Literary Analysis of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

When You think of a good book, what comes into your to mind? In my eyes a good book can be definates as a excellent piece of literature that draws your attention deeper and deeper into the story as you continue to read it. As a read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy it made me feel as if I was actually there while it was taking place right before my eyes. I personally can define The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as a excellent book as becauses I had to literally physical restraint myself from picking it up at 2:30 in the morning so that I can read just one more chapter in the novel rather than getting some well need sleep. Based on my definition, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is most assuredly a excellent novel. Publishers can spend a fortune promoting their hottest literary discoveries.

Bookshops can deploy all their marketing ingenuity to produce imaginative and colorful displays to attract customers to spend their hard earned money on that work. But when the book-buying public comes to choose a new read, it is word of mouth that counts. The last book that I personally read fopr recreational perpouses was on the basis of what a family member and a friend had told me.I believe that the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy should be recommended for the book of the month because of the qualities it has as a excellent piece of literature. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is about space fleet of evil aliens, called Vogons, who arrive on earth in yellow spaceships and proceed to completely and totally demolish the planet in order to build an intergalactic freeway. At least, that’s what the first three chapters are about.

The rest of the book tells the story of the lone survivor, Arthur Dent, his friend, Ford Prefect of Betelgeuse, and the misadventures that they have as they try to survive trials such as whales falling from the sky, melancholy robots. This novel is full of action pacted scence that will not only attract young aged readers to more adult aged read because of the scence of humor it has within the text. The author Douglas Adams is brilliant and has mastered the comedic art because he understands it. Don’t worry if you’re confused in some parts of the novel, or you can’t remember where the characters were five minutes before. Adams has set up a small cast of characters, including Arthur Dent, the last living Earth-man, and others of alien origin, such as Marvin the depressed robot, Ford Prefect and Zaphod Beeblebrox, thief, jerk, and former President of the Universe. These characters are thrown into various, odd situations over which they have no control.

There is a plot to each book, but it is secondary. The real joy of the novel is to sit back and absorb it all. Some of the best parts are the asides from the author, sometimes hidden in the text within The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams gives all sorts of odd facts about the Universe and its history in the novels, facts which really have no reason to be there, except to provide a lot of laughter. In terms of Originality, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is as original as can be. The Imagery in the book has a far more sarcastic and silly feel than that of the Movie mostly because the vivid sound effects and visceral interactions are replaced. It does not allow you to have the full feel of you actully being there as the story unfold right before you.