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Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is fuckin amazing.

Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett are responsible for 80% of my sense of humor.
- Never found Douglas Adams books funny but loved how entertaining they are. And discword is one of my favourite series, Pratchett's writing style makes the books effortless to read.
- I really love Douglas Adams books and just going through the middle of the colour of magic... Not feeling like the best book ever, but enjoying It so far. Any recommendations for the next one from Terry Pratchett's discworld saga? Too many to choose from.. 😔
  
  Edit: didn't expect so many replies, thank you all!!
- I just wanted to recommend Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley Its a very similar style of humor and was actually written before Hitch Hikers. The audiobook is particularly exceptional.
- I've never read any Pratchett. Any suggsstions on what would be a good startingpoint (as a particularly good example of his writing)?
  
  E: It seems this question was mostly answered in other comments.
I'm not much of a reader but thoroughly enjoyed these books.

Probably the best opening to any non Pratchett book.

I personally really like Mark Lawrence's red sister opening slightly more for its world building and absurdity until you find out why nuns and the MC particularly are so dangerous in that world
Seveneves starts with the moon shattering.
- And Seveneves is a really good book!
  
  But to me at least there's something incredible and perfect about Douglas Adams jokingly summing up all that ever was, is and will be in two sentences that while almost nonsense also completely capture the situation.
”The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

Perhaps my favorite quote of all time is, "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." So simple, effective, and utterly hilarious.

I always liked "one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change".

I remember spending way too long figuring out the very first puzzle in the old text based adventure game that had me stuck in the dark. All you have to do is open your fucking eyes.

I never figured out how to manage to grab the electronic thumb that Ford was carrying to get off the planet.

I did find out that "Fuck" was programmed in as a command. I got frustrated and typed "Fuck Ford." The game spat back "This is a family entertainment game, not a video nasty."
- Sounds like you should have been playing Leather Goddesses of Phobos
- You sit at the bar and get drunk. You also eat some peanuts. I think Ford pushes the button or he gives it to you to hold while he goes to the loo.

My replacement copy of the increasingly inaccurate trilogy, Ultimate,6 story copy just made it this weekend!

HHGTTG, Restaurant at The End of The Universe, Mostly Harmless, So Long and Thanks for all the Fish, Young Zaphod plays it Safe. What's the 6th?

My edition only has those 5, I think.
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- Mostly Harmless is the fifth book and Young Zaphod followed it, I thought.

I just finished a book called "The prophet and the idiot" that gave me similar vibes as Douglas Adams. Not the same but very entertaining

I'd be content with the 'never left the trees' part of that page.

One of my favorites is the Total Perspective Vortex. Every thing in the universe affects every other thing. Therefore you can see everything that is going on by examining a slice of fairy cake.

I feel sorry for Douglas, his work has gone the way of monty python and become over used cringe.

It was a fun read as a kid but too many adults base their whole personality on it and it makes me hurt.

Let people enjoy things