so long and thanks for all the fish

the only thing more improbable than earth being a 10 million year long organic supercomputer. Of which was going to be destroyed by the vogons 5 minutes before the completion of the program. Where, there's only one survivor. Named authur dent, through a series of miraculous and just as improbable events. Manages to find himself BACK on earth. Only 2 million years in the past. Just to discover the entire program being doomed from the start. As the human race and the subsequent question to the ultimate answer of life the universe and everything. To be replaced by a bunch of snobby middle men. Telephone cleaners. Well... the only thing MORE improbable than all that. Would be that, somehow, those telephone cleaners would converge upon the answer in 2 million years anyways... scientists, currently, have yet to test, this particular train thought however.

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After so many years I finally decided to give this a listen after hearing so much hype. Geez, what a load of crap. It's so nonsensical, boring and unnecessarily packed with gibberish. I think even as a kid if I had read this I would've been irritated

Happy Towel Day!

Where are you from? Earth. Earth? What galaxy? Milky way. I had to leave. Why? My planet became infected with a virus. Really? What kind of virus? Politicia Insanitasia. What? It's a virus that makes the sufferer go slowly mad obsessing over politics and political correctness. People who contract the virus rage and clench their teeth, slobber and drool like mad dogs. Dwell on the past and wail about the future. It's terrifying to see. Ah.....well, you don't have to worry about that here. We're sensible and we don't have television or the internet. God bless you sir! I'm in heaven!!!

Thank you :)

First heard the BBC recording when it was rebroadcast on a public radio station early in the 1980s. I bought the cassette and book. Then, the computer game which came with cardboard peril sensitive glasses and a don’t panic button.

6x9=54. So the computer got the math wrong??!?! At least the question should have been "what is 6x7?"

He's a remarkable author, but not such a great narrator. Lots of smacking lips, aswell. This is why author's very rarely read their own audiobooks.

DONT PANIC

Soo thrilled to have stumbled upon this literary offering!!! By the first few sentences I have been tickled and absolutely enthralled!

Still looking for green spaces ships, my electronic thumb is slowly dying

What a terrible idea, creating the universe!

...by the author?! Woo-hoo!🎉

💐-"oh no not again"

35 years after i read this as a kid i discovered Alan Watts and so much of his lectures are... Well i think Douglas Adams must have been a fan!

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1:22:16 chapter 6 bookmark 🔖

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For myself: 3:25:15

Bless Douglaz, but, will the audioplayback pass the Turings test...?

For myself: 2:40:39

grow up with this loved the show and your books brilliant too hear you read it too

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This book is the result of how many psychedelics, do you think?

Dang still can’t hear

so happy to have found this

I thank you for posting these. Even though I've read these books so many times, to be able to hear it read by the author is a treat.

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this is a pleasant reading and i appreciate the post, but by voice and manner I can tell you that the person doing the reading is not Douglas Adams. Douglas *did* do several readings snd several dramatizations and radio-plays.

Bookmark. 3:59:15

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Kind of bizarre I'm listening to this on a device smaller and significantly more useful than the hitchhiker's guide.

YES! An oasis in this desert. A Mona Lisa in this graffiti-filled, abandoned mall. Gracias🚀

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Any other authors like D Adam’s ?

last experienced this as a young adult, now as an old fart on mushrooms...let me tell you... ;-)

🙂

This was great fun for me as a tween in the 1980s. Good book for kids. Kinda droll from an adult's perspective after all that we've seen since. Still, you needa download it for your kids "road trip."

Take A Moment Relax and Enjoy a genius at play. 0:54 😂

Dope, seems like your 1x playback archival matches my 1x playback enjoyment. This has widely been regarded as a good idea.

I actually used to have this tape, among others- the entire series, years ago lost. Thank you so very much!

Martin Freeman's voice resemblance to Douglas Addams' is uncanny.