This book (later adapted to a movie) is summed up in one word...crazy...
Imagine if the author, Douglas Adams, sat down to write it with a long line of tequila shots on one side of his table, a bowl full of assorted hallucinogenic drugs on the other side of the table, and his laptop in the middle- You'd get some idea about how crazy the book is...
Let wiki continue things- do note that the first line on the article is- "all or part of this article may be confusing or unclear', which is just how these books do, y'know?
The book begins when contractors arrive at Earthling Arthur Dent's house in order to demolish it to make way for a bypass. Arthur's friend Ford Prefect arrives as Arthur is attempting to talk the demolition crew into leaving his house standing, and talks Arthur into coming to a local pub with him, at which point Ford explains that he (Ford) is actually from a planet somewhere near Betelgeuse and that they have to get off the planet before it's demolished. An alien race of bureaucrats called Vogons intend to destroy Earth to make way for a "hyperspace bypass".
After which, they hitch-hike across the galaxy, being tortured by bad poetry, dealing with manic depressive robots and elevators that can look into the future, journeying, meeting the president of the Galaxy, quite literally to the end of the universe and back again, being blown back in time, forward in time, or just blown up, quite often...
After which they finally find the Answer to Life, The Universe and everything in it...
Makes for some incredible reading, but it's comedy of a slightly nerdy kind...if you haven't done any science in your short life, you may not get some of the more subtle jokes...
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