Week 14: Satire and Sci-Fi


I have seen The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movies and books, and The story line is very interesting, which is a bit absurd to me, because many things are a bit out of common sense. Though it begins with the destruction of the Earth, it is more a collection of jokes than a heart-wrenching cosmic tale, full of imaginative and satirical jokes.

Such as this for the rest of the only two family earth because of the roads to be torn down, the staff said the notice already posted a while in the garden is you have no comments, then the earth for the universe to roads so be demolition, notice has been posted a while (a few light-years away in the streets to the is your own opinions; The Babel fish, which perfectly translates the language of the whole universe and is just the size of your ear, proves that God does not exist because it is so perfect that it looks as if God created it, because faith cannot be proved; The latest "robot with a Real personality" developed by a famous company is a manic-depressive who solves the villain's spaceship computer by talking to the computer about its view of the universe and then the computer kills itself.

And remember what we said at the beginning, that rats are actually doing experiments on humans.

I feel like I'm getting more and more into this kind of nonsense.All in all, this is a book full of imagination and humor.

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