Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
4 stars
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Genre: Scifi
Subgenres: comedic farce
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I’ve been meaning to pick this one up for years…maybe even
decades. Luckily, one of the ladies in my book group/Bible study added it to
our list. Mind you, this is the same book club that reads works like Augustine’s
Confessions, Paradise Lost, and Martin Luther. I can’t wait to see how we manage
to apply a Christian worldview to Hitchhiker’s Guide!
I would call Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a cultural must
read. Perhaps not to the level of Hamlet or the Bible, but somewhere in the top
twenty-five at least. This is especially true if you grew up in the 80s when
the novel was still somewhat new. The jokes told by the guys in the chess club
will make a lot more sense.
Clearly the primary genre for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Galaxy is sci fi, but I wasn’t sure how to subclassify it. If you were to ask
me, “What’s it like?” I would say suggest a cross between any Simon Pegg move
(except Star Trek), add a touch of Monty Python and perhaps a little bit of
Galaxy Quest. If you like all those, I’m guessing you’ll love this one. if you don't like any of those, watch them anyway. Cultural classics all.
Quick note – This is probably another one of those
situations where the book and the movie don’t mix. As I read, I kept thinking
about which scenes I would choose and which ones I would omit from the screenplay.
(As well as who I would cast in each role.) The producers of the Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy didn’t agree with me on much. <Heavy sigh>
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