حس تمام کردن مجموعه‌ها خیلی خوبه، مجموعه ناتمام واقعاً به آدم حس بدی میده، راهنمای کهکشان هم با تمام پستی و بلندی‌ها تمام شد، در ابتدا اثری منحصربفرد بود، هیچ تکراری نداشت و شوخی‌های جذابی داشت، در هر صورت نتونست روند خوب جلد اولو ادامه بده منتها به صورت کلی یکی از درخشان‌ترین طنز‌های پست مدرنی بود که به عمرم خونده بودم، جلد پنجم هم مقداری خوب بود و یادآور خاطرات خوب جلد اول و دوم شد.

I can't highlight all the passages that I like in this book because I would end up highlighting the entire book. I enjoy slipping things in that are quotes from any of the Hitchhikker's guide books into conversations with people just because it makes me smile.
There is just so much wit to choose from.

A couple good ones from Mostly Harmless:

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

2005 will always be the year in which, personally I recognised that Douglas Adams was not only not my cup of tea, he wasn't my digestive biscuit, sugar lump or afternoon nap. His infantile rudimentary mid 20th century humour just doesn't work for me on any level... I have no doubt he strikes a chord with many readers around the world, but alas not I.
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My one good deed, is that I stuck with the series and gave it a chance to melt my cold dark heart.. which it obviously didn't. 3 out of 12.

No one warned me about that ending! I had to read it twice to really understand what happened. This book is definitely better than the last one but I don't think it gets good until about half way through. The later half was very reminiscent of the first book and that was enough for me to bump it to a 4.

At the end of this series I'm just so glad to be done it. There were up and DOWNs that I didn't expect. I'm happy I read them all but I don't think I would reread anything of them others than the first two.

n  ""Tricia! Where the haemorrhaging fuck are you?"n I found this books slowly went downhill, dont get me wrong I liked them and loved the series as a whole but felt Douglas Adams never really meant to right more than one, maybe two of these books and just lost his was. It was wrapped up very neatly, well in my opinion, and I enjoyed it more than some entries but it just never had that effortless charm of the first...3

Ne yazık ki her güzel şey gibi bu da bitti, NEDEN BİTTİ!?

Sadly, the five-part Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy” ends not with a bang, but a whimper. With four storylines — displaced earthman Arthur Dent, reckless Hitchhiker’s Guide correspondent Ford Prefect; Trillian, the earth woman once named Tricia McMillan who dumped Arthur at a party to go into space with Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Tricia McMillan in a parallel universe where she stayed on earth — Mostly Harmless reads like a frenzied ride on the bumper cars, with storylines beginning and starting almost at random.

In addition, Arthur Dent returns to his whiny and mostly dazed persona that made him insufferable in Life, the Universe and Everything, and while all four storylines eventually converge, the denouement simply isn’t that satisfying. Take my advice: Stop after the fourth book, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and end on a high note.

Its years since I read the first four volumes of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and really enjoyed it. Perhaps my taste has changed or I can't get into the 'mood' but I really didn't enjoy this book. It just seemed to be a 'clever' messa round with words and the sort of adolescent fantasies of the universe that kids who were stoned and listening to Pink Floyd tended to come up with. Like a lot of things, it was more fun to have lived it than to read about it.

There were a couple of good sentences that made me pause and think and that boosted up the rating, but only to a two-star.

“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”


This was not the ending I was hoping for.
But since we have parallel universes; is this truly the end?

I finally read them all! I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when I was younger but never read more than the first book.

I enjoy the humor and sarcasm and the unexpectedly outrages things that can happen quite out of the blue. The wacky relationship between Arthur and Ford is also one of the reasons that kept me reading on.

This was an epic journey and I will readily go on it again, and again, and again.

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.

For some reason this fifth volume is not included in most collection of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I've only realised this recently.

As with most of Adams' book, I finished the book with the feeling that I only sort of know what was going on and wasn't really sure what the point of it was but I had so much fun along the way that I didn't really care. This edition sees a new guide being created which works across all the dimensions. Queue chaos. Arthur Dent spends a great deal of time being a sandwich maker and loves it but my favourite part of the book was a space ship which got confused and lost of all it's inhabitants minds. An alien race who have no idea what there purpose was so guess is very funny.

The ending of this one is really odd, it just sort of ends. It almost feels like it could have continued for a little longer and Adams had planned to write a sixth book but died before he had chance. It's a shame as there just feels like there is more to tell.

All in all though, a brilliant addition to the trilogy.

A great end, though I'm sad it's over.