Moments before Earth is destroyed, Ford Prefect, an alien who’s been incognito for 15 years while researching a newer edition of THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, rescues his friend, Arthur Dent. The two stow away on a passing spaceship, and their adventures begin. Ford and Arthur encounter ex-hippie Galaxy President Zaphod Beeblebrox; Marvin, the morose robot; and a slew of otherworldly weirdos populating Douglas Adams’s cult classic. Stephen Fry’s performance is priceless as the interstellar travelers tumble from one near disaster to another. His voice shifts are inspired bits, half schtick, half nonsense. Without editorial comment, Fry injects just the right touches of irony into Adams’s cheeky, always hilarious social satire. This is sure to please fans of Spider Robinson’s THE CALLAHAN CHRONICLES and Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD series. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
Make ‘em laugh! That’s the straightforward goal of all the authors whose audiobooks we chose for this list. Novelists, humorists, podcasters, bloggers, stand-up comedians, satirists, celebrities, and even a celebrity’s assistant — they’re all working hard just to make us LOL. We guarantee your funny bone will be tickled. But don’t be surprised if these […]
If you love to laugh then you’re in luck, because we’ve gathered 50 of the funniest books of all time on this can’t-miss list. From the dark and dry to the witty and wry, from the fictive to the factual, from travel logs to comedic blogs, this extensive collection of humor both classic and new […]
Movies are magical and wonderful of course, presenting us with eye-popping, realistically-rendered scenarios of adventure, action, romance, and intrigue. But where do the screenwriters behind those movies get their ideas? Well, sometimes they make them up, because writers are wired that way. But frequently, a movie is an adaptation of a work from another medium, […]
Think of National Novel Writing Month as the Author Olympics: a crazy event that comes around every year and offers up a challenge that goes beyond sales numbers, advances, or any other data point used to measure success. NaNoWriMo asks a simple question: can you write a novel-length story in just one month? For years now, […]
