The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

by Douglas Adams

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felt like dragged on, marvin brilliant as always(now always picture alan rickman lol) (

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purplesue | May 27, 2009 |

not as good as the first book but its still a really good laugh and full of the humour that Adams is known for. (

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rincewind1986 | May 24, 2009 |

After loving Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I was mega-disappointed in this book. It took me a long time to get through and I found it plodding. Although I still like the characaters Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect and the ending gambit about Scrabble and the meaning of life is funny, and it bodes well for the third book in the series (which I haven't decided to read yet) overall, it was an OK book at best. (

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EdGoldberg | May 18, 2009 |

The second book in Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe" trilogy, the ironic humor continues and the laughs just keep on coming. I think that there are two kinds of people in the world, people who "get" Adams and people who don't, and I consider myself lucky that I am one of them. : ) (

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bernieblue | May 15, 2009 |

I didn't find it as good as the first one but it was still amusing and kept me interested throughout. I love Adam's humor and the complex ideas that he conceives. (

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shmuffin | Apr 12, 2009 |

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Series (with order)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2)

Canonical Title

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Trillian (Tricia McMillan)

Marvin (the paranoid android)

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Milliways

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Epigraph

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Dedication

To Jane and James

with many thanks

to Geoffrey Perkins for achieving the Improbable

to Paddy Kingsland, Lisa Braun and Alick Hale Munro

for helping him

to John Lloyd for his help with the original Milliways script

to Simon Brett for starting the whole thing off

to the Paul Simon album One Trick Pony which I played

incessantly while writing this book. Five years is far too

long

And with very special thanks to Jacqui Graham for infinite

patience, kindness and food in adversity

First words

The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Disambiguation notice

[Book 2 Only] "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" is the title of the second in a series of novels (as well as the second in a series of radio dramas). The five works in the series are generally referred to as "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" or "The Hitchhiker Trilogy", as is the series of radio dramas. Though there are unabridged audio recordings of these works, the radio dramas are considerably different from the printed works. Eoin Colfer, of "Artemis Fowl" fame, contracted in 2008 to write the next volume of the "Trilogy."

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"DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST."
--The Washington Post Book World
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability--and desperately in search of a place to eat.
Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android who suffers nothing and no one very gladly. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food (literally) speaks for itself.
Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that the Hitchhiker's Guide deleted the term "Future Perfect" from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!
"What's such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adams' sardonically silly eyes."
--Detroit Free Press

From the Paperback edition.

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