Life, the Universe and Everything

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Summary: Another one in the series that'll make you ponder
Review: Authur Dent and his alien companion Henry Ford are stuck on prehistoric earth. From there anything goes. They are then sweep through time only to arrive on earth one day before its obliteration. From there they join Slartibartfast and start on a voyage to save the universe from total destruction. There the possiblities are endless the probablities are high and anything goes.

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Summary: Reunion with old friends
Review: It's been a pleasure once again to read about the adventures of the always ignorant Arthur Dent, party-seeker Ford Prefect and universally cool guy Zaphod Beeblebrox.

This part provides a nice mix of interstellar adventures, English cricket (not to be confused with the destructively peaceful people of Krikkit), random verbal abuse and an excellent floating party.

Douglas Adams provides to be still witty and entertaining. I'm glad this is not the end of the trilogy.

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Summary: Amazing as always
Review: Douglas Adams has done it again. A hysterical addition to the trilogy. If you love comedy and science fiction this is a must read. Ideal for children aged 12-102.

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Summary: Good, But No Classic
Review: The first two books in the Hitchhiker Trilogy are two of the funniest, most entertaining books that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. This, the third book, is also enjoyable along those lines, but not as good. Certainly it has it's share of funny moments and clever writing prose, but it's not up to the level of the first two books (especially The Restaurant At The End of the Universe, still the funniest books I have EVER read.) Thankfully, the follow-up, So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish is back up to the stellar level of the first two books. All in all, this is a good and entertaining book, but slightly slow at times and perhaps a bit overlong. You'll have to read it after reading the first two books, and you'll enjoy it, but don't expect a classic.

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Summary: A little off the hook, but the more the merrier.
Review: This book was a rather entertaining book by its principals and characters alone. It's about these ignorant people on their little secluded planet called Krikkit who don't know if anything else is out there. Eventually a ship crashes and arises the curiosity to see what is going on out there. They finally see and the result isn't to their liking so they plan to destroy it... all of it. But best of all, it isn't going to take a super hero to stop these evil plans, as the main characters who have beef with the universe ARE MORONS!! I'm not much of a reader so I wasn't able to relate it to any other books I've read. For the most part though, I thought this book was hilarious. Some of the crazy ideas and actions and even the thought process behind the characters is just wacky. It just seems like Adams sat around thinking of another way to make this whole story crazier and even more out of whack than ever seen before. The brilliance in his 'irrational' ways make this quite the ride for the reader. If you like crazy little things that collaborate and come together to make one blob of a plot that somehow, to someone, makes sense, this is the amusement you've been looking for. If stupid or crazy humor isn't to your liking, this book isn't recommended. Else, this one is in the cart, right?? Look up there, and click the 'ADD THIS TO SHOPPING CART' button at the top right.

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Summary: No people, your wrong!
Review: I give Douglas Adams only 2 stars for this effort, and I'll tell you why:

Of course we are immediately reminded of our heros Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trilian, and Marvin, the depressed robot - which is cool, but there's no luster surrounding them in this book. I have yet another 20 pages to go with this one, but I'm not expecting anything grand to happen. The lack of effort or failure to create even more abstract views is painfully obvious here. Honestly, I've done nothing but glaze over the pages, and not a single word has caught my eye for more than a millisecond. The only saving grace of this book is where Ford jumps in and out of a gin and tonic - but other than that, this book is a complete bore! The only reason I continue is for clues I might need for the next book in the series, which I allready own.

I'm hoping this next one ain't this bad. The reason Douglas got 2 stars is just praise for the first 2 books, which I can't see myself reviewing anytime soon.

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Summary: epitomizes the series
Review: In my opinion, the third installment of the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy is the most well-rounded of them all. It is perhaps the most outright hilarious of the five novels, and actually has a very entertaining plot. While some elements are connected to previous novels (most notably Slartibartfast and Ford and Arthur's exile on prehistoric Earth), the book can basically stand on its own, something I couldn't necessarily say about the first two.

Agrajag is one of my favorite parts of the entire novel, as is Arthur's learning how to fly. Unfortunately, there is very little of Marvin, which is particularly depressing seeing as how he's only in the last chapter of the fourth book and entirely absent from the fifth). Basically, what we have here is all the zaniness of the earlier books without the aimlessness.

I feel that this book had an ending satisfying enough to complete the "Trilogy," and am curious as to why Douglas continued the series. However, I'm glad he did, because the final two books are my favorite. Still, if you want to capture what I feel is the quintessential essence of Adams, then this is the quintessential chapter in the Hitchhiker's Saga. Enjoy it!

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Summary: WHOOPDIDOO!
Review: This book is so cool and it is one of the best of the trilogy. The only book that is better is the first book of the trilogy. Adams did a good job of using random events to make up a story that is really funny.

The book is about an alien race called the Krikkits. The planet Krikkit maintains itself within a dust cloud. Krikkit's sun is the only visible thing in the sky. You are not able to see any other thing from within the dust cloud. The people of Krikkit had never thought of "What was out there," because they already knew that there wasn't anything.

One day, a spaceship crashes onto Krikkit and the people of Krikkit decide to see whats out there. They find out that what they thought before was wrong as they saw trillions of stars when they exited the dust cloud in one of their homemade spaceships. They saw it and they automatically became homicidal xenophobes. Their new mission was to destroy every other thing in the known universe. While our heroes are the only thing that can stop them.

I give Life, the Universe and Everything *Falls off the Empire State Building and suddenly sees a big floating five and starts to fly* FIVE STARS!!

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Summary: Adams doesn't dissapoint!
Review: This is the second in the Hitchhiker trilogy. Having already the 3rd back in June, this cleared up a couple of burning questions such as 'How did Arthur Dent learn how to fly?". As always, Adams is truly entertaining in his narration, weaving of unlikely events into a cohesive story line, and cheeky turn of a phrase. Now, I'm hunting for the first of the three to properly finish the trilogy in a sequence Adams would appreciate.

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Summary: Douglas Adams does it again
Review: This was the third book in the trilogy, and it lived up to the expectations placed upon it from the previous books. Some of the concepts (Cricket for instance) may be lost on an American audience, but make it funnier for other audiences. A great read.