The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams | Book Club

Suggested by: Steven
Pages to read: 821
ISBN: 0345453743 (Originally listed edition & Edition Eugene is using)

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While reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What did humans think of evolutions?
•Who is Arthur Dent?
•Why is Arthur Dent’s home being demolished?
•Who is Ford Prefect?
•What is Ford Prefect’s profession?
•How did Ford and Arthur escape Earth?
•hat is time?
•What is the purpose of a towel?
•What is the Heart of Gold?
•Who is Zaphod Beeblebrox?
•What happened to Zaphod’s brain(s)?
•How did Zaphod behave?
•ho is Trillian?
•Who is Marvin?
•What power does the President of the Imperial Galactic Government have?
•Who are the Vogons?
•What did the Vogon’s think of evolution?
•Who are the Dentrassis?
•Why are there Dentrassis on a Vogon ship?
•What ideas about human speech did Ford have?
•What does The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy say about the Earth?
•What makes poetry bad?
•How did Arthur and Ford survive the Vogons?
•How is the universe governed?
•What happened to the scientists who figured out the Infinite Improbability Drive?
•What is Magrathea?
•What happened to the missiles that were launched from Magrathea?
•What is Deep Thought?
•What is the smartest species on Earth?
•What was the purpose of the Earth?
•What is the meaning to Life, The Universe, and Everything?
•Why 42?
•What is the question for the answer of 42?
•What is so important about Arthur’s brain?
•What did the crew of the Heart of Gold survive Magrathea?

While reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What is the Earth?
•What was preoccupying the ship computer when the Vogons attacked?
•What is the chronology of the Beeblebrox family?
•What did Zaphod do to Zaphod’s brain to get elected President?
•Why did Zaphod want to become President?
•How did the Hitchhikers escape the Vogon attack?
•Why did the Vogons attack the Heart of Gold?
•What is the purpose of the Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses?
•How accurate is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
•Who is Zarniwoop and why does Zaphod want to see Zarniwoop?
•Why do elevators not want to go up?
•How was Marvin supposed to stop the Frogstar tank?
•Who is Roosta? What king of towel does Roosta have?
•What happens in the Total Perspective Vortex?
•What happened when Zaphod went into the Total Perspective Vortex?
•What is the Shoe Event Horizon?
•What was happening to the passengers of the Transtellar Cruise Lines?
•What are the problems of time travel?
•What is The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
•What is the Disaster Area?
•What king of year is Hotblack Desiato having?
•What does it mean to meet the meat?
•How did Marvin end up at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
•Why do the hitchhikers steal another ship rather than go back to the Heart of Gold?
•What ship did they steal? What are the properties of the stolen ship?
•How did The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy override the Galactic Copyright laws?
•What is Arthur’s purpose in life?
•What happened to the Belcerebon people?
•What do people think of a transference beams?
•How did the Hitchhikers escape the stunt ship?
•What is the purpose of Ark B?
•What happened to the Golgafrincham?
•Who should be President? Who should not be President?
•What happened during the meeting with ruler of the Universe?
•What is the secret to healthy hitchhiking?
•What planet and time did Arthur and Ford end up on after the transference beam?
•Who are the occupants of the planet the Arthur and Ford ended up on?
•How did the survivors of Ark B survive?
•How the Ark B survivors want to reduce inflation?
•Why did the Ark B survivors go to war?

