The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

4.5
5 for the first 2 books, 4 for the next 3.

This book is an explosion of ideas, splattered on the walls of the writers mind in unimaginable combinations, written down with no sense of need of any sort of order or meaning. I don't know if the previous sentence makes any sense. It's fine even if it doesn't. It's ineffable.

By the end, I was surprised to notice that there was a storyline after all, which almost always eluded me during the course of reading.

Arthur Dent, an Earth man goes on adventures around the universe, when his home is supposedly destroyed. A summary of the book cannot be expanded anymore than this, because I can't really find a plot line to focus on.

You don't pick up this book for its characters or storyline. This is just a fun read; laugh-out-loud fun at times. Now that I've finished reading it, I could randomly pick a chapter and read, and be satisfied - have a good laugh.

If you are the least bit interested in SF, satire or comedy, this would be on your must read list.

Funniest book I've ever read.