I've only got five books to recomend : The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, a Trilogy in Five Parts, by Douglas Adams.
The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
Life, The Universe, and Everything
So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish, and
Mostly Harmless.
Quote:
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfasionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lays a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is a small blue-green planet whos ape-decended lifeforms are so hideously backwards that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat thing.
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: Most of the people were mean and the majority were unhappy, even the ones with digital watches. Many problems for this had been suggested, but none were very effective, due to the fact that most were based around the movements of little green pieces of paper, which on the whole is strange because it wasn't the pieces of paper that were unhappy. People commonly agreed that leaving the trees had been a bad idea. Others were of the opinion that the trees had been a mistake, and life should never have left the ocean.
And then, nearly two thousand years after one guy had been nailed to a tree for saying how brilliant it would be to be nice to each other for a change, a girl sitting in a pavement cafe in Rickmansworth realised how it could all work, how it could all be so good. Noone would have to be nailed to anything. Unfortunatly, before she could get to a telephone to tell anyone about her marvellous idea, an astoundingly silly event happened. This is not her story. This is a story of a book. It is a book that had not even been heard of by the residents of the planet until this stupid event occured. This is its story. It starts very simply. It starts with a house.
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P.S. I typed that from memory. Sorry for any mistakes.