It's All Too Much vs The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Which Should You Read?
It's All Too Much
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Whether it’s tidying up or tiny-house living, the decluttering revolution is taking America by storm. In It’s All Too Much organizational expert Peter Walsh reveals the tools for taking control of your physical—and…
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.”
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's…
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The verdict
- Readers rate The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy highest: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4.2 · It's All Too Much 3.8.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has the widest readership — 2070422 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| It's All Too Much | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (6923) | 4.2 (2070422) |
| Hardcover | 2.0 (1) | 4.1 (108) |
| Apple Books | 3.5 (86) | 4.5 (1216) |
Reception
| It's All Too Much | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 6923 | 2070422 |
| Editions | 2 | 130 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 7605 | 1155684 |
| Reading it now | 338 | 43208 |
| Written reviews | 849 | 60089 |
| Wikipedia attention | 3337 | 66663 |
| Pages | 240 | 289 |
Questions readers ask
Which is rated higher: It's All Too Much or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has the higher combined reader rating across sources (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4.2/5, It's All Too Much 3.8/5).
Which is shorter to read: It's All Too Much or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
It's All Too Much is the quickest read. Estimated at 225 words per minute: It's All Too Much (240 pages, ≈ 4 h 27 m); The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (289 pages, ≈ 5 h 21 m).
Which is harder to read: It's All Too Much or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Estimated difficulty, based on era, reader shelves and length — It's All Too Much: Moderate; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Moderate.
Have both books been made into films?
It's All Too Much: no film adaptation on record; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 1 film adaptation.