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Loading... Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, No. 3) (original 1982; edition 1982)by Douglas Adams (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Life, the Universe and Everything isn't as good as the first two books in the series, but it's still fun. ( ) I hate to admit this but this series is just not that great. The first book is brilliant, the second is entertain, and well, I have to wonder if Adams was running out of steam when he wrote this. He is working with uninspired ideas and his inability to write characters as anything but vehicles for punchlines and guttural confusions is trying to say the least. There's just not much of a point of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy being a series other than each entry is a weaker form of satire than the last. Oh, well. At least Martin Freeman's narration made this somewhat enjoyable. I'd say just read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and stop there.
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." Is contained inThe More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide by Douglas Adams (indirect) And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer (indirect) Has the adaptationIs abridged inDistinctions
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HTML:Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.Chicago Tribune The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their headsso 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 galaxy; 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 itand dont know it! Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading.Arizona Daily Star. No library descriptions found.
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