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The Hithchikers Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy
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This Trioligy currently has 5 books in it!  It is for random people. In The Hithchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Aurthor Dent learns that some company wants to buldoze his house and build a Bypass.  He also learns that one of his friends is not from earth.  The earth is about to blow up.  So his friend takes him away.  They get on to a spaceship that was stolen by a zaphod.  A zaphod is a creature with 2 heads.  Then they try to figure out what the question to the ultimate answer (which happens to be forty-two) is.

submitted by Jonathan F., age 10, Ithaca, NY
(October 7, 2008 - 5:47 pm)

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WEEEEEEEEE DOUGLAS ADAMS! *<3 forever*

*hem*

Anyway. Your summary was just a *tiny* bit inaccurate. (Note: spoilers ahead)

Arthur Dent's house is going to be bulldozed to make a bypass. So is the earth, but we don't know that yet. Fred Prefect, Arthur's friend, is an alien who's been stranded on earth for quite some time. He and Arthur hitchhike into safety (on board the ships that destroy the earth) and are later ejected from the ship, into space, where they are picked up by Trillian, Zaphod Beedlebrox (sp?), and Marvine the depressed robot, who are piloting the Improbability Drive ship, which Zaphod stole after becoming President of the Galaxy.

Later they meet some mice who, it turns out, built the earth because a giant supercomputer, Deep Thought, told them to so that they could find the Question that goes to the Answer (42). Deep Thought was built to answer the Question (the Question is never directly stated). The answer DT gave was 42.

Anyway, there's some more adventures, including lunch at Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the universe, Arthur learns to fly, meets a crazed alien who Arthur had apparently killed on numerous occasions, Marvine sees God's final message, then proceeds to die, the earth gets blown up several times, Arthur meets his daughter while living on some planet and making sandwiches, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is taken over by a hostile race of aliens, and Ford, Trillian, Arthur, Arthur's daughter, and just about everyone else (including the crazed alien who Arthur had previously killed) are apparently killed when the earth is destroyed AGAIN.

Thus ends the series, and the spoilers. *_* No, I'm not obsessed at all. 

ANYHOO, Douglas Adams is one of my heros.

submitted by TNÖ, age 15, Deep Space
(October 9, 2008 - 12:39 am)

HA! Hitchhikers is the most wacko random series ever! I would like it better without the swearing, though... Commander Kip is a very clean-tongued person. I love the daughter, Random! She totally is!

submitted by Commander Kip, age 15 aurons, Zraeland, Irlic
(November 2, 2008 - 10:39 pm)

There was swearing? When?

submitted by TNÖ, age 15, Deep Space
(November 4, 2008 - 10:28 pm)

Throughout the series, I believe, but more in the last two books. I love your name! How do you pronounce it?

 

My all-time favorite part (excuse my spelling):

 

Prak: It is written in thirty-foot-high letters of fire in the Quentulus Quagzar Mountains, in the land of Sevorpeubstry, on the planet Preliumtarn, third out from the sun Zarss, Galactic Sector QQ7 Active J Gamma. It is guarded by the Lajestic Vantrashell of Lob.

 

Arthur: *blinks owlishly* Sorry, what was that again?

 

Prak (after repeating it several times): *dies testily*

submitted by Commander Kip, age 15 aurons, Zraeland, Irlic
(November 6, 2008 - 10:32 am)

My name? It's an acronym (the umlauts are just for... well... I like umlauts...) so you pronounce each letter: T-N-O. Like that. :)

My personal favorite:

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.

--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 

That one makes me laugh every time. 

submitted by TNÖ, age 15, Deep Space
(November 10, 2008 - 6:20 pm)