My kind of silly.
I'd known the story for many years, but didn't realise it was written in the 70s (or "nearly 80s"). My best knowledge of it was the movie with Martin Freeman in 2005 … which, didn't quite live up to my expectation round the hype.
The book I found to be better (than the film - sorry purists - I know I shouldn't compare!), though I couldn't stop hearing Alan Rickman's voice as Marvin.
I did sort of feel like nothing actually happened in the book. It was an adventure, but I think I missed the character arcs - or… I wasn't sure where to look!
Overall, good, funny and properly silly.
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It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.'
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Ford slapped a five-pound note on the bar. He said, 'Keep the change.' 'What, from a fiver? Thank you, sir.'
Whatever it was raced across the sky in its monstrous yellowness, tore the sky apart with a mind-buggering noise and leapt off into the distance leaving the gaping air to shut behind it with a bang that drove your ears six feet into your skull.
'And what's happened to the Earth?' 'Ah. It's been demolished.' 'Has it?' said Arthur levelly. 'Yes. It just boiled away into space.' 'Look,' said Arthur, 'I'm a bit upset about that.'
His feet began to leak out of the top of his head.
I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.'
'I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.'