County Library: Fiction
Hickhikers Guide to the Galaxy (HG2G)
Don't Panic! It's Mostly Harmless.
It's most of the Museblog's favorite book. Our World Dominion plan is named for the 5th book in the trilogy/ What the guide calls the earth.
TMFA
http://www.musefanpage.com/blog
submitted by The Man For Aeiou, age 13, Capital of Museica/Out at sea on the Blackfooted Ferret/Feather, The PPP.
(October 8, 2008 - 4:10 pm)
(October 8, 2008 - 4:10 pm)
Best. Books. Ever. If you're a Muser, you have to read this. It's not optional. How will MB bring in a new world order if all its denizens are uneducated? Read it.
(October 8, 2008 - 6:29 pm)
Required reading for sure! If you have not read it, do so, or I shall personally hunt you down, hand you my five-books-in-one volume, and hold you at piepoint until you DO read it. :)
Inspired Lunacy, people!
Not to mention all his other work. :)
(October 9, 2008 - 1:03 am)
Good luck with that, TNO! Just do me one favor--make sure the pie is chocolate cream, and don't hunt me down until either Christmas or summer break--college has me much too busy to read anything non-school related. I'm still in the middle of the book I started on the plane trip down here two months ago!
(October 10, 2008 - 9:38 am)
Agreed!
(October 11, 2008 - 3:36 pm)
Just a question: You wouldn't happen to be a Muser AND a Cricketer, like me? Becaause I've seen your name on the Cricket Chatterbox, too. TELL ME OR I"LL MAKE YOU EAT CAKE. NOT PIE. CAKE.
(May 4, 2009 - 9:42 pm)
oh so thats what the chatterbox is. ive heard it mentioned but didnt know what it was. thanks for informing me
(June 1, 2009 - 9:10 am)
Yay. I was beginning to think that there were no other Musers who are Cricketers out there.
(June 6, 2010 - 8:56 am)
I'm not the person you're planning to hear from, but I read Cricket, too. Muse is better. Also, my little sister gets Ask and my parents get The New Yorker (bo-ring), but that's irrelavent.
(December 30, 2010 - 1:35 pm)
Really Funny Book. And speaking of really funny books about alien invasions, you might also like The True Meaning Of Smekday by Adam Rex. I wrote a review about it on page 7.
(July 28, 2009 - 6:45 pm)
I READ THAT BOOK THREE TIMES COVER TO COVER I WOULD GIVE IT 7 PIES!!
(November 8, 2011 - 4:10 pm)
Please do! I don't know where else to find those books!
(December 30, 2010 - 1:30 pm)
It may be most of Museblog's favorite book, but I'm afraid I haven't even read it, TMFA! I did see the movie--but I'm sure it completely mutilated the books!
(October 10, 2008 - 9:41 am)
The movie will make so much more sense if you read the book. Not only that, but you'll get all the in-jokes, so it's a lot more hilarious if you read the books. And yes, they kind of mutilated it, but it was mutilated properly; that is, the mutilated it in the proper spirit, so essentially it is the same, they just changed some things. Besides, every new version of HHG2G is different; that's part of what makes it so awesome. Also, the changes made in the movie were made by Douglas Adams himself, so it's a lot easier to embrace them than if some random screenwriter had come up with them. All in all, I think the movie's vastly underrated, but that's probably because a lot of people who've seen it never read the books.
(December 14, 2008 - 1:15 am)
I really liked the first 3, and #5. It was just SLATFOTF i disliked. This is great series, and everyone should read it. May 25ht is Hitchhiker Day, when everyone carries a towel!
(April 12, 2009 - 4:49 pm)
what does SLATFOTF stand for?????????????????????????????? and what are the books about anyway
(June 1, 2009 - 9:13 am)
Yeah, what was up with SLATFATF? The romance was so paranoidly strange. The one thing I did like was Wonko the Sane. I have taken some of his advice in my genius Weird Everyone Out Plan.
(February 16, 2010 - 5:44 pm)
This book is one of the greatest of all time! If you like it, (You Will!), read the Discworld novels as well!
(October 12, 2008 - 10:25 am)
I enjoyed the books... just need the last one. Now I shall see if NAPOI owns any of the DiscWorld books.
(March 27, 2009 - 9:55 pm)
I've read some of the discworld series and i've readthe Guide!They are both amazing! Go Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!☺☺☺☺☺☺☻☺☻☺☻☺☻☻☻☻☻☻☺
(April 23, 2009 - 6:03 pm)
I love this series- REALLY funny, and it drives me crazy-by this I mean , when I read this I start spouting nonsense at anyone who cares to listen (and everyone who dosen't). If they ask me why I'm being so crazy I say, "Forty-two."
(September 5, 2009 - 12:05 pm)
I will read this book as soon as I can, but I have yet to get my hands on it. I mainly looked at this page because of a burning desire to know- WHAT DOES "W00T" MEAN?!?!?!?!
