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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (original 1980; edition 1995)

by Douglas Adams

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhikerâ??s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
â??Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.â?ťâ??The Washington Post Book World

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.
Among Arthurâ??s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhikerâ??s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee whoâ??s gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally).
Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that The Hitchhikerâ??s Guide deleted the term â??Future Perfectâ?ť from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!
â??Whatâ??s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adamsâ??s sardonically silly ey
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Title:The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Authors:Douglas Adams
Info:Del Rey (1995), Mass Market Paperback, 256 pages
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (1980)

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    bmlg: hapless Brit everyman is caught up in world-shaking (and world-ending) events; absurdist humour with a hint of pathos
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Quizá no es tan fresco como el primero, y tiene algún pequeño chiste que se nota que es de los 80, pero mantiene muy bien el tipo y el tono. Además de unas cuantas criticas mordaces a la humanidad y al modo en que hacemos las cosas.

La trama en general me ha gustado, pero se nota con el final que tenia pensado una tercera parte, aunque sea relativamente cerrado, da un poco la sensaciĂłn de final abrupto porque sĂ­.

Aún así me ha gustado bastante y seguiré con la saga. ( )
  Cabask | Mar 27, 2024 |
Amusing, as always ( )
  Linyarai | Mar 6, 2024 |
A sequel to Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe continues to revolve around the life of Arthur Dent, who has found himself in outer space, on The Heart of Gold, being hunted by Vogons, and earth less. Travelling with Ford, Zaphod and Trillian throughout space and time, two questions emerge: firstly, who is the ruler of the known universe? And foremost, where shall we have lunch?
Witty and smart, not to mention, just a bit zany, Adam's combines the improbable with the ordinary. It is an amazing concoction of humour, adventure and philosophy but with a storyline that zig-zags all over the place.
Despite being a fun read, its ideas don't quite live up to Adams' first book in this series. Therefore, I found his ambitions for this novel comparatively underwhelming. There's an exchange between Arthur and Zahpod that sort of sums up my general feeling about the second book
“Look Earthman,” he said angrily, “you’ve got a job to do, right? The Question to the Ultimate Answer, right?”
“What, that thing?” said Arthur. “I thought we’d forgotten about that.”
Martin Freeman narratives the audio book and I must say, it is well worth a listen. Just don't expect to make to much sense of the plot points - it’s the journey not the destination that’s fun here. It's a wacky story, that in the end, leaves our heroes stranded on a pre-historic earth. ( )
  ryantlaferney87 | Dec 8, 2023 |
I like this series of books beyond any reason or justification so my review of this book probably isn't worth much.
I listened to the audiobook version this time, narrated by Martin Freeman. Of course, the fact that it wasn't narrated by Stephen Fry was a huge dissapointment during the first few chapters, but, a few pages in Freeman won me over. He might not have the aristocratic air of Fry, but he had the voice-acting down to perfection. This made the story really come to life for me, more so than the voice-acting of Stephen Fry (whose "Marvin" was pretty bad to be honest). ( )
  bramboomen | Oct 18, 2023 |
Wasn't as good as the first but will continue listening to the series. ( )
  dendorf | Sep 30, 2023 |
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Schwarz, BenjaminTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Serra, LauraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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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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This novel "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" is the second novel of a series of novels.

An earlier (and quite different) version of this story was written by Adams for series 2 of the "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" radio programme, broadcast Christmas 1978 (one episode) and January 1980 (five episodes).

For this October 1980 novel by Adams, episodes from the radio programme were adapted:

The six episodes of radio series 2 are very substantially reworked, re-edited, and reduced for the adaptation.

The final pages of the book are actually an adaptation of the fifth and sixth episodes of radio series 1.
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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhikerâ??s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
â??Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.â?ťâ??The Washington Post Book World

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.
Among Arthurâ??s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhikerâ??s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee whoâ??s gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally).
Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that The Hitchhikerâ??s Guide deleted the term â??Future Perfectâ?ť from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!
â??Whatâ??s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adamsâ??s sardonically silly ey

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