The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Warning: below is more of a shared memory than a review.

Reread this recently as sort of a “buddy” read with my daughter. I feel pretty confident in saying I still love this book. It's not nostalgia talking when I say it's one of the funniest books I'd ever read and probably formed a lot of the basis of my sense of humor and ways of thinking.

It is my standard for a humorous book and my eventual attraction to Discworld started with this series. There was a whole entire phenomenon with this series in the early '80s with a radio show, PBS series, and of course the book. I'm happy to be old enough to remember all that even though I was too young to read the book at the time. I picked this book up the first time as young as the age of eleven, and a lot of it went over my head I'm sure, but I still enjoyed it.

It is more than just funny. There is great world-building, characters with huge personalities, and lots of philosophic ideas and other stuff that just gets you thinking and laughing.