The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

This is a reread for my book club. The last time I read this book was after the BBC series was aired on PBS way back in the early '80s. I loved the series and I loved the book. Almost forty years later, I thought the book was okay. I think there are several reasons for that. For one, I loved the British humor of the time, specifically Monty Python and Doctor Who. Douglas Adams actually wrote several of the Tom Baker Doctor Who episodes. Second, it was new. Every absurdity was a surprise. I couldn't believe the things that Adams could come up with: the dolphins, the white mice, the sperm whale. Now, absurd British humor seems old hat. It rarely seems fresh anymore, only derivative. Also, the jokes in this book are so iconic that nothing surprised me.

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