'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams
It was a tough call to decide whether my favourite character was Marvin the Paranoid Android or Zem the mattress, who appeared in the third book of in the five-part trilogy.
'No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from life. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet, private lives in the marshes of Squornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.'
Marvin met a mattress called Zem when he was left on the planet Squornshellous Zeta and eventually got his false leg stuck in a swamp and spent the next 1.5 million years walking around in a circle.
This series is outstanding hilarity. Douglas Adams is right up there with Terry Pratchett in the rankings of science fiction comic genius.
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An absolutely fantastic book - Douglas Adams has such a way with his crazy ideas and I have to admit I have reread Hitchhikers Guide at least half a dozen times since first reading it at age 7.
He really does have a unique perspective on life and it reinforces how important it is not to take life too seriously.
A shame he passed away far too young :-(
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