How is it that I never read this before?
I bought the whole series for my daughter for Christmas, and she never really got into it. Well, now that I have a 45-minute bus ride to work, each way, and I've blow through The Final Dark, Lord of the Rings, and the Last of the Mohicans, I was looking for something new to read. Flash forward and I stole my daughter's Christmas present from her (really borrowed, OK? I'm not a monster, after all).
I had a good deal of air travel recently, and about a 5 hour layover at MSP, so I pulled it out and started reading. The Guide to the Guide was absolutely hilarious, and the rest of the book to be, not only simarly hilarious, bit also thoroughly entertaining. I also know why my daughter never really quite got into it; it seems to be particularly up my proverbial alley, being that my college studies were heavy in philosophy and mathematics (when I wasn't holding a human brain or tracing the pathways of the twelve cranial nerves out of the skull of a cadaver,that is).
Every page I read it like another journey into the recesses of my subconscious. I always find something new that resonates particularly strongly with myself.
I know, I know. I'm really late arriving to this party.
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Probably one of the greatest Sci-fi/comedy books ever written. (Okay, so by Mr. Adams's admission, it's a "trilogy in five parts".)