واقعاً نمی‌دونم چرا شروعش کردم وقتی هیچ امیدی به ادامه‌ش نداشتم:))
البته این جلد رو که اصلاً ۲۰ صفحه هم نخوندم ولی توی همون صفحات اول احساس می‌کردم می‌تونه جالب باشه.

اما نه، این مجموعه برای من نیست.
کاش می‌تونستم دوستش داشته باشم، کاش یه معنا و مفهومی برام داشت.
شاید بعداً؟ شاید دوباره بیام سراغش و اون موقع خوشم بیاد؟:)
الان خیلی براش بی‌حوصله‌م...

تو رو به خیر و ما رو به سلامت.
خداحافظ مارتین، آرتور، فورد، تریلیان و زاپود که من آخرشم نفهمیدم کدومتون مرده یا زن:)

Oproti minulým dílům slabší, příliš chaotické.
Ale humor tam je :)
3/5*

Recenze na blogu: https://marky-books.blogspot.com/2021...

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 could not relate more to any other fictional character than to that alien guy going around the universe and insulting everyone on his way. This looks quite of an idea to me... Now, to the opinion.

I have to admit that I have misunderstood the series. It was silly of me to think that the series are going to follow an interwoven adventure and I was wrong: each book has its own. Even though I would have wished for more of an integrated storyline, I cannot blame the author for expanding it into multiple dimensions.

This third instalment in the series got me in strange ways. Sometimes it made me silently scream cut it out! at obviously bleak passages, and sometimes it made me go back and snicker at those hilarious punchlines again.

Either way, I decided not to binge read the series but leave the remaining parts for the time of my aroused interest.

n  Life, the Universe and Everythingn was everywhere. All over life. All over the universe. And all over my span of consciousness. My poor little Earth brain was inadequate for this book! *Spontaneously laughs like a mad hatter and then abruptly stops.* I wasn't over the moon for this one. I've read some reviews about the previous two books in the series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and some readers said they were weird. I didn't find them weird but this one I did. It was a little too, too much. Too much what? Too much Douglas Adams brain-ish-ness. (Silly book. I can make up silly words.) I have no idea what the plot was. What was the point? I chuckled a few times. But most of the time I felt like, "Wait! What? So... yeah no.

2 stars. Douglas Adams sci-fi fiction is still brilliantly imaginative. But this one stayed in its technicolor space ship and flew directly over my head and right on light years away to the planet, Yeah Girl I Got You Confused located in Sector GH7W of the Brainfart Galaxy.
I will go ahead and try the next book.

Side bar: I hope this was just a fluke that I didn't care for this one book in the series. I usually never finish any series because they tend to fall off after a while but I'd like to finish this one.

As always this parody of life made me smile and realise that life and the universe are basically a large joke. every time that i read this trilogy of 6, i feel better about life and how i am handling my placement in it.

It starts off a little slow but don’t worry it only gets better. Still weird. Still love it. Great satire.

I don't feel that bad for rubbishing and One Starring each book in this series as I read it, because ultimately it's how I feel about it - indeed as I read each book I am continually amazed at the popularity of this series; it's just such piss poor comedy and trite storytelling, and to top it all off it's all kind of infantile. 1 out of 12, yep... 1 out of 12!

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.

