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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

by Douglas Adams

Series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2)

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Info:	Del Rey (2005), Paperback, 256 pages
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Another romp through the universe following the adventures (or misadventures) of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Tricia McMillan (Trillian), and Marvin the Paranoid Android. This book is fast-paced, imaginative, and humorous. I’d definitely recommend, although you will need to read the first book in this series beforehand. (

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sweetiegherkin | Dec 28, 2009 |

Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are back, having narrowly escaped the planet Magrathea and a fate worse than death. Of course, in another twist of fate, they find themselves aboard a stolen Improbability Drive ship with Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian McMillian, and Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Hilarious and thought-provoking. (

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mrsdwilliams | Dec 17, 2009 |

My favorite book in the "trilogy." Laugh out loud hilarious. I couldn't put it down. (

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gaialover2 | Dec 14, 2009 |

Another wonderfully funny, meandering book, tripping hapazardly around the galaxy yet somehow managing to tie up most of the plot points. While still a lovely book, I did feel that is dragged more them a little by the end, though there were still nice bits, you can't help but feeling the book could end about 30 pages earlier and use very little. (

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TPauSilver | Dec 1, 2009 |

Clever and funny but does not stand alone successfully. (

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TheoClarke | Oct 25, 2009 |

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2)

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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Tricia "Trillian" 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

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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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[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

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