Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy

Listening to several of the Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy's radio episodes I absolutely fell in love with the series. It would accompany me late at night in the studio and keep me fully interested into whatever I was working on. The science fiction we had read prior to this week was serious and in depth with world building, where Hitchhikers has witty British humor and an adventure with two peasants of this universe. The Alien, Ford Perfect, named himself after what he thought was the most popular life form in the universe, the ford automobile, and his partner Arthur Dent. The story itself is so over detailed to the point were it should be annoying, but nevertheless I'm still listening to it. I want to know what happens next with Arthur and Ford. Its no surprise to me that the series was so popular when BBC first aired it in 1978. The story has incredible nonsensical detail and manages to make light of a very serious philosophical question: what is the meaning to life, everything, and the universe? Furthermore, there seems to be a cult following for the radio series as well as the books and movie similar to that of Rocky Horror Picture Show or Mars Attacks. 

I think this series is drastically different then anything we have read prior to this week because of the witty humor and the over detailed writing. The writing in this story is incredible, its so funny with how it describes the setting for Ford and Arthur when they change places. There is a narrator for this part where he will go into mass detail about how certain items or places function (which is usually humorous and absurd).