The Galactic Traveler's Guide was published in audio format at Listen / Read just a few weeks ago. Initially, The Galactic Traveler's Guide is a radio drama, broadcast in 1978. From 1979, it became a novel by the same author: Douglas Adams. It's British humor at Monty Python. There are five volumes in total.
What does it tell?
This is the story of Arthur Dent, a young Englishman a bit soft. He lives in the countryside in a small house. When we meet him at the beginning of the story, he is very upset because bulldozers are in front of his house. They must shave his house. But at the same time, his best friend comes looking for him. It's urgent. He tells her to lift her thumb up. And the two friends are hitchhiking by a spaceship. It was time, the Earth is destroyed a few minutes later. And Arthur's best friend confesses to him that he is not earthly, but that he works for the guide of the galactic traveler, a sort of Guide du Routard but on the scale of the universe.
It's crazy, crazy, and very funny. The book was adapted for film by Garth Jennings in 2005. For those who love nonsense and absurd humor, this book is for you.