Enjoyment (10/10):
Holy cow, how can one not enjoy this book – it has such a unique and fresh humor style that it just sparks such joy. How Douglas Adams was so frequently able to deliver great concepts such as talking doors, spontaneous whales, dolphins, highway construction irony, etc. My favorite line still in my head all these years later…. “The ships hovered in the sky much in the way bricks do not.” The concept of using The Heart of Gold as an improbably drive to deliver such comical madness is great. The such anti-climatic geek fandom 42 is great. I have way to many compliments for this book, that I shall end it here and just say read it please.
Learning (2/10):
While this may rank as one as my favorite books of all time, I did not learn much from it except of-course only the answer to everything… 42.
Broadening (4/10):
Surprisingly I rank this somewhat positive for broadening of my mind just for the fact that I contemplate some of the scenarios encountered still in the book. The world as a matrix/simulation per-se is somewhat of a famous philosophical conundrum and interesting to contemplate. Additionally I just loved the irony so much that the answer to life and everything is 42, a completely nonsensical answer, but truly, how can there be an answer, let alone a simple one, to life?
Closing Remarks:
100% recommend anyone to read this book as it is such a fresh unique comedy style that everyone should experience at least once. The movie does not do it justice.