(September 7, 2009 - 1:48 pm)
I am DYING to read this book. I've seen the movie (which is fabulous) countless times, but still haven't read the book. I can tell you this now, though. I LOVE MARVIN, THE MANICALLY DEPRESSED ROBOT!!! that's all and........
SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!!!!
(October 4, 2009 - 12:08 pm)
His name is Marvin, the Paranoid Android.
(October 5, 2009 - 7:35 pm)
Marvin is my favorite character, too! He is so very flamablamabous!
(February 8, 2010 - 10:29 pm)
Mango from BoOkWoRm LaNd, w00t is a cybergeek expression used when they win a game, or by hackers when they make a virus. And if you are asking why I know this, *I am a telapathic creep/alien from ZZWOZG*
Now go, eat some toe jam! GO! xD
(January 1, 2010 - 12:27 am)
It went on for to long. The fist couple books I enjoyed reading but then it got harder to understand and draged o. You should still give them a try.
(October 4, 2009 - 10:55 am)
LISTEN TO THE RADIO SERIAL! (now on CD)
(October 5, 2009 - 7:23 pm)
I know how you feel-- Mostly Harmless was so confusing, I spent three days banging my head on things trying to understand the Bird Guide. And the whole Horoscope 10th planet thing. Haven't we known that there are things orbiting the Sun beyond Pluto?
(April 30, 2010 - 3:49 pm)
PEOPLE OF EARTH, YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!
If you know anything you know that it is not the "Hickhiker's Guide" but the "Hitchhiker's Guide." Also you will know that it was originally a radio serial WHICH WAS WAY WAY BETTER THAN THE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
-An avid Douglas Adams fan
P.S. Think of a number! … wrong.
(October 5, 2009 - 7:22 pm)
If you had asked it as a question we would be right!
(October 23, 2009 - 10:22 am)
I'm reading the second book now. FORTY TWO!!!!
(November 27, 2009 - 12:38 pm)
I know, right!! by the way, the 5th book, the person who wrote this review, they said it was What the Guide Calls the Earth- just clearing this up for anyone who is confused:its not actually called that its called Mostly Harmless. Which is what the Guide calls the Earth.
I LOVED THE THEORETICAL IDEA OF FLYING IN SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!! DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A GENIUS!!!! i wish i didnt live on a mostly harmless planet :l :( .
HOT PINK BUNNIES FOREVER.
(December 13, 2009 - 12:16 pm)
I read all the books in two days!! I am awesome!!! And I finally know why Muse is called the magazine of Life, the Universe, and Everything: that's the name of one of the books!!!!! I am so happy.... I will try flying sometime, even though it's impossible. (Hey, I have to believe that for it to work, right??? Otherwise it'll never happen by accident!) And yes, our planet is mostly harmless. We're too busy fighting ourselves to notice anything anywhere else, much less plans for our demolition..... ah, well, I'm gonna build a spaceship and fly back to Astrexia soon, so I don't really care. I have to remember to pack my towel...:)
Life, the Universe, and Pie Throwing, actually. --Ed.
(January 1, 2010 - 12:03 pm)
But pie throwing is everything, so I was right!!!
(January 2, 2010 - 5:34 pm)
But radioactive bacon is something, too- isn't it?
(January 11, 2010 - 5:40 pm)
Totally LOVE this book! Nothing else to say, it's great.
(January 13, 2010 - 3:28 pm)
It's Awesome! But I was a tiny bit mad when my dad did not get the #2 one.
(January 13, 2010 - 8:13 pm)
My friend LOVES this book! She is always begging me to read it. I haven't gotten to it yet.
(February 2, 2010 - 10:23 pm)
OK. Since no one has bothered to give a proper explanation of this book, I will.
Basically, a guy called Arthur Dent is really mad (some people want to demolish his house). Suddenly, Earth blows up and Arthur is the last human in existence (besides Trillian). Arthur and his friend Ford hitch a ride with the President of the Galaxy on a stolen ship. Then they meet Trillian and Zaphod Beeblebrox (he's the President of the Galaxy) and MARVIN THE PARANOID ANDROID!!!! They land on Magrathea (Arthur saves them by calling into existence a whale and a pot of petunias). There some evil mice try to buy Arthur's brain and you'll have to find out what happens next.
Noobs to HG2G, I hope this clears up any questions you have about WHAT THIS BOOK IS ACTUALLY ABOUT. Any more questions, you'll have to read the book to find out!!!
(February 16, 2010 - 5:40 pm)
I played the very, very old video game on a very, very old mac. The entire game was just entering words for the character to do, although I never got off earth in time...
(July 6, 2010 - 9:37 am)
THIS BOOK IS AWESOME! All I got to say.
(September 4, 2010 - 12:06 am)
1) Did you mean, "World Domination Plan?"
2) I used to have a World Domination Plan, but it accidentally turned into a graphic novel.
(November 18, 2010 - 8:07 pm)
Apparently everybody likes this story except for me.
I thought it was really weird and well, I didn't like it. The movie wasn't that interesting either. I never actually finished the book that's how much I hated it!
(January 7, 2011 - 6:48 pm)