Michelle's New Guide to Life

     Okay, so, maybe not my new guide to life, but definitely on my list of favorite books of all times. I'm talking about, of course, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. I had actually started the book at the beginning of the school year, but quickly found that I had no time to finish it. That's why I was exptremely pleased to learn that there is a radio drama version of it. Needless to say, I could be found doing my work in class and chuckling often to myself(I think others thought I was crazy). It was honestly one of the funniest books I've read in a while and I absolutely love Adams' style of humor. It's a sort of dry, ironic humor that I can't get enough of.

     However, if you look beneath the dry wit, you will find a lot of social commentary cleverly hidden within metaphors. Adams discusses everything including religion, politics, and technology.
"This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy." In just two sentences, Adams has summed up humanity's greed and the absurdity of it. By stepping back and viewing "the planet" objectively, it is plain to see that it is a never ending vicious cycle.