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| Title | : | Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #5) |
| Author | : | Douglas Adams |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | October 19th 1993 by Del Rey (first published October 12th 1992) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Humor. Fantasy |
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Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.98 | 102119 Users | 2411 Reviews
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It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit–and immediately all hell breaks loose.Hell takes a number of forms: there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one.
Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?
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| Original Title: | Mostly Harmless |
| ISBN: | 0345379330 (ISBN13: 9780345379337) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #5 |
| Characters: | Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Thrashbarg, Random Frequent Flyer Dent |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 102119 Users | 2411 ReviewsEvaluate About Books Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #5)
3.5 starsMuch better than the last book, there was a lot more action, space adventure and silly humour. I loved Arthur and the whole sandwich making thing he had going on, it was hilarious, his interactions with Random were quite funny too. I didn't like Ford all that much though, his parts dragged and he just wasn't very entertaining.The ending was a tad depressing with what happened to all the Earths. I guess it was better to end in that way because then the gang would forever travel inLet me just say that 'Mostly Harmless' totally shocked me out of my chair.I read the first four books and pretty much loved the humor, storytelling and not to mention the characters.Some new characters are made in 'Mostly Harmless', and if I had to choose a favorite new character, it would be Random. Random as in her name IS LITERALLY RANDOM.The irony of the whole story made me really, really excited. The whole tale goes in a roundabout of time and space and ends up where we started.The ending
Brilliant! I dont know if I was just into the right mood or what, but this last book of The Hitchhikers Guide series made me laugh so much. It was hilarious! The ending was perhaps too abrupt for me, and Im still not sure if I liked it or not, so I was about to give 4 stars. But all the funny dialogues and situations throughout the book made definitely the 5 stars worth. Im sure I will reread the whole series sometime, they just put me in such a good mood. I love the so British, witty humor of
Randal: Which did you like better? Jedi or The Empire Strikes Back?Dante: Empire.Randal: Blasphemy!Dante: Empire had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader's his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that's what life is, a series of down endings. All Jedi had was a bunch of Muppets.
Hitchhiker's, volume 5.There are some good lines in this, but I can't help feeling it would have been better if Adams had left it unwritten, or at least unpublished. It is very disjointed, with Ford, Arthur and Trillian mostly in separate stories. It starts in what would be a parallel universe - if such things existed, which they don't, because "it makes as much sense as the sea being parallel". "If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for
(mild spoilers ahead)It's terribly amusing that the majority of reviewers have tossed this fifth part to the trilogy aside, banished it from their mental schemata of the series so as to acknowledge only that which ends well. I think it says a lot about the readership that they took in the entirety of the first four books without picking up on the melancholy and nihilistic subtext to Adams' writing. I mean, the first book ends with the discovery that the meaning of life is 42.... how much clearer
Douglas Adams finishes off the series with a flourish.
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