Books like this really make me wish that Goodreads had a half-star mechanism, because I would rate this at 4.5 and a 4 seems a bit harsh.

When I first started, I could not be more hyped. I saw many people compare the start to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and I thought the exact same thing. Top tier British humor in a wacky, end of the world scenario, simply loved it. And though I may be coming to an inflection point here, the rest of the book is really enjoyable and funny. Though I haven't seen it, I am not surprised they made a TV show out of this, there's a lot of gold to mine here. But (here's that inflection point I promised), it never really lives up to the insanely high hype that I started to expect, with my own comparisons to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the authors' pedigree. It is still a great book that I highly recommend, but a shoulder below classic humor books like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.