# Hitchhiker's guide wow! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427 "2004-11-07T00:31:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/1 "2004-11-07T00:31:30Z")
I am starting my journey into the universe! I am loving these books! These books do not leave my side! I know understand a few more Doper quotes! I have been enlightened! ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/2 "2004-11-07T01:03:14Z")
**DON’T PANIC** ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/3 "2004-11-07T01:05:46Z")
Yeah, they’re a lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/4 "2004-11-07T01:14:21Z")
Afterward you may want to change the spelling of your username. ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/5 "2004-11-07T01:18:03Z")
Why? 😕 If it will ruin something please don’t say, but now I am so curious! I am just now at the resturant at the end of the universe, and I will have a hard time eating steak again. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/6 "2004-11-07T01:27:53Z")
You will understand why after reading _Life, the Universe, and Everything_. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/7 "2004-11-07T01:43:23Z")
_Life. Don’t talk to me about life!_ ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/8 "2004-11-07T01:54:20Z")
You guys are great! GuanoLad, that is a book and a half away! I’ll be up all night! QtM, that is something Marvin says right? One of my favorite parts of the book I’m on now is when he is left alone to stop the tank. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/9 "2004-11-07T02:17:14Z")
As much as I read, I’ve never cracked a _Hitchhiker_ book. I better get, um, cracking. I feel so left out around here! ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/10 "2004-11-07T02:26:22Z")
> [@Kricket](#): > > QtM, that is something Marvin says right? Yes it is. I’m always glad to hear when people say they’ve just picked up **Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** , It’s my favorite book, that and **The Resteraunt at the end of the Universe**. Enjoy finishing that one, it’s an imagination stretching joy that I’ve found myself getting sucked into on more than one occasion. I can’t even say how many times I reread the first three Hitchiker books. One of the greatest things about reading is discovering the signifigance behind certain words, numbers, and odd phrases. By now I’m sure you’ve seen your fair share of _42_ scribbled on bathroom walls (or is that just my workplace?), Bablefish stuff online, and people quipping about how someone or something “vanished in a puff of logic”. The only book I found more enlightening in this aspect was **1984**. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/11 "2004-11-07T02:47:34Z")
Plus the joy of paradoxical sentences, “They hung in the sky the same way rocks don’t.” I love the books too. ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/12 "2004-11-07T02:51:31Z")
We could hardly tell :o . ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/13 "2004-11-07T03:06:27Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > Plus the joy of paradoxical sentences, “They hung in the sky the same way rocks don’t.” > > I love the books too. the correct quote is “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/14 "2004-11-07T05:42:52Z")
If only the last couple of books were as good as the first couple… ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/15 "2004-11-07T06:47:28Z")
Best way to enjoy Adams’ style of British humor is to read the first three **Hitchhikers’** books, then switch over to Terry Pratchett. 😃 All the wit of Adams, but with three times the depth. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/16 "2004-11-07T07:06:34Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Best way to enjoy Adams’ style of British humor is to read the first three **Hitchhikers’** books, then switch over to Terry Pratchett. 😃 You’ve got to read the Dirk Gently books to, not to mention _Last Chance to See_ (the funniest non-fiction book I’ve ever read). These are all better than the last two Hitchhiker books, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/17 "2004-11-07T08:01:33Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > As much as I read, I’ve never cracked a _Hitchhiker_ book. I better get, um, cracking. I feel so left out around here! On the cover of the American paperback edition of _THHGttG_ that I bought back in the early 1980s, in large friendly letters, are the words: “DON’T PANIC! You still have time to read this book before everyone else does” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/18 "2004-11-07T13:45:49Z")
The first time I read _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ was on the way home from doing the ‘post-high-school-Europe-thing’… after having used _Let’s Go: Europe_ for the preceeding five weeks. 😃😛 I think ‘living out of’ _Let’s Go_ gave me a different point of view that enhanced the comedy. ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/19 "2004-11-07T16:38:41Z")
> [@Kricket](#): > > Why? 😕 > If it will ruin something please don’t say, but now I am so curious! > I am just now at the resturant at the end of the universe, and I will have a hard time eating steak again. After finishing _Restaurant…_, I suggest you stop. Just stop. Don’t bother reading the rest of the series. They’re not as good. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchhikers-guide-wow/273427/20 "2004-11-07T17:17:57Z")
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