[KraziHare]

(This is my own description)

The most inapropriately named trilogy of all time and the best story ever. Arthur Dent is an earth man that happened to become friends (in the lossest terms possible) with a man named 'Ford Prefect' (which may or may not be a kind of car). It turns out one day (as Arthur is trying to save his house from being destroyed to make way for a new interstate bypass) that Ford is an alien and he's trying to get himself and Arthur off the planet before it's destroyed. Ironically (and sadly for Arthur and Ford) the only way off the planet is to stow away on the very alien ship that's going to destroy earth to make way for an interstellar bypass (damn Vogons). They make their way onto the ship only to be caught soon after and forced into listening to the torturous poetry of the captain of the Vogon ship they're on. After failing to placate the odiforous Vogon they were promptly thrown off the ship and, in one of the most improbable circumstances ever, picked up by another ship piloted by Zaphod Beeblebrox and the only other surviving earthling; Tricia Mcmillan (known as 'Trillian'). The story progresses from there (oh, I must also mention the paranoid android called 'Marvin' the robot, basically he's constantly depressed.) Go read the damn thing now, you can get all five books of the series in hardcover form.