Rating: Summary: An unworthy end for a grat series. Review: I'm bitterly disappointed.Drearily dismal,dull,depressingly despairing doomed drivel!It do deserves damnatiomemoriae!
Rating: Summary: douglas adams Review: is one of my favorite authors and he has done it again in this book. the "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" saga is truly his epic. if you have read the books in the "trilogy" you can pick up at any point in any book. even people i know who can't re-read books, can read his books over and over. they are exceedingly funny and very easy reading. you do need to be able to laugh at british humor, though.
Rating: Summary: A not-so-fond farewell to a classic series Review: The Hitchhiker's "Trilogy" (as Adams wryly likes to put it) comes to an end in this fifth installment in the adventures of earthman Arthur Dent. Although not as thin on laughs as its predecessor, "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish," this book doesn't have the nonstop hilarity that made Adams a bestselling author. My favorite gag in the book centered on the Grebulons, a group of aliens that illustrates the evils of excessive television viewing. Still, I felt that the book mostly limped along, finally reaching a dreary end. I would have expected a series that has given readers so many laughs over the years to have either a funny or a poignant conclusion, but this tale has neither. It felt as though Adams was too tired of writing about his band of interstellar hitchhikers to give them the denouement that they deserved.
Rating: Summary: note to A Reader from California: Review: Three words: welcome to existentialism. :-) As with the rest of the series, in fact....A clever and surprising book, but it has more in common with Adams' "Dirk Gently" books than with the rest of the "Hitchiker's" series. Read the one with your brain on, and don't think for a second that you'll be able to guess what happens next.
Rating: Summary: Just as you said "You're Welcome"... Review: There is another big last joke besides God's Final Message to His Creation. It's in Mostly Harmless. About all I can say about it is that you must read the other four books first. Then read through this final volume for a joke that may have you laughing for 10 minutes solid. However, if you read this first and then go through the rest (why anyone would do that, I don't know), the joke will be a completely pointless a-ha as you go through the first four books of the trilogy.
Rating: Summary: Mr. Adams, I am disappointed! Review: What happened? The book was superb all of the way through. I read this book in one day and loved every minute, until the end that is. Everyone dies! What is going on here? All the great characters we have come to know and love are just finished off. It saddens me greatly that Douglas Adams has decided to quit writing Hitchhikers' Guide books. This kind of thing is terrible to do to science fiction fans. Just imagine if Gene Roddenberry had decided to say, "Forget it!" in the middle of his Star Trek career. Is this any way to treat your fans?
Rating: Summary: Mostly Harmless...to the end. Review: Well I just finished this book and must say that, though I caught myself laughing aloud many times (thanks to Adams satiristic writing abilities), this book had only two things going for it...1)the closure that we avid Hitchhikers fans wanted and b) Adams satiristic writting abilities. This book is reminisent of the first books in its hummor but gets a liittle bogged down in the storyline, aside from that there is a totaly new way to look - oh just read the book for all I bloody well care, and decide for yourself!
Rating: Summary: Over and Out Review: Adams certainly didn't need any more money or acclaim. He wanted the series put to rest, permanently, and that's what he did. Any questions?
Rating: Summary: I Liked It Better Than The Last Two Review: I made the mistake of reading other people's online reviews for this book after I had bought it but before I started reading it. I almost put it aside for fear that it would be as disappointing as so many readers have said it is. However, I have to disagree. This is a pretty darn good book. I LOVED the first two books in the series and really think that Adams should have just stopped there. The third and fourth books were, in my humble opinion, alright but not nearly as good. The whole thing with cricket in the third book just got on my nerves and the fourth book just didn't bring the closure that I craved. I thought that this book came much closer to to the flavor of the first two books and I personally did find the closure to the story in this book that I longed for. Recommended by me....as if you care.
Rating: Summary: Mortly Harmless not so harmless after all. Review: After reading all the reviews of other people and reading the book I think that some of you might have a little misjudged the book. It does have its' problems such as not as many characters and I also noticed that the book is not as adventurous as some of the others. If you're not a real fan of these boooks you probably will be better off not buying Mortly Harmless but if you're the kind of person that likes The hitchhiker's books then i would strongly recommend to read this one also. It's plot can sometimes be lost but it still is fun to read.
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