My Favorite Author

          Recently Douglas Adams has become one of my favorite authors, because of his amazing series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but mostly his writing style. In the book I have begun to read Life, The Universe, and Everything Douglas Adams writes in the first few stages about a man stranded in a desert in Africa in the 1950’s who has not spoken to anyone and has not been spoken too in over 5 years. But more importantly, he has not been insulted. Except once. Two years into his strandidness an alien space craft landed from the sky and a man popped out of it and asked, "Are you Arthur Dent?" Arthur then responded with yes, and the man said, "Your an A**hole Mr. Dent." And he left.

       This is merely on of the completely random things that Douglas Adams includes in his work. Randomness is good a little at a time. He does it perfectly, and he ties all his seemingly random things back into a form. This is what I personally look for in a good teacher and writer.

       I can' twait to finish this book and head on to the last two books in this series. If you love Science Fiction I suggest you give it a try!

Life, The Universe, and Everything

      The title of book I'm about to read in this trilogy of five, is Life, The Universe, and Everything. Its is the sequel to The Resturant at the End of the Universe, Which is the sequel to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Both of those books were very good! The second book however is one of those tv episodes in a series that is quite boring, until the last few minutes where it REALLY advances the plot. The first book was incredible for one of many reasons, and a few not so much... I'll give you the bad stuff first. YOU WILL be confused in the first chapter AND YOU WILL go back and read it after you finish it. It makes almost zero sense until you read the second and third chapter where it puts everything into perspective. The book can also be dull at times, but not for very long.
     Some of the reasons why it was amazing is it put the Earth into a bigger sequence of events. A previous machine had determined that the answer to the universe and everything is 42. That machine constructed a new machine to find the QUESTION. That machine was named earth. Earth is sadly blown up minutes before it would have had the answer.
     Hopefully the next book will continue the relationship between these two machines and the question. They did say the answer to the life, the universe, and everything is 42. This book title is that question so I'm hoping that the author will continue this story.

My Favorite Book: The Hobbit

The Hobbit is my favorite book because of my love for science fiction along with the re-readablility that the book has. J.R.R. Tolken is one of my favorite authors because he allows a little imagination with whats going on, along with what is actually happening. You can never guess whats going to happen no matter how many times you've read it.

The world that Tolken created was a magnificent world of science fiction and reality put together. It is science fiction enough that you know it couldnt exist, but the constant reminder of reality makes you wish it was. The race of the hobbits are smaller people with large hairy feet, generally liking to stay in their hole. But Gandalf the Grey almost forces hobbit on an adventure. This is my favorite part in the book because it could be alluded to so many things in reality. Almost like a rude awakening, to some people, to others it could be a blessing.



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