It's a great book. Read it right now. The first two in the series (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant At The End of the Universe) are the best.

It's a good book. Trilogy. Quartet.

It's better if you've read the stuff it parodies, though.

>>6896084
Agreed. The man has a way with irony and satire that never fails to make me smile (or giggle uncontrollably).

...But it's barely 4pm...

In any case, why are you still browsing /tg/ goddamn, go read it right now

It's damn brilliant. It's a great book. Douglas Adams is to sci-fi as Terry Pratchett is to fantasy.

After you're done, try tracking down a way to listed to the radio adaptation. I remember listening to it and I loved it, I had a tape to play on every long car trip I went.

You've got my gratitude, teegee. thanks for the opinions
I shall commence reading right now, although it's 11.27pm and the smell of paper makes me want to sleep peacefully :3

Good sir, i do believe there's a fanged creature trying to crawl its way to your collection of books

Ok sirs, my eyes are shutting on their own and won't obey me anymore.

It indeed seems fun

Goodnight

>>6896109
Isn't it a Quintilogy(?) now, what with the 5th not-douglas-adams book?

When you're finished, might I suggest that you move onto (or at least begin) the Dune series. I say you only need the first book, but others will argue my point.

>>6896047
Hitchiker's Guide is awesome.
Other great books include:
Dune
Anything by Alfred Bester, start with The Stars My Destination.
Anything by Philip K Dick.

>>6896047
Soul Drinker
15 Hours

read those

>>6896761
Sextet.

>>6896781
That's not a great example for someone who's only read a few English books (long and full of invented words)... OP, I'd say you'll either love or hate it - it's a bit aloof - but I hope you enjoy it.

>Clark Ashton Smith
Three settings in general, Hyperborea: Pre-historic world with lot's of sorcerers and horrible Lovecraftian things fucking around.
Averoigne: Basically France province in Medieval times with sorcerers and horrible Lovecraftian things fucking around.
Zothique: Dying Earth-style, with sorcerers and sorcerers and magic fucking around.
>Fritz Leiber
The man who coined the term Sword & Sorcery and along with Howard was probably the father of the genre.
If you haven't read him you should. Big superstitious Barbarian and his Thief/former mage apprentice 'civilized' skeptical companion go out on kickass "earn coin & whores" adventures.
>Robert E Howard
Conan. Hyperborea.
CONAN.
>Jack Vance
Dying Earth, Lyonesse, Planet of Adventure, Demon Princes. READ HIM. EN-FUCKING-JOY.
>Lord Dunsany
Sword of Welleran, Gods of Pegana all great stories.
>Mervyn Peake
Gormenghast. Unfinished but fucking awesome political intrigues etc.
>Terry Pratchett
Humorous satire on everything. (early books are meh)
>Roger Zelasny
Chronicles of Amber. Children of a Fey king fuck around with each other trying to gain the rights to the throne now that ol' pa is gone.

>Poul Anderson
Broken Sword: Jarl's son get exchanged with a Changeling by the Elf Lord Imric (changeling sired through Imric raping some troll lord's daughter) also general dickery by Odin.
Tree Hearts and Three Lions: Holger Danske, quintessential D&D Paladin (where Gygax got the archetype iirc) goes out to kick ass and take names, also where the Law/Chaos alignment system was lifted from. Great story.
>Steven Eriksson
Malazan Empire of the Fallen. First book is slow and it gets better and better from there. It starts out with a few human wars until you realize it's all about Gods (ascended mortals) dicking around. VERY GOOD SERIES.
>Gene Wolfe
Executioner kid gets exiled from the Guild, goes out on a mission. Gets in all kinds of trouble.
>Edgar Rice Burroughs
Barsoom (*something* of Mars) series. Fucking great Science Fiction.
>Patrick Rothfuss
In the Name of the Wind. It's fucking great. I won't type a synopsis because it's hard to not spoil it. (and it probably wouldn't -sound- that great anyway)

If you don't read the later books in the series, you miss out on some of the punchlines. So maybe they're not quite as good as the first one... still better than 99.999% of the other books out there.

Should i archive this for a /tg/-approved list of literature? There's a lot of suggestions, and i think i'll continue with Dune and Dying Earth or In the Name of the Wind.

But for now, there's another good 700 pages of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy goodness.
Also fuck my sleep schedule ;_;

Earth series by Kim Stanley Robinson
Since you aren't underage B& you might not enjoy the Commonwealth stuff from Alan Dean Foster
I pimp Wyrm by Mark Fabi whenever I can

>>6896957
>earth series
Hahahaha
Mars series, more like

If you're looking for something steampunky I recommend China Mieville's series; I loved them to pieces.

Perdido St. Station is the first.

>>6896989

Wait what? Steampunk literature?
IM LOOKING FOR THESE FOR FUCKING AGES, THEY EXIST?

>>6897035
>steampunk literature
>looking for ages
You should see an optometrist, my good fellow. You must be blind, man!