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| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Harmony
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 770040
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 25 Col Anv
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1400052939
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781400052936
ASIN: 1400052939
Publication Date: October 19, 2004
Release Date: October 19, 2004
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Product Description
Packed with an Astounding Amount of New and Never-Before-Collected Material.
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
No one but Douglas Adams could have pared life?s meaning down to these three questions, and they remain as inspired and head-scratchingly clever today as they did twenty-five years ago when they appeared in the first edition of The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy. Showcasing his quick wit, comic genius, and wide-ranging intelligence, Hitchhiker?s has become nothing less than a cult classic and cultural phenomenon.
To celebrate its quarter century and the extraordinary legacy of Adams, this gorgeously designed, mostly harmless deluxe edition gathers never-before-collected photographs, original artwork, memorabilia (from the strange to the sublime), and wisdom gleaned from a first read or first encounter as Douglas?s friends remember how the galaxy was forever changed a mere twenty-five years ago (not to mention the original text of the novel) into a one-of-a-kind Guide as stunning as two suns setting over Magrathea.
Whether you are well versed in the antics of Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered Earthman plucked from his planet seconds before it?s demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, and Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy posing as an out-of-work actor, or are hitching a ride for the first time, this is the book that has everything you?ll nee to know about anything.So please do not be alarmed. Definitely don?t panic. Just be sure to grab a towel.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Douglas is Douglas...you couldn't ask for more December 28, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The man was a genius along the lines of Terry Pratchett. Must be something about the water over there...
If you're a fan of Douglas, it's a must read. Period. All his stuff is a must read in my opinion...if you like humor and can handle British humour.
Great photos, write-ups, tid-bits, history.
I miss the guy.
 Absurd. Clever. Satirical. Quirky. And, sadly, just not as funny 17 years later. January 1, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
There are books that you should read, re-read, and re-re-read. This, unfortunately, turned out not to be one of those books, at least for me.
When I first read this as a teenager, the whimsical English humor, sudden digressions, metafictional interruptions, and probing satirical questions kept me in stitches. This novel (such as it is), held together by a singular smart-assery, profoundly appealed to my own new found sense of adolescent rebellion. Coincidences, meaningful and otherwise, non sequiturs, and bureaucratic balderdash leavened the side-splitting dialogue and made it impossible to put down.
Alas, upon re-reading the novel at the conclusion of 2006, I was struck by how much of the writing didn't strike me anymore. To say that the plot of the book is thin would be a compliment, and to call the characters, well, characters, would be a stretch. Most of the jokes just weren't as funny this time around, and the few that did crack me up were tinged with the bittersweet recognition that they would never be groundbreaking again.
Because I read the 25th anniversary edition, perhaps it is fitting that it conjured up such mixed emotions. The author, Douglas Adams, had died three years before this edition was published, and so many of the extras in this volume involve tributes from luminaries like Terry Jones and Neil Gaiman. The introductory chapters are also chocked full of reproductions of flyers, book covers, and other such emphemera that will only be important to die-hard fans of the book, radio show, and/or movie.
Remember, though, that this review is just my opinion. Whatever you do, Don't Panic.
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