Pretty great price (maybe an all time low on Amazon AU?) for an amazing book that's usually around $29 on Amazon and $35 in other retailers.
CamelCamelCamel.
Heavily depends on the reader, their skill level and how much a parent wants to wrap their child in cotton wool (as it does have fruity language, some violence and sexual references). Alternatively, for deeper insight as a parent: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/the-hitchhiker…
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well played. And thanks for all the fish!
Became my favorite book when I read it in year 7.
Some of the humor depends on cultural references that probably have aged - certainly my kids missed some of the humor.
So maybe a little older that that so they have had more exposure to literary references or movies and things.
Same - found it at a fete in year 7, never looked back.
Some of the humour depends on cultural references that probably have aged
"How am I going to operate my digital watch now?"
I don't think there's much if anything in this I would worry about with my 9 year old but so much of it would just go way over his head. Probably 12+ on average, depends on kid.
I was a 9 year old who loved the radio show first time around. I was probably 10 when I read the book. I was a obsessed with it as only a 10 year old can be: I can still quite chunks of it. There's nothing in it to worry a parent, but some concepts will likely go over a 10 year Olds head. It's mostly harmless.
It was meant to be a book for adults when written but times have changed. Children can read it but may not understand some of the terms, references, or jokes.
It's still a good read though.
The English original version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on DVD is much better than the American version.
I can only imagine anyone downvoting this would have not experienced the original radio plays/books/tv series
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-…
The 2005 movie was ok but far from the greatness of the books/radio plays/series
Agree. The original BBC TV series was the best and still is. As is the BBC radio serial from 1978/80. Must have listened to it so many time I could probably recite a lot of it from memory.
Also have The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts book. 25th-anniversary edition of The Original Radio Scripts, including new previously unpublished material from the scripts. Amazon AU 42nd anniversary edition. As well as currently reading the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy eBook.
I own it on vinyl, originals bought back in 80's when my family didn't even own a cassette player yet!
I’ve got the UK version on VHS
Heh, my friends and I read it when it came out, I was 9
You came out at 9, I admire your bravery.
When the book came out (was initially released), the poster Kieranu was nine years of age.
There @kiriakoz, I can see that you have comprehension problems, so just trying to help. 😉
Can't get much more bargain than essentially getting five books in a trilogy for the price of one, and on sale at that.
Is there a deal on towels you can pair with this deal?
Looking for deals on towels - sounds like you may not know where yours is? :p
"If you want to survive out here, you've got to know where your towel is."
Great books, thanks OP. It is still saying 2 in stock, but I believe I got the last one that is actually in stock, as now the shipping times have gone from 13th of march to somewhere between 24th of march and 13th of april
The radio plays are also available, and they are superb. You can find them on youtube/other sites or on cd/casette:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Complete-…
I have the record (aka vinyl), and the apple ii game, as well as the books, etc.
I had entirely forgot about the game! And also entirely forgot that there are a few websites that hosts it, in it's entirety - hah.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN…
I never got past sticking the babel fish in my ear in that game.
See if you can find a copy of the recordings that have Marvin playing Pink Floyd when they land on Magarathea. Listened to it at a friend's place (after hearing the standard one many times) and it totally threw me.
Have they taken that out of some!? I hope not.. it's still in the MP3s i've had, migrating from pc to phone to phone since I was about 12 (a good couple of decades ago now 👴🏻
That was removed from all the official BBC releases up to at least the early '90s. It may have been put back at some point. My BBC tapes (complete with shiny metallic covers but sadly nothing to play them on) didn't have them. Apparently a lot of the music was removed for licensing reasons though many years later they found out that wouldn't have been a problem as Adams was friends with most of Pink Floyd and they'd have been happy to include their music on the releases.
This is actually a book intended for children in the 70s, i think i read it the first time when i was 8, then again at 12.
Each reread you discover something new you you might of missed the times before.
It's definitely accessible for children to a certain degree, but I don't think Douglas Adams had 8 year olds, or even 12 year olds in mind when he wrote things like:
Eccentrica Gallumbits, triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six.
