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Hitchhikers Guide is dry british humor but it takes wonderful insanity and makes it the norm and poor normal Arthur Dent is stuck in the middle of it. Like, it very simply states that the secret to flying is to fall but miss the ground. Or how 42 is the answer to life, the universe and everything but what was the question? Or it calmly describes a whale’s thoughts in it’s few moments of existence (“oh hello ground!”). Also, a bowl of petunias is involved. I’d say give the 1st volume a try from the library. If its not your sense of humor you’ll realize it straight away in the first few pages and you can return it. If you do like it, there are 4 more books in the trilogy. I first read it way back in HS w/o knowing what it was about and not really liking sci-fi, but I re-read it just about every year without fail.
Just my 2 cents.