Sorry for the late upload, but Happy Towel Day! =D
I was busy finishing reading The Hitchhiker's Guide series for this special day. XP I had to finish up on the last half of And Another Thing... and then the short story, Young Zaphod Plays it Safe before I was finally finished with the series. =o

Like my towel? GFK made it for me. X3 It looks awfully familiar. =o

Hope you know where your towel is today! =D For those who don't know, today is the day celebrated by Hitchhiker's Guide fans for Douglas Adams by carrying a towel with them:
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."



The series is absolutely amazing. Many great jokes and an amazing purposely overlycomplicated story. And Eoin Colfin's 6th book for the series was absolutely amazing and ended the series perfectly.

lolz, I even noticed Alice references. Not that surprising seeing as it's as random as Alice is, but IT'S IN SPACE. For example, in the first book, 42 might be taken as a reference since it's Carroll's fave number and is used in the Alice series quite a bit. In the second book, Milliways' motto says something about doing "six impossible things before breakfast" which is exactly what the White Queen does. In the fifth book, Arthur and Fenchurch talk about how stories can be crazy or something and mentions "a white rabbit in a waistcoat." And even Eoin Colfer decided to add on to this by talking about "Say what you mean and mean what you say," which is part of a conversation between the Mad Hatter and Alice.

So yeah, the series is basically an overlycomplicated Alice... IN SPACE! Loved it. <3

Here's the names of the books in the "trilogy" if you wanted to know:
The Hitchhiker's 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 Another Thing... (sequel by Eoin Colfer)
Young Zaphod Plays it Safe (short story)