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Summary: unregrettably unsatisfiable
Review: For those of you wondering, Adams' method of writing is this: take the most absurd and irreverend random notions as well as strange stories that lead nowhere and throw them together with oddjob plots that makes you wonder what on earth the point of this whole trip was in the first place, vomit them forth with obnoxious cynical insanity and refuse to apologize along the way. The meaning of life is 42. Flying is just the art of throwing yourself at the ground and missing. The most efficient form of fuel in the universe is the illogic contained within The mathematics of an Italian restaurant. Huh? Exactly. This is the third book in the five part Hitchhikers' "trilogy", and anyone who read the first two books will notice a big difference between this book and those. The difference is, more or less, the first two books didn't have much of a plot, and were just the random exploits of a confused Englishman hitchiking through the galaxy. This one actually attempts to have a plot, which is its main downfall. But dont let that stand in your way: all of the hitchhiker books are about unabashed insanity, and the author makes no quams about it. So if your worried that it doesn't make sense, its not supposed to. The universe is, after all, infinitely improbable.
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Summary: A Good Science Fiction/Comedy book
Review: This is a very good book but it did not live up to the standards of the two that came before it. It is a good way to end an excellent series.
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Summary: Ford's description of time on prehistoric earth=hilarious
Review: For me, the most memorable of all the components in The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As with everything in the series I often had to remind myself that the plot doesn't have to make sense. Once I got past the foolishness of it all I realized that there were moments of warped verasimilitude after all if only I'd look.But I didn't look. I read it for the scenes of mindless humor instead. That's the way I think it should be read. I will never forget Ford thinking that he is a lemon and entertaining himself by jumping in and out of a lake that thinks it is a gin and tonic. (At least Ford thinks the lake thinks it is.) Or when Arthur realizes in horror during his encounter with Agrahjag that he still has a rabbit bone in his beard (the bone being a remnant of one of Agrahjag's past reincarnations).
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Summary: Laugh out loud funny!
Review: Although the plot has it's down sides, you really don't even notice it compared to the humor.The plain dumbness makes the whole book hysterical.
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Summary: Why!...
Review: This is perhaps the most offbeat and uneven book in the trilogy. The reason is simple: the book has a definite plot. Usually Adams goes off on tangents which is frenetic and wondeful, but this time, he tries to make his feckless and useless characters actually DO something, even when it's painfully obvious they just don't want too. It's a good thing the plot is frenetic and wonderful anyway. It definitely would not have worked on Dr. Who, which it was originally written for, and it comes dangerously close to not working here. You can see Adams going off on tangents in the storyline but forcing his characters always to return to the plot. Much of this is not self-evident in the text and the whole book merely comes off as being improbably weird, so it's a very good book, anyway.
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Summary: Ho hum...
Review: This wasn't exactly the best book in the series. Though it contains perhaps the best scene in the entire trilogy (remember Agrahjag?) the humor is weak and hard to follw, the scenes with Zaphod and Trillian are inferior, and the ending is much too wierd. Arthur comes across best in this one, but it ends once again with the gang dropping him off. Don't try it. It's not healthy.
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Summary: The best plot of the 'trilogy'
Review: If you ask me (yes, I realize you're not asking me) every book in the Hitchhikers 'trilogy' is damn perfect, but this has the best plot of the five. Two of the best comedic scenes in the series occurr in this one; Arthur learning to fly, and Arthur defeating Thor. READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: HORRIBLE
Review: This book was terrible, absolutly terrible, the humor was bad, the story very boring. The first book was good but it goes down hill fast after that.
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Summary: A hilarious satire for the open-minded reader.
Review: With the exception of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" this is, in my opinion, Adams' most talented work. The story is amazing, but definitely not for skeptical readers. To fully appreciate his books you should not be asking questions such as "What does an italian restaurant have to do with mathematics?" In short: a great book for those who do not think long and hard about every event in the tale.
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Summary: something lacking
Review: Perhaps it was the fact that there was a real plot to this story: trying to save the universe from a bunch of singing idiots. Or maybe, after writing the first two Douglas Adams simply went dry. The highlight of this book is Arthur learning to fly.
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