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Listening to the audio CD's has an extra dimension to the book. You do get time to catch your breath. And my CD player is in the car. Somehow I survived. I would say that one great advantage to CD's is the ability to hear how the names are pronounced and you get inflections that intended or not help understand where they are going before they get there. An other advantage is that CD's like acid free paper should outlast the reader.
How many times have you asked a simple question and go the answer as "42." Yep, you are a victim to this book. Many of the clichés and truisms that rival Shakespeare are creeping into our vocabulary. And attitudes - "It has been on file."
If you are the one person that somehow got through life with out reading this series or at least seeing this on TV, then you are in for a treat. Somehow this story is earmarked as sci-fi and I guess it can be in a sense and it has all the elements necessary; it delivers a powerful message to the local Zoning Board.
I will not go though the story, as that is why you are reading the book. You need to sit down for the next sentence.
This book has changed my life.
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Monty Python in space, brilliant!
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Douglas Adams's Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is truly entertaining from the first line. Although at first sight Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy appears just another spoof of the traditional sci-fi genre, in fact it manages to bring it's own original ideas while still affectionately poking fun at the concept in ways which are in turn both subtle and obvious. Without a doubt most the comedic value of this story comes directly from the characters which inhabit it, not least the hapless Authur Dent who will have you laughing out loud as he struggles to come to terms with the hilarious revelations continually confront him throughout his turbulent journey. The story is given an added dimension by Adams's fitting character voices. Buy it. Buy it now
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Great listening, makes the miles fly
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I'm a fan of Hitch Hiker's, and have read all the books over and over. So whats the point of having it on Audio? Well its great to hear the author read it, adding his own speech emphasis, after all he wrote it! Also if you do a lot of driving having this cassette in makes the miles fly by. One star deducted - its not on CD !!! All in all a great Listen! - buy it now !
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