The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

, #1

mass market paperback, 215 pages

English language

Published Oct. 13, 1981 by Pocket Books.

ISBN:
978-0-671-43241-6
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OCLC Number:
1035621482

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IF TOM ROBBINS AND KURT VONNEGUT HAD A SON, THIS IS THE BOOK HE WOULD WRITE!

But he'd get sued down to his skivvies because Douglas Adams has already written it!

AND...

It's the wildest, funniest novel to come along in the last ten years.

Maybe fifteen.

Well...twelve, anyway.

Why, it's about the end of the world and the happy-go-lucky days that follow it...about the very worst Thursday that ever happened, and why the universe is a lot safer if you bring a towel...

If you haven't heard of it before, you're hearing about it now.

And this is just the Beginning. --back cover

92 editions

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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