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work that showed humanity its insignificance and that madness is a general, entertaining trait in the universe,

One of the greatest milestones of the rare SciFi comedy hybrids, although its losing quality after the firstparts, Fantasy seems to be more prone to comedy than SciFi, I dont know why thats the fact, I would tend to call it kind of Terry Pratchett in space, because of the unique wit, just without the stamina for so many parts, Adams dying in a fitness center of a heart attack comes in here too, although he already stopped continuing the series years before,

More sheer fun than the rest of the serious
Its just hilarious and very clever, using different comedy tropes in space, not for science! One of these ideas one has once in a lifetime, in Adam's case mixed with talent.
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Running gags, some scifi elements, and comedy characters,
Thereby, the wacky protagonists construct the laughs with slapstick, some deeper stuff, and general strangeness, The underlying criticism level isnt very high in the first part, which can mostly be seen as pure entertainment,

So successful because its so easy to read
There is better, more ironic, and more complex scifi out there, but nothing as pleasant as Adam's work.
No need to think too hard or get depressed about human nature, no info dump and worldbuilding overkills, just characters, puns, and gags mixed with some dept and

The second and third part of the series include some of the best indirect social criticism too.

But it sadly doesnt improve after that, Ive read until the fifth one and Adams just cant live up to the expectations anymore, starts recycling his schemes, and just isnt as compelling as in the original trilogy.
Maybe he had already enough money, wasnt really motivated, or lost his muse, but its quite a shame because there would have been potential as endless as space for more, really good parts.


Useless fandom trivia
The author, as the story goes, had the idea while watching the sky completely wasted, some might say poisoned, by Gösser beer in my home country Austria.
I dont believe this, because Stiegl beer is just much better than this bitter concoction, Whip me with a towel if you have a problem with that, I can easily handle a little intergalactic spanking,

Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique:
sitelink org/pmwiki/pmwiki. ph I hated this book, It was required in one of my English Lit, classes in college. The time spent reading this book is time that I will never get back, I think this book may have shortened my life it was such a waste of time, Summary
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Along with his friend, Arthur Dent escapes from Earth before it was demolished and goes for a hilarious yet intriguing trip through the galaxy.


Some fascinating facts related to this this book
I thought that this was a book mainly for the younger audience, and I wouldn't enjoy it.
Then I accidentally came across an interview of Elon Musk where he discussed his HitchhikersGuideinspired Design Philosophy and told that it was this book that inspired him to make SpaceX.
That, at last, convinced me to read this book, And it was an absolute joy to read,
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Why are so many people obsessed with this book How did it influence Elon

Musks design philosophy
For knowing more about it.
I am sharing the excerpts from Elon Musk's interview here,

Science Fiction to Reality
Here Elon beautifully lays out the philosophical points from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which have shaped the way he thinks through tough engineering challenges.


Elon Musks HitchhikersGuideinspired Design Philosophy "Question everything, including the question",
As Hitchhikers Guide teaches us, if you are given access to the Universes most powerful supercomputera system that can answer any question you throw at itdont waste its time with a question you havent properly thought through.
The same goes for a beautiful human brain,
When approaching any challenge, first ask yourself, “Am I asking the right question” Alternatively, “Am I being asked the right question”
“Take ages to form your question, ”
The climax of the first book in the series focuses on relaying this lesson to its readers: If you dont understand the question in the first place, you wont understand the answer it produces.


. “Question your constraints. ”
The world of rocket science comes with a load of constraints: Time, physical, budgetary, the list goes on, But, Elon warns, “Dont design to your constraints without calling into question those constraints, ”

. “Dont optimize a thing that shouldnt exist, ”
We all find ourselves in the midst of a task that suddenly seems silly, “Why am I doing this” We are creatures of habit, and we are great at following orders, But, sometimes, we forget that orders come from creatures of habit, And, sometimes, habits must be broken in the name of efficiency and progress, SpaceXs extremely fastpaced innovation makes it clear that they are great at putting this lesson into practice,

. “The product errors reflect organizational errors, ”
To be a great leader, you have to understand the trickledown effect of your organizational errors, They will flow all the way down the chain, injecting themselves right into your products and services,
That goes for any level of organization, all the way up to whole societies, Starting on page, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy does a wonderful job poking fun at the absurdity of errorfilled bureaucratic processes that trickle all the way down from a government body, forming persistent issues in the daily lives of its citizens.


My favourite lines from this book

“Time is an illusion, Lunchtime doubly so. ”

"For a moment, nothing happened, Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen, ”

“Dont panic, ”