A hapless bloke called Arthur goes on a hair raising misadventure through space. I'm not giving away any more. It's a sci-fi comedy based on a BBC radio series. Read it before seeing the movie.

Reading. More specifically, it's good for both a laugh and some brain bending thought. It concerns amongst other things, the meaning of life and the true nature of Earth and the human race.

Marvin the paranoid android; a machine with a defective personality chip, and one of the all time great deadpan humour characters.

It doesn't end so much as lead into the next book. Quite possibly, this is due to it being adapted from a radip serial.

Read the next book, for the above mentioned reason. I also wished I could figure out what '42' really signified.

Exhillerated. It took my brain to new and wonderful places.

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It's rare to find a comedy with such depth.

The first of a series of five novels, although the first two form an obvious pair. Um. "What number am I thinking of, maybe?"

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