diff --git a/book-reviews/2023-12-18-hitchhiker's-guide-to-the-galaxy/index.md b/book-reviews/2023-12-18-hitchhiker's-guide-to-the-galaxy/index.md index edbcc527e..75661fde7 100644 --- a/book-reviews/2023-12-18-hitchhiker's-guide-to-the-galaxy/index.md +++ b/book-reviews/2023-12-18-hitchhiker's-guide-to-the-galaxy/index.md @@ -3,18 +3,25 @@ title: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy description: | How did it take me so long to finally read this? date: 2023-12-18 -categories: [book review] +categories: [book review, storytelling] draft: false --- ![](photo.jpeg) -# Things I like +This is a classic. First time reading it and I love it. -- got me laughing. -- quips about h +What I love about the storytelling: +> Declare something as unavoidably true, even if ridiculous, and build all content off of it. +- Nobody cares that the infinity probability drive is absurdly improbable. But once the reader just accepts this as fact the rest of the story make sense. -# Takeaways +> get into the mind of the reader +- sperm whale? I love when he's detailing the whales first and last thoughts. Just so random, but hilarious. + +> be spontaneous, but connected. + +- I recently watched the second season of Loki and couldn't stand it. It was all over the place. Random here, random there. But this is great because the spontaneity flows within the confines of the story. +