Despite the fact that many, many people enjoy this book, I did not. I found it not to my liking primarily because it made no sense, and yes I know that it's not supposed to, hence the name of the Improbability Drive and such. But nevertheless, a summary shall follow. If you don't like spoilers, I wouldn't read what follows.
In the book, our two primary protagonists are a human named Arthur Dent, and an alien that has been stranded on Earth and is going by the name Ford Prefect. Soon into the book, Earth is destroyed, and our protagonists are taken aboard a spaceship. The captain of said ship doesn't tolerate hitchhikers however, and they are jettisoned into space. For reasons unknown, the recently ejected are taken in by a second spaceship, that happens to be stolen by the President of the Galaxy - turned -thief. At this point, the band of travelers find a planet thought to be legend, and find that not only is the planet devoid of life, but actually still very capable of defending itself. Oh, and because it's from legend, and all good legends have something cool, this particular planet actually creates other planets.
**Super spoiler**
While exploring the planet, Arthur is separated from his party, and meets a strange man who decides to show Arthur exactly what Earth was all about. As it so happens, Humans are not the most intelligent of species in the world. Dolphins are second, and actually warned us of impending doom, which we took to be stage tricks. It is revealed that what we took to be a double-backflip while whistling the star-spangled banner was actually dolphin for 'So long, and thanks for all the fish.' What is the most intelligent of the species you ask? The lab mouse. Arthur is told that mice are so cunning that they were conducting experiments on us while pretending it was the other way around.
So, honestly I didn't like it that much. But there is no book that every single person likes - there can't be.
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