this is actually really boring and unfunny
>>8230353
Yes. Please stop posting about it.
>>8230353
Is it really, OP? srs question. Thinking about picking it up but I'm having reservations.
>>8230353
lol I know right. the only thing that ever made me smile was zaphod? Bumblebee?
>>8230415
go on reddit and head over to the writing subreddits, thats literally this whole book
>>8230415
http://www.ebooktrove.com/top_ten/DouglasAdams_TheHitchhikerTrilogy_5Books1ShortStory.pdf
>>8230425
Yea pretty much this, the book influenced the surface nerd culture so much that the type of humor has been exhausted
When I read it I found the first chapter the funniest so perhaps sample that before buying the whole book?
it's like a knockoff vonnegut retelling doctor who episodes
this is reddit this is memes
>>8230479
this is broken children seams
>>8230445
Finally someone said it.
Also, maybe thats because Douglas Adams has written Dr Who episodes?
I dislike it because it's popular
Seriously though, fuck reddit, their taste in literature is the worst
Yeah guys, the book sucks because people I don't like it.
Yeah guys, the rival nerd camp likes this books let's burn it.
Yeah guys this book which was written before Reddit or 4chan ever existed is just for people from Reddit.
Read the book faggots.
I love this book quite a lot actually
Have read it probably 10 times or so
A good start into British humor I think
>>8231055
British people aren't funny
>>8231055
>British
>humor
>>8231073
they're funny looking
HGTG is like Terry Pratchett with all the bad parts turned up and all the good parts turned down. It's lazy workmanlike randumbXDshit. Because it was written by and for early reddit-types it doesn't have a trace or sincerity in it, either- Adams is too cowardly to drop the irony for even a second.
>>8231133
Except it's not, it's just lazy irony. Where did brits acquire this reputation as black comics? Name one single example.
>>8231147
british humor is dry
gervais
First time I've said "woah the movies actually way better" lol
>>8231160
British humor is not fucking dry! They still use laugh tracks routinely there for christssake! You teaboos just have some inferiority-complex and like to think british culture is fancy. British humor is nothing but shallow irony- saying leWACKY stuff in a serious tone. it's literally fucking alt-lit before alt-lit existed
>>8231147
Whats your baseline? What books do you considered to be funny?
>>8231190
you're talking about americanized british humor
>>8231198
Infinite Jest.
>>8231246
>Okay, then give me some humor written by TRUE englishmen.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
>>8231246
PEEP SHOW
>>8231246
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace you whore
>he can't get comfy
i'd feel bad for you brah but i'm all comfy here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTNuldPhP20
>>8231246
Wodehouse.
>>8232108
Why is the voice only in the right channels? Fucking Brits, can't do anything right.
As someone else said, the nerd-science humor in here was a novelty in its time (around 1980 I think) but now it has been exhausted by countless tv shows, mainly Futurama but also The Big Bang Theory maybe. Not to mention there is a strong british humor component here that you may or may not enjoy. Anyway, I recommend hunting down the original radio shows from which the book is an adaptation. It's funnier that way
>>8230482
What do you mean?
>>8231147
Terry Pratchett is not exactly good either, even for a genre fiction. He's passable. HGTG is not much better, though it was much more influential for a pop culture and thus more worthy to read.
