Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Well, if Arthur Dent had my copy of 'THHGTTG' he would need to stop off at some intergalatic spaceport and purchase a new one, it's being ragged and falling apart from almost daily worship, since I was 12! That is 16 years of loving this book(s) and quite frankly anyone who deems themselves to have a sense of humour and an insight into the meaning of life, should not even attempt to write a novel, it being a waste of time and all. A sad day when Douglas Adams, passed on, but it would be an endless procession of sad days if he had never written this book in the first place. Simply a 'Masterpiece' and he was simply a genius.