A marked improvement over book 2. I laughed out loud so many times

'From the studios on the unstable fourth moon of Vega four; it's The Ua show!' The announcer shouted as Ua emerged from behind the curtain to the applause of her live audience.
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'Thank you, thank you.' She called to her adoring fans. 'And I must say I love you all. Even the reptiloids. Oh what am I saying; especially the reptiloids.' Light laughter followed.
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'Today we have with us the stars of Life, the Universe and Everything.' She called out while making a horizontal slash through the air; a pantomimed underline to indicate that she referenced the popular humor novel and not all of creation. Please welcome Wowbagger and Agrajag!'
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The lights behind her snapped on to reveal a comically mismatched pair of aliens. The first was tall, gray and sat with perfect posture while the other was a mottled bat-like lump of a humanoid with hideous teeth and scraggly hair; he looked like a commercial personification of acne or athlete’s foot fungus. The crowd cheered as Ua made her way to a seat facing her guests. 'Welcome to the show.' She said.
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'Hhhhhrrraaaaahhhh!' The bat-creature named Agrajag screeched by way of greeting. Wowbagger merely nodded in her direction.
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Some light chatting followed, with Ua expending serious effort to focus Agrajag and engage Wowbagger. Finally, after five minutes of talk about the weather, current events and 'how ya doin' pleasantries with little to show, Ua went to her trump card; 'Mr. Wowbagger.' She began “you're legendary for your quest to insult the universe; who doesn't still laugh when they hear 'knee-biter'” She turned to the audience, who applauded.
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'So we've asked you to come with a few insults prepared. Of course we know that you like to do this alphabetically, but we're hoping you'll make an exception in this case.'
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The edges of Wowbagger's thin lips turned upward slightly. 'Very well.' He said.
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'You can start with me.' Ua said and shot the audience a knowing look.
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'You...' Wowbagger began. A pause ripe with anticipation filled the studio. 'Ua Clarriska Utharion?'
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'Yes?' She said with a devious smile.
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'You are a clod, Ua. A shiftless weasel-punter.' Ua chortled The audience erupted in laughter. Wowbagger's mouth continued to turn upward.
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After a full minute of mirth, Ua wiped a tear from her eye and motioned for silence. 'I'm afraid it's not all fun and games on the show today.' She said and turned to Agrajag. 'Our other guest has something of a deeply sad story to tell; I understand you've recently suffered quite a tragedy.'
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'Oh I have.' Moaned Agrajag. Who proceeded to launch into a tale about how he had been murdered by Arthur Dent over 50 times and how his plan for revenge had been foiled. The audience knew the tale and most of them found it very funny. But to see Agrajag in person and so obviously miserable they all sat quiet and attentive.
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'And not only did I not kill Arthur Dent, but he pulled his cruelest trick yet. You see, this is my last life and had he killed this life, I would have been a failure but at least I could have rested. But he robbed that from me as well; smashing my poor body and entombing me in a collapsed cave. It's a cursed miracle that I survived in any state. I can't give up when revenge is still possible, but every waking moment is pain and hopelessness.'
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'Agrajag.' Wowbagger intoned when Agrajag's story concluded.
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'Yes?'
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'Trentorz Ignatious Agrajag?'
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'Well, yes, that's my full name. No wait-'
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'You're a dirt bag Agrajag. A total flipping dolt.' The audience went berserk; laughing and applauding. Wowbagger beamed and raised his arms in accepted adulation. Ua shot a glance at Agrajag to see the small monster's shoulders slumped and his face a mangled grimace. She silenced the audience and changed the subject.
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'And what about the author; Douglas Adams?' She asked 'how do you feel about how he wrote you.'
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Agragag's eyes perked up. 'Adams...' he said quietly. 'This is his fault; he wrote everything that happened to me. That's why I've never been able to take revenge...' Agragag trailed off as he got lost in his twisted labyrinth of a mind.
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'Douglas Adams is... Adams is a cretin. A jerktastic cretin.' Wowbagger turned to the audience for further praise. But they appeared dubious; the level of weird had become too much for them.
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Ua sensed the awkward situation and took a page from primary school teachers everywhere; she showed a video. In this case, a holovideo featuring imagery from the novel and a pair of unruly mobs shaking their fists at one another. The video was narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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'In the 1980s' Freeman began “Life, the Universe and Everything was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Critics pointed to the novel's scatter-shot plotting, rehashed jokes and an odd obsession with cricket, a sport few outside England find quaint or amusing, as their reasons for ranking Life, the Universe and Everything below the previous books in the 'Hitchhiker' series. More positive critics defended the novel by pointing out that the writing remained very clever and there are some really classic bits in there, including a planet-raiding mobile party and instruction on how to fly, and furthermore that the divide between the negative and positive critics really was in their favor. The detractors countered this last point; arguing that many of them died of aneurysms while reading the interminable chapters about restaurant-based propulsion or any part where Ford Prefect defined himself as a pointless wanker (which was constantly.) The defenders re-countered by stating that the untimely death of opponents is a well-established means of gaining the upper hand in any argument.'
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The ensuing war killed billions and devastated the literary arm of the galaxy. With no victor in sight, the two sides agreed to peace talks. These talks were contentions, leading to billions of additional deaths, but would produce a treaty declaring Life, the Universe and Everything 'a mixed bag.'”
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Just then a crash shook the studio. And suddenly an aqua-colored escape pod smashed through the ceiling and came hurtling toward the stage. Agrajag, who had just formulated a new scheme for revenge, had just enough time to glance up and say 'oh no, not again' before the capsule obliterated his final life. The crowd was stunned; apart from the total annihilation of Agrajag and his chair there was very little damage.
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After a minute's pause, with the holovideo still playing in the background, the capsule's hatch popped open and a long, bedraggled English face peered out. 'Sorry to disturb you.' The face said. 'But we're lost and I'm hoping one of you can help.'
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'Perhaps you'd like some tea first.' Ua offered and winked at the audience.
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'Well, yes that would be very nice.' The face responded.
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'Arthur Dent everybody!' Ua said and gestured to the literary icon. The crowd summoned another massive cheer. Arthur looked confused. After the cheer died down but before Ua could move the conversation forward, the dulcet voice of Morgan Freeman echoed through the momentary pause '… the primary takeaway is that Life, the Universe and Everything isn't all that it's cracked up to be.'
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'That's what I said' a metallic voice droned from inside the escape-pod.
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'Is that...' Ua turned suddenly giddy. 'Is that Marvin the robot?'
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'I'm afraid so.' Arthur said as he climbed through the porthole. 'Cheerful as ever.'
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'Oh, Marvin.' Ua cooed. 'I have to admit you're my favorite character. Would you be willing to do an interview. I'd be honored.'
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'That makes one of us.' The voice of everyone's favorite paranoid android said as he emerged.
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The audience was euphoric. Ua danced a little jig onstage. Wowbagger glared at the interlopers who had stolen his thunder. Arthur looked confused. Agrajag's soul finally found peace. Marvin felt very depressed.

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.