I had a copy of The Hitchhikers Guide on the bookshelf in my classroom and several students read it and wanted to read the other books in the series. I wasn't able to find any at the used books shops (no surprise there) so I finally broke down and bought three copies of the whole series. Hopefully, the kids will enjoy the books and pass them around. If a few of my students get interested in reading because of these books, my money was well spent.

Released on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 at The bookshelf in my classroom in Cincinnati, Ohio USA.

One of my favorite scenes in this book (even though there were many) was the scene at the very beginning of the book. Arthur Dent, who is just any normal human being living in England, wakes up one morning to see that there is a bulldozer outside waiting to demolish his house. However, Arthur keeps ignoring this fact and keeps on doing his normal routine of brushing his teeth or combing his hair in order to get ready for the day. Eventually he goes outside to see this bulldozer with a not too intelligent man sitting in it (who is actually a decendent of Hannibal). Arthur Dent keeps trying to nogotiate with the man in order to convince him not to demolish his house however the man keeps telling him that he was ordered to demolish the house because it is in the way of a highway that government is building. Arthur stubbornly lays down in the mud in front of his front door and won't move until the man leaves. Eventually after a long time of waiting Arthur's friend Ford Prefect (who is actually a being from another planet) comes by and asks Arthur to go to the bar with him and have a drink. Arthur tells Ford the whole deal with the bulldozer and the house so Ford comes up with and idea. Ford convinces the man that even though Arthur has moved from that spot he is actually still there so the man cannot destroy the house. Somehow that plan worked and Ford and Arthur head off to the bar for a drink a few minutes before the planet Earth will be destroyed.

This is about the third book of the five book Hitchhikers trilogy called Life, the Universe and Everything. This was a great book. First of all it was hilarious, secondly it had a good plot and third it gave the real reason where humans came from.
The plot of the book deals with the planet Krikkit. During all of the time of existence of the planet Krikkit the inhabitants have never known that the Universe even existed. One day when a spaceship crash lands into Krikkit they find out that the universe does exist and they instantly want to destroy it. In order to stop the beings of Krikkit from destroying the Universe leaders of many different planets come together and form a slow time shield around the planet of Krikkit. The only thing that can open this shield is a key made of certain things. The plan is the shield will unlock itself after the end of the universe so by the time Krikkit is free there won't be any Universe to destroy.
However a ship of a whole bunch of small white robots escape the planet and vow to save their masters from being locked up. These robots travel all over the Universe seeking and destroying until they have all parts to the key. However, Slartibartfast and the Hitchhiker gang plan to stop these robots.

I liked the part of the book where they explained how humans didn't evolve from apes but they were actually beings from another planet sent to earth. On another planet far away from Earth there were basically three different types of classes of beings. High class, such as big business owners, the middle class, such as telephone cleaners, and the low class, such as bums. One day the upper class tell the middle class that their planet is going to be estroyed and they need to evacuate the planet. The upper class told the middle class that should travel about a trillion light years away from the planet and land on the closest planet. The upper class said the would be shortly behind them. Well, the middle class sets off and they travel for a couple million light years until they eventually find out that the other classes tricked them and aren't coming up behind them. Well, since they don't really know how to fly a spaceship they end up crash landing on Earth and that has been their home since. Those people are our decendents. However back on the home planet the upper and lower classes quickly become extinct from and disease spread from an unsanitary, dirty telephone

I read the second book in the series titled, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I thouroughly enjoyed this book as much as the first one. I was just like the first book with its waky plot and great humor. One of the scenes i recall as being pretty good was when the ghost of Arthur's grandfather appeared in their ship about 5 minutes before thaier ship was about to be blow to smithereens by a Vogon ship. The entire scene Arhtur fights with his grandfather, who is the only one who can help them get out of their dreadful situation. One of my favorite scenes was when Arthur and the crew arrive a the Restaurant at the end of the Universe, and the a live aow comes totheir table asking for their order. But the thing is, the cow IS their dinner. The cow stands there offering its own body parts for dinner. I found this scene to be hilarious. The end was also pretty good because, though I don't want to spoil it. Lets just say it has something to do with Arthur playing scrabble with some cavemen. This was also hilarious. If you iked the first book, I guarantee you'll like this one.

This book was hilarious with the cast of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod, Trilian and MArvin. I especially like the scene when they are onthee way to Megarethrea and the tw defense missiles shot at thenm turn into a petunia and a sperm whale. And the Sperm whale decides to start naming things

This was some of the funniest material that I've ever read. The first three books in the series were by far the best and I have to say that he should have stopped there like he was planning to. Instead he wrote two more in the series, and while they weren't the worst books I've ever read they were definetly more of a chore to get through than the first three, all of which I finished with way too soon. Overall I loved the series, but it should have ended as a 'trilogy' as intended, the excess books were the only thing keeping this great collection from getting a 10.