"Far out in the uncharted backwarters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

This is the beginning of the first book of the only existing triology consisting of five novels:

Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

If you grew up being somehow connected to technology this is for sure a very well known story for you. In fact I hardly know anyone not knowing it.

The story is from easy to complicated, from funny to bizzare. Over the last 20+ years it became nearly a religion to many people. Of course my bookshelf is the home of five paperbacks as well !

While spending some nice days in Reykjavik for an SwyxECR Developers Training the other day I found a complete version of it as one book in a bookstore, folded in leather and having golden edges on each page. So it really looks like the holy bible. Of course I couldn't resist ...

This week we had lots of nice people from Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium and Italy in the offices in Dortmund for a series of trainings. Well, if you are a regular on this site you know at least from Morten that he was one of the Norwegians being on a kind of religios trip to the holy halls of Swyx.

If this book, currently laying on my desk, hadn't drawn such an interest I wouldn't have thought to write something about it here. But it did, and so you have to read about it now.

If you ever thought of putting something really beautiful into your bookshelf, filling one of the gaps in your knowledge or refreshing the never ending quote generator here are the links to Amazon to get your hands on it: amazon.de, amazon.co.uk and amazon.com.