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Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)

by Douglas Adams

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Series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (3)

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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don't know it!… (more)
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Demorei UM ANO pra ler isso. QUE LIVRO CHATO DOS INFERNOS!!!
Eu respeito demais Douglas Adams. Gosto MUITO do autor, adoro a maioria das coisas que li dele. Mas esse terceiro livro da série do Mochileiro das Galáxias... aff... que chatice!!!

http://www.planocritico.com/critica-a-vida-o-universo-e-tudo-mais-de-douglas-ada... ( )
  lulusantiago | Mar 11, 2023 |
I am currently rereading the series this summer. ( )
  lynnbyrdcpa | Feb 18, 2023 |
Remains the most definitive work ever written on the game of cricket. ( )
  Kavinay | Jan 2, 2023 |
Love Adams’ use of the English language, even if I don’t particularly like cricket. ( )
  vdt_melbourne | Dec 28, 2022 |


Brilliant as usual. Halfway through the book, I was kind of disappointed that the plot was not as engaging as it was in the first two Hitchhiker's Guide books - BUT! It got really engrossing in the last third part of it. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 stars because when compared to the first two books, it's LESS exciting, while compared to other books (not by Douglas Adams) it definitely deserves a 5.

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Adams delights in cosmic pratfalls, and if he sometimes loses track of his narrative, he more than makes up for it by confirming what many have suspected all along: "He learned to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries."
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Douglas Adams—primary authorall editionscalculated
Burton, JonathanIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Canter, JonIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Cross, PeterCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Freeman, MartinNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Irineu da Costa, CarlosTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Saarikivi, JukkaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Scutt, DavidCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Serra, LauraTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Thole, KarelCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Canonical title
Life, the Universe and Everything
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Original publication date
1982-08-01
People/Characters
Arthur Dent
Ford Prefect
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Slartibartfast
Tricia "Trillian" McMillan
Important places
Krikkit
Betelgeuse
Pre-historic Earth
Squornshelous Zeta
The Heart of Gold (spaceship)
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Related movies
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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1982)
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The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was.
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[Book 3 Only] "Life, the Universe and Everything" is the title of the third in a series of novels (as well as the third in a series of radio dramas). All 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, wrote the sixth volume of the "Trilogy," And Another Thing ... (2009).
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Canonical DDC/MDS
823.914
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PR6051.D3352
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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox. How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don't know it!
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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads–so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.

They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galazy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.

How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert “universal” Armageddon and save life as we know it–and don’t know it!
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Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001.
Γυρίστε το γαλαξία με ωτοστόπ III : Η ζωή, το σύμπαν και τα πάντα / Douglas Adams · μετάφραση Δημήτρης Αρβανίτης. - 1η έκδ. - Αθήνα : Ars Longa, 1989. - 180σ. · 21.8x11.8εκ. - (Γυρίστε τον Γαλαξία με Ωτοστόπ · 3)
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Γλώσσα πρωτοτύπου: αγγλικά
Τίτλος πρωτοτύπου: Life, the Universe and Everything, 1982
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