The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Word for Word), Unabridged Edition Review
This series of radio tales is absolutely crazy science-fiction in the cosmic technological line. And the first theme and style is English humour. Every detail is turned technical and purely absurd gibberish language that means nothing but sounds logical. But we are constantly teased and titillated with impossible or improbable events or peripetias that we are to share and enjoy, such as the pulling down of the Berlin Wall that was thin anyway, and what's more in the thickest thickness of the Cold War. The enjoyable pleasure of a cup of tea is turned ridiculous in the name of good nutrition and personal computerized pleasure requirements. And of course it has to fit in a cosmic vision of fate and human destiny as understood and interpreted by a computer, thought out by a gorilla and built and assembled by a wolf and/or hyena. All that condensates in the concept of Vogun, the conception of such a being called a Vogun whose only objective is to rationalize the life of everyone and the whole cosmos, and that means essentially killing "them" all, those beings of all types or forms, particularly human, to clean up the mess this cosmos has been since it was authorized to follow its own dynamism, its own enjoyment that implies the thriving of all kinds of life-loving desires that are identified to morbid tendencies that enjoy the rotting cycle of life and death. Voguns want to get the cosmos out of this cycle. The best way is to get rid of life. Then death would not exist anymore nor the cycle that leads to death. In other words Voguns are the slaves of the desire to be eternal in death, if possible the death of everyone and everything except them. Umbilical, selfish, psychotic, fatal and lethal paranoid schizophrenia. Incomprehensible, dixit Douglas Adams. But very clearly intellectually easy to swallow onanistic capsules of self exhilaration. If you find this abstract construction just ludicrous, the author will answer that such an attitude is the result of three both intellectual and existential mistakes in living and thinking styles, i.e. ignorance, stupidity and nothing else, the third one being of course the most important symptom of real world fetichism in a world of virtuality or even virtual reality. We are now in a time when the unspeakable is summed up in one word, belgium, the ultimate insult to rational cosmic destiny. And that destiny is of course run and read in twelve episodes, like the 12 apostles, the 12 stations of the Way of the Cross, the 12 months of the year, the 12 hours of each half-day or even the 12 eggs or oysters in a dozen even when you get 13 in each dozen as a reward for your courage to eat live organisms like oysters, or live chicken foetuses like eggs. Let them live please. To keep pr�cis about it, it all boils down to the number 578 which is nothing but twice seventeen square. Simple isn't it? And if you don't get it it's because the feet of your brain are the wrong size for your intellectual shoes and I would advise you to change feet and start running like the foot warriors you should have never forgotten you were, you are, you will be forever and ever, which by the way makes you equal to God himself who was who is who will come. We are all pedestrians who at times get on the phony omnibus of the imagination of a computerized mind trying to trek after stars that have never existed except in the obscure lightless both right and left brains of the author of this fantasy. And it all ends with a couple of weddings, a ranting and raving vexed auto-pilot, and a reality on the blink in a first class compartment on a stranded plane, and it all was but a 3D virtual world devised in the office of some bureaucrat or some bureaucrats on a dy when it rained too much to be able to push pencils. Try to get aboard on the thirteenth episode, if it exists anywhere.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Word for Word), Unabridged Edition Overview
One Thursday lunchtime Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has just had his house demolished that morning, this is more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very large and startling place indeed.
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I searched high and low for this exact audio cassette version of HHGTTG - Kimberly Fedchak - Philadelphia, PA, USA
I first took these tapes out of my local library in the 1980's. Recently I remembered how funny they were, and I searched online to see if I could find them. I accidentally purchased other recorded versions, including one read by the author, and what I realized was that the quality of the narration on all the other versions could not match the delivery given by the narrator and actors on this set. These guys are really, really top-notch. Not enough credit is given to them as performers. They include: Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Peter Jones as The Book, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Susan Sheridan as Trillian. This version was produced by Geoffrey Perkins. The set includes six tapes, or 12 hours of material. Enjoy!
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I must say that this is one of the greatest books I've read. At first I thought " thousand pages,that's too much, I don't have the energy to do this". So I sat down and started to read, This is quite good, I thought. Ten hours later I just had to admit it, the book had had me mesmerized, I just couldn't put it down ! For those who haven't read this book, I highly recommend you do ! I say: Giddyup !
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My friend persuaded me to read it, though I didn't need much persuading after reading the introduction!! Very, very funny, with humour reminiscent of the Goons and Monty Python.
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