RCBH928 wrote:Any one read The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy?
Can you please explain to me what is it exactly? Is it a story like Harry Potter and The Da Vinci Code? I need something to listen to on long car trips and I am thinking of getting this on audiobooks.
Feel free to recommend any non-fiction books.
I have, yeah, though not in a while. On the one hand, yes, it's a story, with each volume adding to the overall narrative. I think a lot of the appeal, however, is in the descriptions and explanations, and the general humor that pervades them.
I think the different versions for different media (radio shows, plays, video games, movie, etc) were tuned to that instead of just trying to do the books.
If you've seen the 2005 movie, it's not 100% successful per se, but probably gives a good general idea of the kind of humor and appeal the series has.
But, yeah, comparing it to something like the Da Vinci Code is like comparing Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. They're just not trying to do the same thing.
Regarding non-fiction, um, Masters of Doom and Console Wars were pretty good reads, if you have interest in 90s gaming.
. Try going to starbucks overseas then 
. At least here, I don't think I've ever used the names. Then again starbucks here is just moronic, 4-7 euro for a coffee.
