The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Hitchhiker's Guide Series, Book 1

This is one of the best books ever. My dad reccomended this to me, and it is awesome. My friends and I constantly quote parts of this series. It is really really funny and intellectual. If you don't find this book funny, you must be a manically depressed robot. The only reason I rated this as iffy is that it is really intellectual and some kids might not understand all of the humor. You can instantly make tons of friends by saying 42 or "Life, don't talk to me about life" or "Brain the size of a planet..." or "What are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot? What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot." I honestly think that this should be required reading for every country whose language you can buy Hitchhiker's Guide in. By the way, the other books in the series are "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" "Life, the Universe, and Everything" and "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" " BTW what makes this all the funnier is that I'm British.

This book rocks. It is so utterly random and unpredictable, it breaks every rule of writing, it doesn't make any sense at all, and is generally just like me. It's the type of book I dream of writing, the type of book that is so funny you find you're folding every page corner, the type of book EVERYONE needs to read, the type of book that makes you pity someone who doesn't like it and wonder what's wrong with them. The fourth book in the series makes it kind of 'huh' for younger readers, but overall, as my friend once described a book, it's a-freakin-mazing.

Great book but some mature bits. There is some infrequent swearing that is not in most kid's books and the sexuality is as well. Hilarious, though.

Warning! This story is filled with British Humor, but there are mice, dolphins, and other sorts of great things in this story. Besides that, narrowly escaping the death and destruction of the earth to make room for an intergalactic highway, englishman Arthur Dent and his alien friend Ford Prefect, from a small moon near Betelgeuse, go on a wild adventure across time and space. They are read Vogon poetry which is considered a terrible torture, and they are almost sucked out of an air lock into the universe. They then sneak on board of a vast ship in outer space. Then after many near death experiences they end up narrowly escaping near the end of each chapter. Throughout the novel they join forces with, Zaphod Beeblebrox, the ex-president of the galaxy, Trillian the only other surviving earthling, and a depressed robot named Marvin to search for the answer to the question of the meaning of life. This answer may have been hidden on the recently demolished earth. I would reccomend this book for young teens and people who can enjoy British humor. This novel may also fit well with Science-Fiction lovers. This novel is a fairly easy read, but if you have strict feelings for religion then this novel may offend you in some ways. There was also a movie that was re-made in 2005 which was a fairly good representation of most of the novel.