atado. Todo tiene una coherencia, y dar coherencia al disparate no es sencillo, y menos cuando se consigue adivinar una trama mayor.

En resumen, si disfrutas del disparate, bienvenide porque es todo un viaje.

A book I keep returning to.

How many times have I read this book? 10? 20? Audiobooks read by multiple narrators, the single edition of the book, the collected trilogy, the collected trilogy in four parts, all the different radio plays, the re-collected trilogy in five parts, the Vogon poetry tributes, etc.

Yet, still, I encounter things I don't remember.

How is it that I can't just quote it, verbatim from memory at this point?

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