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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #3
Life, the Universe and Everything
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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 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 it—and don’t know it!
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 it—and don’t know it!
232 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1,1982
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232 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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Zaphod Beeblebrox
Zaphod Beeblebrox is a fictional character in the various versions of the comic science fiction series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.He is from a planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and is a "semi-half-cousin" of Ford Prefec...
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Arthur Dent
Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.In the radio, LP and television versions of the story, Arthur is played by Simon Jones (...
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Ford Prefect
Ford Prefect is a fictional character in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by the British author Douglas Adams. His role as Arthur Dents friend – and rescuer, when the Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass at t...
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Trillian
Trillian Astra is a fictional character from Douglas Adams series The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. She is most commonly referred to simply as "Trillian", a modification of her birth name, which she adopted because it sounded more "space-li...
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Marvin The Paranoid Android
Marvin is a robot (android) that has been programmed with a "Genuine People Personality" unfortunately he is therefore genuinely depressed.more...
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.
Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.
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The first book made sense and I met my new love: Marvin the Paranoid Android. The second book "The restaurant at the end of the universe", made sense, sorta, kinda, but I can't explain why it made sense. Marvin was depressingly charming and I even had a small bout of depression in his honor. In this third installment, there is less of Marvin and more saving-the-universe type action. I constantly feel like Arthur Dent with all these things and new concepts being thrown at me from the lips of the author (he read the audiobook version) and I don't even know what to think, all I do is react to the story...maybe I should try flying and think about these stories at the crucial moment (this part will make sense if you read the book).
To sum it up, I liked the book and now I want a Marvin plush doll.
To sum it up, I liked the book and now I want a Marvin plush doll.
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Sorry but this was absolute rubbish. I don't even know why I'm apologising to be honest. I do not apologise for this book being a load of crap. There.
I get a bit sick of reading all these 'iconic' books only to find that they are boring, long-winded and to be quite frank, a waste of my valuable reading time.
The first book, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was good fun. It was interesting, to the point and funny. Life, the Universe and Everything was not as good but still it was funny and you knew what was happening. With this drivel I didn't have a clue. The sentences were so long you forgot what it was meant to be explaining by the time you got to the end of it, and I had no idea what the hell was going on half the time. And I hate books like that. It seems that Adams has gone from weak to weak with these books, as if he has tried too hard to be funny and I am actually dreading the fourth book So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish.
I get a bit sick of reading all these 'iconic' books only to find that they are boring, long-winded and to be quite frank, a waste of my valuable reading time.
The first book, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was good fun. It was interesting, to the point and funny. Life, the Universe and Everything was not as good but still it was funny and you knew what was happening. With this drivel I didn't have a clue. The sentences were so long you forgot what it was meant to be explaining by the time you got to the end of it, and I had no idea what the hell was going on half the time. And I hate books like that. It seems that Adams has gone from weak to weak with these books, as if he has tried too hard to be funny and I am actually dreading the fourth book So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish.
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Wow! Such a long time since I read this. While I probably didn't appreciate it as much this time as my teenage mind did, there were still some giggle & snort moments. "Eddies in the space-time continuum" "And this is his sofa, is it?" If anyone needed a good insulting, it's the completely befuddled Arthur. What? Destruction of the universe averted for the time being.
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It pains me to give DNA less than 5 stars, but this should be seen purely as a reflection on the audio version.
As mentioned in the previous review (RATEOTU), Martin Freeman has a nasty habit of droning along between dialogue in the manner of Marvin; but even taking the rather good dialogue into account, he just ain't Stephen Fry.
Story 5, production 4.
As mentioned in the previous review (RATEOTU), Martin Freeman has a nasty habit of droning along between dialogue in the manner of Marvin; but even taking the rather good dialogue into account, he just ain't Stephen Fry.
Story 5, production 4.
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“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”
I am not really sure what happened here but I came from loving the first two entries but this one just did not work the same way for me. It's still filled with wacky adventures and clever dialogue but while reading it I realized my enjoyment of it was a lot lower that I was expecting.
I think the formula Adams was following started showing cracks for me because the entire story seems to be built only to deliver funny lines while being completely nonsensical in every other conceivable way and at one point I just felt like I needed a bigger sense of direction and mission. Perhaps I was just at a different place when I was going through this novel.
I am not really sure what happened here but I came from loving the first two entries but this one just did not work the same way for me. It's still filled with wacky adventures and clever dialogue but while reading it I realized my enjoyment of it was a lot lower that I was expecting.
I think the formula Adams was following started showing cracks for me because the entire story seems to be built only to deliver funny lines while being completely nonsensical in every other conceivable way and at one point I just felt like I needed a bigger sense of direction and mission. Perhaps I was just at a different place when I was going through this novel.
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تا اون وسطای داستان، این جلد رو ضعیف تر از جلد اول و دوم میدونستم، اما از نیمه یهو اوج گرفت و هیجان انگیز شد. مثل جلدهای قبل.
خلاصه این که من خیلی دوسش دارم. خیلی باحاله. مشتاقانه میریم واسه جلد چهارم.
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