The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

For many years I worked with a boy who was a little pompous about some things some of the time. It wasn't intolerable. In fact, I counted him as a good friend unless he was being pompous about something. There were three books he was always trying to talk me into reading and because he was a bit pompous about them, I resisted. They were American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Dune by Frank Herbert, and Hitchhiker's Guide. A couple of years ago I tried listening to American Gods on audio but decided it need to be read. Maybe the boy had something to be pompous about after all. I loved this book.

Of course, he's not the reason I read it. I read it because the other day my boyfriend walked into the room I was in and asked, "Look, what are you reading after that?"

I looked down at the book in my hand, closed my eyes, and visualized the stack. "Next I have So Many Books, So Little Time followed by Ecstasia followed by Will Write for Shoes."

He shook his head. "You're going to have to read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy next." He was holding a thick book that was the omnibus of the five books in the trilogy. (I know. But it's a trilogy with five books. I didn't make it up.)

I took my book with me to work the next day, intending to read it only when he wasn't around and then surprise him. The fact that I haven't been reading very much lately would make it perfectly plausible that I made it no farther in my book when he wasn't around. I was quite pleased with myself until I got home that night and realized that I had left the other book I was reading at work. The jig was up. He was still pretty pleased.

Hitchhiker's Guide was unlike anything that I had ever read. A big part of this is that I don't read science fiction pretty much at all. The jargon slowed me down a bit but I laughed ridiculously and it was loaded with lots of little jokes that you can use with other people who have read the book. Don't panic. Always have a towel. 42.

I don't know who to suggest this too. I really enjoyed it but I feel like a lot of my friends would think it was stupid. My bestie told me she had looked at it once and thought it might be a little "off." Well it is, but aren't we all?