If we go by the name, then this blog should be about all the things beautiful and wonderful, especially when it comes to the written word. But I just have to make this one post about a book which was a total waste of time for me. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
I had heard so much about this book from totally different people over the years. The more they recommended it to me, the less I wanted to read it. And I wish I had listened to my instinct. But one seemingly good day, I went out and bought the book. The damn cover was so boring that the book lay on my shelf for a good three months before I picked it up!
It was so bad. BAD, BAD, BAD. And bad once more. It was so juvenile that I am sure my kid brother who, by the way will laugh at any joke, would have loved it. Gargle Blasters? The Improbability Drive? Deep Thought? I can't for the life of me understand how any grown up can find that even remotely interesting.
And to top off all this nonsense is a story that is not really a story. It is just a long, really really long rambling about some things ( I can't even recall what the basic idea of the story was!).
The funny part is, the person who recommended me this book, told me to read it because it was "just so damn funny." Kinda disgracing the phrase "damn funny", I think. There were some witty one-liners, I'll admit. But either they were too gentle a comedy for me to have a hearty laugh, or they were simply too witty for me to understand. The book, to me, seemed to be an endeavor in writing witty one-liners.
So after serious reflection and "deep thought", I have reached the conclusion that this book is fit only for geeks star-trooper-like dressed nerds, another craze I do not understand.
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