Arthur Dent works in the radio business and is about to get his house run over by Mr. L Prosser who is in a bulldozer for a highway bypass. 
 Ford Prefect is a friend of Arthur's that is not a human from Earth as everyone suspects him to be. Instead he arrived on Earth fifteen years ago by accident and has been trying to blend in ever since. 
 Earth has been destroyed be an alien race called the Vogons. By what do you know - a hyperspatial express route (highway!) haha. Zaphod - the president - has stolen one of his own spacecrafts The Heart of Gold along with humanoid Triallian to go on their own adventure. 
 This. Is their story. 
 So much comical greatness! I'm usually one for a more serious vibe in stories but Ford's subtle comments about everything were so great. It was a little too much science fiction for my liking personally though. If I can't visually imagine what I'm reading it makes it really hard to fully engage myself in a story.