The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This was an absolute pleasure to read. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a story about a human that experience of a life time. the story starts with his house being demolished to make way for a new bypass highway, in a odd coincidence the same thing is planned for the earth to make way for a intergalactic space bypass. Luck  for him his friend of many years named ford prefect turns out to be a alien from some were in the proximity of beatlejuice. he tells his friend aurthor dent our story protagonist that the world is about to end and he has decided to take him with him. thus begins the story of the Hitchhikers Guide. The way the book is written is indeed a British story the pacing and the comedy at times can be a bit dry but is still very funny. To me the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy read kind of like a discovery channel documentary about the universe and everything in it but told thru the perspective of a simple man that has to come to grips of the culture shock of his new surroundings