"Some people say her erogenous zones start some four miles from her actual body."
or the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster with:
Its effects are similar to "having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
And a lot of the other clean jokes are about the absurdity of bureaucracy or religion, not really kids jokes.
I always pegged it as undergraduate style humor, in the vein of python or the young ones.
Written for adults that like a bit of absurdity, and teens who do too.
The Reviews
One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering genius — David Walliams
Dazzlingly inventive — Caitlin Moran
Fizzing with ideas … Brilliant — Charlie Brooker
Really entertaining and fun — John Cleese
Much funnier than anything John Cleese has written — Terry Jones
I know for a fact that John Cleese hasn’t read it — Graham Chapman
Who is John Cleese? — Eric Idle
Really entertaining and fun — Michael Palin
Yep, definitely undergrad humour. I think Melb Uni may still have the CHAS club after all these years (Cosmic Hitchhiker's Appreciation Society), I remember members embodying that to a tee.
Eccentrica Gallumbits was described as “The best bang since the big one”.
might have*
Children with time machines, unless by ‘the 7os’ you mean ‘the very last weeks of 1979, after the novel was first released in October’.
children in the 70s
Nah, they'd be called adults.
😉
Surely all you hoopy froods already have this hip book?
Thanks, you hoopy frood
Read these a few times & interviewed DNA in Brisbane - late-80's
He was over the Hitchhiker books & wouldn't discuss them😢
Almost seems more appropriate to buy it as an ebook
Or libgen it if you’re an alien strapped for human money
Wats the book about? Thanks peeps.
Life, the universe and everything
Don't panic.
Planning departments. Infinite improbability. The number 42. Really great poetry. The sort of British surreal campy ridiculousness you'd expect from an ex-writer of Doctor Who.
A very strong cup of Tea
Large mammalians transformed into dainty, soil containing pottery crafted containers.
Marvin, a very depressed robot … “The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million: they were the worst, too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that, I went into a bit of a decline. ”
He also asks: “Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust or just fall apart where I'm standing?”
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OOS - price increased
101010
There are 10 types of people — those who understand binary, and Harvey Norman customers
101010 = 2^5 + 2^3 + 2^1 = 32 + 9 + 2 = 43
The meaning of life, the universe, and everything is… OzBargain (the +1 that Douglas didn’t know about)
Nope, straight off you can see that binary number is an even number, it ends in 0. 2 to the power of 3 is 8.
0.2 to the power of 3 is 8
Wrong. It’s 0.009
@kiteo: Edited what one? This one or that one? I’m confused as to the one that you mean. Binary only has one one, and one zero, you see…
2 to the power of 3 is 8
"And falling!"
Please, just use 2A, it's easier to read.
FF
I’ve probably read like less than 10 books in my life and most of them were by Douglas Adams
Gordon Bennett…
Holly?
Dirk Gently and Last Chance to See are also excellent.
The electric monks from Dirk Gently
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."
Found some clips on youtube of Douglas Adams reading from Last Chance. Brilliant.
He and Terry Pratchett; gone way too soon.
When I first met my, now, partner of 40 years we sat up listening to the radio series of HHGTTG, on audio tapes, all night. Not a bad way to start a relationship.
I have the cassette box too, nice colour scheme ;)
These were sort of “bootleg” ones done straight off the radio.
We’ve got copies of the CD set.
I love the English sense of humour.
I bought book 1 for my nephew for Xmas (he's 9 but a smart cookie) - https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/1529034523
I don't think he'll read it this year but at some point he'll pick it up. Really depends on the person's sense of humour, ability to get nuance etc.
If that's not your young person, don't bother with it.
I was hoping this might be a cheap way to get them all on Audible.
Great bargain. We need more DNA posts on OzB.
The excitement for this deal hung in the air the way bricks don't….
Only ebook available
This is one of those books which I appreciated the high school syllabus here requiring us to read it (I think I was in year 7 or 8?).
Back in stock with dispatch in 1 to 2 months.
Time to have gin and tonic.
How old do you need to be to read this?