While reading Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•Would you like to be stranded in time or place?
•Who is Arthur Dent?
•Where has Arthur been stranded?
•Who is Wowbagger and what does Wowbagger do?
•Why go mad?
•Who is Ford Prefect?
•How does it feel to talk to someone after not speaking to anyone for a very long time?
•How to fly?
•What happened to the Golgafrinchans?
•Does listening help with understanding?
•How does Arthur react at the cricket game?
•What is an S.E.P.?
•Who is Slartibartfast?
•What is the Bistromathic Drive?
•Do numbers at a restaurant make sense?
•Who is Marvin?
•Where was Marvin when talking to Zem and what was Marvin doing?
•What is the ancient threat to the universe that Slartibartfast is afraid of?
•What makes up the key to the threat to the universe?
•Who is Trillian?
•Who is Zaphod Beeblebrox?
•What is Zaphod’s problem?
•What does Trillian think of Zaphod?
•What is Krikkit?
•What happened to the people of Krikkit?
•What happened to the time streams?
•How can someone understand time travel?
•What are the Campaigners for Real Time?
•Where has Arthur been diverted?
•Who is Agrajag?
•How has lunch effected The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?
•What is the correlation between obsession and play time of the Brockian Ultra Cricket?
•What are the features of the longest and most destructive party even held?
•What does ‘Belgium’ mean?
•What is the Ultimate Weapon designed by Hactar?
•Who are the Silastic Armorfiends?
•What is the Wikkit Key?
•How did Zaphod survive the Krikkit robots?
•What do the Krikkit people want?
•Who is Hactar?
•Why did Hactar think the mission was completed?
•Who is Prak?
•What effect does truth drug have?
•What is the Question to the ultimate Answer?

While reading So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•Who is Rob McKenna?
•How did Ford Prefect want to pay for drinks at the Old Pink Dog Bar?
•How is The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy influence used?
•What did Ford expect to find in the entry for Earth, and what was found?
•Was the Earth destroyed?
•What are the reasons given about Vogons?
•What happened to Arthur’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book?
•Why do the British eat sandwiches on Saturday?
•Who is Fenny, or rather, Fenchurch?
•What happened every time that Arthur wanted to tell Fenchurch about what happened?
•What happened to the phone number that Fenchurch gave Arthur?
•What did Arthur try to do to find the location of the cave that Arthur lived while on prehistoric Earth?
•How are hallucinations used?
•What happened to the dolphins?
•What is wrong with Fenchurch?
•Who is Wonko the Sane?
•How did Ford Prefect arrived on Earth?
•Who did the Robot want to see?
•Why did Fenchurch want to hitchhike across the galaxy?
•What happened to Marvin?
•How old is Marvin?
•What happened to Trillian and Zaphod?
•Who is allows to use the little scooters in the Great Red Plain?
•What was the Message that was sought?

While reading Young Zaphod Plays It Safe by Douglas Adams, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What did the natives of the planet think about the spaceship?
•What was on the crashed ship?
•What was the purpose of the crashed ship?
•Why did the ship crash?
•What was Zaphod Beeblebrox doing during the salvage operation?
•Who were the people from the Safety and Civil Reassurance Administration?
•What are Aorist rods?
•What were the officials looking for?

While reading Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book? Why do people read this book?
•What are some limitations of the book?
•To whom would you suggest this book?
•What happened to history?
•What is MSOGMM?
•What are the different versions of Trillian (Tricia)?
•What is Rupert?
•Why do aliens want to see Tricia?
•What happened to the Grebulon’s and what were they meant to do?
•What is different about the offices of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy?
•What is InfiniDim Enterprises?
•What is the Guide’s new business plan?
•What is an Ident-I-Eeze?
•What is the planet of NowWhat?
•Who is the president of NowWhat?
•What happened to Fenchurch?
•Who is Colin?
•How did Ford get into the Guide?
•What is a computer terminal?
•What could have Ford do to the Guide, and what did Ford actually do?
•What was on the planet Hawalius?
•What advice was Arthur given at Hawalius?
•What defined the universe?
•What prayer is often forgotten?
•What happened on Bartledan?
•How did Arthur survive the crash?
•Who knew about the crash?
•What skill does Ford have in dangerous situations?
•Is there significance to the 13th floor?
•What power do complete fools have?
•Who is the Sandwich Maker?
•Who is Random?
•What are Perfectly Normal Beasts?
•What were frighting about the Vogons?
•What are day-care time zones?
•What did the villagers think about spaceship crashes?
•To whom was the package the Arthur received sent to? What did Arthur want to do with the package?
•How did the crash effect the ecosystem?
•What is the Guide?
•What does it mean to have filters on the universe?
•How did Ford get to Arthur?
•How did Ford and Arthur leave the planet?
•What did Tricia think of the videotape Tricia took of the aliens on Rupert?
•Where did al the hitchhikers arrive at?
•Why did the Vogon come to sector inhabiting Earth?

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