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WARNING: This review contains a slight spoiler.

At the end of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams' five-book "trilogy," as in the first two -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and ThThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- Arthur Dent pines due to the destruction of his home planet, Earth.

Only it didn't happen. That's right -- in the eight years that Arthur has spent dodging bullets and lasers and otherwise just barely evading death, going back millions of years to the dawn of time on Earth, bemoaning the lack of a decent cup of tea, and having dozens of adventures, Earth has been just fine. In fact, just six months have elapsed back on planet Earth. His house in the West Country hasn't been flattened to make way for a bypass, nor has the Earth been destroyed by the Vogons to make way for an intergalactic bypass -- even though Arthur is certain that he witnessed both destructions. Despite all of that, here's the earth pretty much as he remembered it, except that everyone he meets remembers a platoon of spaceships hovering overhead at just that time, but chuck it up to mass hysteria.

So was this series a complete sham of the Dallas variety where everything was just a dream? What do you take Douglas Adams for? Some Hollywood hack? Of course not! I won't ruin the book, but, of course, it's more complicated than that -- or as Ford Prefect says in another context, "nothing so simple, nothing anything like so straight-forward" -- although I don't think we'll know the entire story until the fifth book, Mostly Harmless.

While I absolutely adored the first two books in this Adams' five-part "trilogy," the third book simply didn't measure up to Adams' usual standard: It wasn't as funny or engaging or -- I have to admit -- philosophically stimulating. And as So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish tacitly admits, not enough Marvin the Paranoid Android, either. However, Adams has completely redeemed himself here.

What I can reveal is that So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish finds Earthman Arthur Dent, who thought he was literally the last man in the universe, reveling in new love and coming into his own. After three volumes where poor Arthur always ended up the goat in every mishap or misadventure and the butt of every joke, it's nice to see Arthur finally happy and feeling more sane and confident than ever. How nice to see Arthur finally getting answers and the happiness he's been seeking all along.


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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Douglas Adams 9780330491235 Books Reviews

of course awesome!
Rereading the books from my youth. After 25 years, the Hitchhiker series is still funny as ever.
Of all the Hitchhikers books, this is my second favorite. The original book is just superb, but the next three lack some of the humor that marks the first book. Much of the spirit of the first book returns in this, the fifth book of the trilogy. I particularly love the truck driver.
I happen to thoroughly enjoy the Hitchhiker's trilogy in 5 parts - someone else may hate it. Nevertheless, if you are into British humour [and spelling] and a little weird I predict you just might enjoy these books - a lot!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and by the way they are well written - clever.
Different style than the first three in the series, which isn't necessarily bad. The plot more or less hangs together, but there are some parts that don't do much for the plot and I think are just there for filler material. The love relationship was OK, but went a bit juvenile. I wish the ending wouldn't have been so sudden, it was like Adams was just in a hurry to get it over with for some reason. Poor Marvin! Still, it certainly is worth reading and deciding for yourself if it's good or not; it would be a shame to pass it up based on some negative reviews and possibly miss out on something you might really enjoy.
A wonderful, joyously-written love story set in Arthur Dent's absurd universe. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is my favorite book; this one is my second favorite. Douglas Adams provided that he could write with wit, sarcasm, and imagination in his first three books. This book takes one by surprise, because it shows he could also write with great tenderness, gentleness, and love. We fans lost him much too early, and where is the writer to take his place?
Alright. Book four review.
In a few short words, partly due to the shape that my vocabularic expertise is in (which, as you may have concluded by this point, is a very bad shape, and a shape no reasonable school of geometry would ever try to explain), and partly my simple lethargy (which I really was born with, though my family might try and contradict that simple truth)-
Douglas Adams, especially because of 'So long and thanks for all the fish', is an effing genius!
WARNING This review contains a slight spoiler.

At the end of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in Douglas Adams' five-book "trilogy," as in the first two -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and ThThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe -- Arthur Dent pines due to the destruction of his home planet, Earth.

Only it didn't happen. That's right -- in the eight years that Arthur has spent dodging bullets and lasers and otherwise just barely evading death, going back millions of years to the dawn of time on Earth, bemoaning the lack of a decent cup of tea, and having dozens of adventures, Earth has been just fine. In fact, just six months have elapsed back on planet Earth. His house in the West Country hasn't been flattened to make way for a bypass, nor has the Earth been destroyed by the Vogons to make way for an intergalactic bypass -- even though Arthur is certain that he witnessed both destructions. Despite all of that, here's the earth pretty much as he remembered it, except that everyone he meets remembers a platoon of spaceships hovering overhead at just that time, but chuck it up to mass hysteria.

So was this series a complete sham of the Dallas variety where everything was just a dream? What do you take Douglas Adams for? Some Hollywood hack? Of course not! I won't ruin the book, but, of course, it's more complicated than that -- or as Ford Prefect says in another context, "nothing so simple, nothing anything like so straight-forward" -- although I don't think we'll know the entire story until the fifth book, Mostly Harmless.

While I absolutely adored the first two books in this Adams' five-part "trilogy," the third book simply didn't measure up to Adams' usual standard It wasn't as funny or engaging or -- I have to admit -- philosophically stimulating. And as So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish tacitly admits, not enough Marvin the Paranoid Android, either. However, Adams has completely redeemed himself here.

What I can reveal is that So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish finds Earthman Arthur Dent, who thought he was literally the last man in the universe, reveling in new love and coming into his own. After three volumes where poor Arthur always ended up the goat in every mishap or misadventure and the butt of every joke, it's nice to see Arthur finally happy and feeling more sane and confident than ever. How nice to see Arthur finally getting answers and the happiness he's been seeking all along.