Well, I read the first 100 pages of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
This books is very confusing. I don't really get the book.
For example, in the first chapter, Arthur Dent (one of the two main characters of the book) woke up and found out that his house was about to be demolished by bulldozers to make way for a bypass. Then all of a sudden Ford Perfect, the other main character of the book, comes and tells Arthur that the world which was Earth was going to end in twenty minutes. Ford takes Arthur to a bar and gets Arthur drunk,
And then all of a sudden in the second chapter, it started talking about the President of the Galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and how he was making some speech in front of cameras... which didn't really make sense to me but never mind that. The chapter ended with Zaphod throwing a bomb in front of the cameras. Does that makes sense to you?
Then the next chapter automatically changed to Arthur's and Ford's perspective and how Earth was about to be destroyed.
The werid thing about this book is that it defines words that I already know. Like for example, Ford needed a towel to get aboard a spaceship. Not only did the author define the word towel, but there was an unneeded 2 pages defining the word towel. I would think I know what a towel is but then it was talking about how you needed a towel to flag a spaceship and get on it. That didn't make sense to me.
Also, I forgot to mention this, there are footnotes in the book. The footnotes take up half the page in the book. I don't really like that. It gets confusing because I would read a passage then look down to this HUGE chunk of footnotes and after I'm finished reading with that, I would then have to look all the way up at the top to reread the sentence then continue on with the book.
All in all, I enjoyed the first 100 pages of the book.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
first 100 pages
Posted by zoeRose at 3:41 PM
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4 comments:
I watched the movie, you need to have some sort of English humor to understand the humor of it!I read it a few years ago and it was ok. don't worry,even I found it confusing when I read it the first time !
this book sounds confusing, but i read it before and an easy way to read this book is to understand that its a bunch of nonsense, nothing is supposed to be taken seriously in this book. Thats how i finished the book, hope it helps you.
lol
I read it recently and it does have footnotes, but it's good.
You may have to read it again, but don't take the text so seriously. Adams did not meant for it to be taken seriously :D
-Tomato-chan
I watched this movie too like some of the other people who replied.
The movie was as confusing as you make the book to be.
I remember the part where the main character gets drunk at the bar (I also think that there was the guy where he thinks the towel is the best weapon?)
Well good luck with the book, i dont think i will be reading this book anytime soon. It seems very confusing.
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