Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Review

When I first started listening to audiobooks, I tried a couple of different books whose name I don’t even remember and I never got past the first few chapters. Last year, there was something different, I tried listening to the Harry Potter series. All the audiobooks in the Harry Potter series are narrated by Stephen Fry, who also narrated the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 

I went in with high expectations, the whole Harry Potter series, over 100+ hours of listening was so easy because of the writing and narration but I think I might’ve made a mistake of putting too much emphasis on Stephen Fry’s voice and not enough on the story itself.

The book is very short compared to most sci-fi books and it’s also pretty short as an audiobook. This meant not a lot of environment building, long stretches of conversations, things moved very quickly so I wasn’t used to that.

The science fiction didn’t connect for me, there were instances like how the characters from other planets were completely fine communicating with Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect even though they had never gone to Earth (except one). I think the comedy was a bit too out of my league and I didn’t get it.

I think it’s a good book and especially when it was written, it must’ve been a very good book but I think now it felt like some things were just not as expected for me. 

I recommend at least given the book a once over but it’s not one of my favorites.