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Day 5 - A book that makes you happy
May. 5th, 2013 04:08 pm5. A book that makes you happy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
This book made me giggle so much that my face hurt from smiling. It is humorous, sarcastic and oh so sweet. Arthur Dent is angry that a highway is about to be built right through where his home is and he decides to chain himself to the bulldozer. Then his friend Ford Prefect shows up and turns his world even more upside down. It seems that an intergalactic highway is about to be built and Earth is to be demolished just like Arthur’s house and the adventure begins.
A few lines just to give you some idea of what you’re getting into:
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
Oh and in the series, you will find out The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
This book made me giggle so much that my face hurt from smiling. It is humorous, sarcastic and oh so sweet. Arthur Dent is angry that a highway is about to be built right through where his home is and he decides to chain himself to the bulldozer. Then his friend Ford Prefect shows up and turns his world even more upside down. It seems that an intergalactic highway is about to be built and Earth is to be demolished just like Arthur’s house and the adventure begins.
A few lines just to give you some idea of what you’re getting into:
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
Oh and in the series, you will find out The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything!