Still funny, still absurd, still pretty deep really, but Adams was definitly starting to lose some of the threads here. This is the first one where I found myself asking, "wait, what?". There are some pretty decent time jumps between chapters that will leave eyebrows waggling in confusion. But, there ARE still some really great pieces, I'm particularly fond of bistro math.

Great Sci fi from a bygone era that really stands the test of time. Written before the internet and computers took off.

I didn't really enjoy this book. There's a sense of aimlessness to it that makes it hard to concentrate.

"Evren tedirgin edici büyüklükte bir yerdir ve pek çok kişi sakin bir hayat uğruna bu gerçeği görmezden gelmeye meyillidir."

İlk kitaplar kadar iyi değil. Seriye devam eder miyim bilmiyorum...

Ok I have no idea why I love these books so much, but here we are. They are such wildly bizarre fun!

I love how the author frequently harkens back to plot points and gags from earlier in the book or series, without those jokes feeling overdone or stale.

I'm not sure there has ever been a point to any of this, but this one seemed to lose any sign of cohesive narration toward the end. Again, it ended abruptly & on a cliff hanger. Still kind of funny at odd moments, but so pointless as to be tiring. I thought I'd try one more & queued it up, but then found some better books at the library. I think I've spent enough time on this series. I now get many of the references FWIW. Ugh. Next I'll be watching football or some other ridiculous sport that spends millions of dollars moving a ball around a field in an effort to speak to & understand those around me. Hah! No, just kidding. There are far too many better things to do.

2.5/5 What did I just read??? lol the most random books of all time XD This book sucks for story but it is pretty funny and really thinks outside the box. It's more like a stand up comedy which each chapter is a different theme lol it would be a good bathroom read XD

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یه کم سمی تر از اون بود ک الان چیزی بگم.
اما اولین بار توی الیس در سرزمین عجایب چنین مدل شر و ور گویی ای دیدم. اونجا دائم میگفتی‌ این مشکل منه ک نمیفهممتون.
ولی اینجا حتی فکر نمیکردی ک نمیفهمیشون، چون دقیقن داشتی میفهمیدی، تک تک شر و ورا مثه حقیقت علمی ای که هر روز میبینی برات مسجله.
همون قد ک میدونی جاذبه رو زمین امر قطعیه، مطمئنی که ارتور دنت تونست پرواز کنه چون یادش اومد یه بطری شراب اعلا کنار روغن زیتونای یونانیش داره.
که کریکت حاصل حافظه ناخوداگاه انگلیسیا از خونین ترین جنگ کهکشانه.
و اینکه افسردگی یه ربات خسته میتونه باعث شه همه نجات پیدا کنن و دقیقن به خاطر همین همه تنهاش بذارن.
در نهایت هیچ چیز به اندازه افسردگی ابد العمر ماروین واقعی نیست.
به جز جاودانگی واوباگر بی نهایت طولانی شده که ارتور دنت اینقدر بخت برگشته است که دوبار شاهد توهیناش باشه.

لینک طاقچه

The universe is a joke.

Even before I was shown the meaning of life in a dream at 17 (then promptly forgot it because I thought I smelled pancakes), I knew this to be true--and yet, I have always felt a need to search for the truth, that nebulous, ill-treated creature. Adams has always been, to me, to be a welcome companion in that journey.

Between the search for meaning and the recognition that it's all a joke in poor taste lies Douglas Adams, and, luckily for us, he doesn't seem to mind if you lie there with him. He's a tall guy, but he'll make room.

For all his crazed unpredictability, Adams is a powerful rationalist. His humor comes from his attempts to really think through all the things we take for granted. It turns out it takes little more than a moment's questioning to burst our preconceptions at the seams, yet rarely does this stop us from treating the most ludicrous things as if they were perfectly reasonable.

It is no surprise that famed atheist Richard Dawkins found a friend and ally in Adams. What is surprising is that people often fail to see the rather consistent and reasonable philosophy laid out by Adams' quips and absurdities. His approach is much more personable (and less embittered) than Dawkins', which is why I think of Adams as a better face for rational materialism (which is a polite was of saying 'atheism').

Reading his books, it's not hard to see that Dawkins is tired of arguing with uninformed idiots who can't even recognize when a point has actually been made. Adams' humanism, however, stretched much further than the contention between those who believe, and those who don't.

We see it from his protagonists, who are not elitist intellectuals--they're not even especially bright--but damn it, they're trying. By showing a universe that makes no sense and having his characters constantly question it, Adams is subtly hinting that this is the natural human state, and the fact that we laugh and sympathize shows that it must be true.

It's all a joke, it's all ridiculous. The absurdists might find this depressing, but they're just a bunch of narcissists, anyhow. Demnading the world make sense and give you purpose is rather self centered when it already contains toasted paninis, attractive people in bathing suits, and Euler's Identity. I say let's sit down at the bar with the rabbi, the priest, and the frog and try to get a song going. Or at least recognize that it's okay to laugh at ourselves now and again. It's not the end of the world.

It's just is a joke, but some of us are in on it.

Hab leider des Öfteren den Faden und die Lust am Weiterlesen verloren. Der vorherigen Bücher gefallen mir bis jetzt besser.

Çok iyi gitmiyor mu ya, evet çok iyi gidiyor. Gelsin devamı...

The 3rd book of The Hitchhiker's Guide series was nowhere close to being as good as the first two books were for me.
It altogether lost its humor. The characters got separated, so the fun group dynamics were gone. Most of the time I was reading, I felt confused about what is going on. Too many things to keep track of, which would not have been the problem if those things were at all interesting to follow, and these just weren’t.
Oh, and since I know absolutely nothing about cricket, I definitely missed a lot of references there.
The only thing I really loved was Agrajag, with his incredible unfortunate fate and his Cathedral of Hate painted in "Infra Dead" and "Ultra Violent".
But as a whole, this book actually made me think about whether to continue with the series at all.