I do think it's just because we're used to it that we don't feel the whole impact of HHGG's basic premise, that the whole idea is the whole world has been killed and the whole human race murdered and Arthur is thrust into a strange new universe where literally nobody gives a shit
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I was 18 when I first read the books, and that version of me really loved the thing about him looking at the stars and being inspired to write it. Never occured to me then how nihilistic it was etc, I was too caught up in the adventure.
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For a time frame, I finished them a couple of weeks before I first saw Fellowship of the Ring in the cinema
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It combines with then-recent trends in British comedy of people showing hilariously understated reactions to even the most horrifying or world-shattering events (something Monty Python also draws a lot of its humour from). It might have been really funny to a Brit in 1976, but...
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