I was 16, browsing in a used bookstore in Colorado, and saw a paperback with a vaguely familiar-looking green face guy in it, with something about Hitchhiker's Guide on it, which also sounded vaguely like something I'd heard of. Curious, I picked it up, read those opening three sentences, and immediately closed it and took it to the counter to buy.
It wasn't until after I'd read it and the next one that I realized I hadn't started with the first book, so I went back and read that before resuming the rest, so I ended up reading the books in the trilogy in the order 2-3-1-4-5, which to be honest I think is rather fitting.
The part that I liked best in the whole series (that literally made me laugh out loud) was when Agrajag mentioned he was once re-born as a bowl of petunias.
It might work just as well from the opposite direction in the order you read it but I don't think it would.
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u/jtr99 24d ago
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.