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If you love any of Doug Adam's work, you will be sorry to miss this one.

If you are unfamiliar with his work, I urge you to begin with the Hitchhiker's Guide and move through them in order.

n  "Arthur no podía creérselo. Treinta segundos de conversación y ya lo había echado a perder"n

Este libro es un giro de tuerca bastante considerable en comparación con el resto de los libros de esta saga, se nota un alejamiento considerable al tono y temática, pudiendo ubicar más por el lado de comedia romántico (si, dije eso) que ciencia ficción y no es que sea malo, de hecho es una relación que puede ser muy divertida pero que aun teniendo a Dent se siente completamente desconectado.

Personalmente la falta de los personajes principales, tanto por la no aparición de Trillian y Zaphod (que la única mención que hacen de ellos fue un WTF para mi) como por la poca interacción entre Arthur y Ford hizo que el libro no me gustará demasiado además de que no puedo perdonar el que Marvin muriera
de hecho, siempre he sentido que es precisamente la relación entre ellos lo que lograba que la historia se sintiera especialmente entretenida por lo que esto fue un no no no para mi.

Aun con todo ello no puedo decir que este libro me desagradara, simplemente se siente un cambio demasiado drástico y que queda plenamente demostrado al inicio cuando Arthur nota la perdida de su Guía del Autoestopista Galáctico y afirma que ya no va a necesitarla aunque al final si vuelven a ir al espacio.

The fourth installment in the Hitchhiker series is something of an anomaly. Virtually the entire story takes place on Earth, and major characters like Zaphod and Trillian are nowhere to be found. The focus is on Arthur Dent: after years of being kicked around by the universe, poor Arthur finally finds himself in a good old fashioned love story.

Well, maybe “old fashioned” is a poor choice of words. This is a Douglas Adams book after all, and it features robots, spaceships, and a man named Wonko the Sane. But the lunacy has definitely been dialed back, and this really is a love story. Arthur inexplicably finds himself back on what appears to be the Earth, and is quickly smitten. He spends some time investigating how the hell he could be back on Earth considering it was destroyed in the first book, sure, but the story is principally concerned with Arthur and:

”What is he, man or mouse? Is he interested with nothing more than tea and the wider issues of life? Has he no spirit? Has he no passion? Does he not, to put it in a nutshell, fuck? Those who wish to know should read on. Others may wish to skip on to the last chapter which is a good bit and has Marvin in it.”

Before diving into this series for the third time, I considered this book to be the weakest of the five. But I was pleasantly surprised during this reread. It doesn’t have the frenzied energy that the first couple of books have, but Adams proves that he doesn’t need an interstellar stage to write truly hysterical prose (there’s a scene with two men sharing biscuits at a train station that’s up there with anything in the entire series). I think it’s the third best Hitchhiker book: behind books 1 and 2, but better than books 3 and 5.

Oh, and the ending (which is in fact a good bit, and does contain Marvin) is a corker. 4 stars.

Reread in January, 2004 and June, 2012.

Compared to any other book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, I may say something rather controversial:

I think it is the best book.

Mind you, it's a close tie with the first book, but when we add an actual satisfying end to a rather delightful little adventure that has relatively little torture and a great deal more of truly romantic romance, I feel it deserves a boatload of respect.

It's full of all the little zingers we've grown to love, it has enormous amounts of satire... and it's simply beautiful. Do I love Fenchurch? I do. Do I think she's fantastic for finally giving that poor old sod, Arthur, a chance? Nay, even PITY? Ah, that's the interesting bit. It feels genuine. And delightful. And they're SOOO cute. I'll even say right here and now that if every romance on the planet panned out exactly the way this one did, I would die a very happy man.

Did I mention that they're CUTE??? And the flying is MUCH better than that scene in Christopher Reeve's Superman. Word.


And, I should mention here... even though the official fifth book in the series, Mostly Harmless, was written a full 8 years after So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, I'm just going to say that the reading order MUST be adjusted for taste.

Keep So Long as the last book you read. It makes the whole thing CHARMING and BEAUTIFUL. If you read Mostly Harmless, then read it right before So Long. That way, when you have that bitter taste in your mouth, you can wash it down with the pure charm of So Long. :)

(بازخوانی دوم)
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جلد چهارم یکَمی با بقیه جلدها تفاوت داشت.
تفاوتی که "خداحافظ برای همیشه و ممنون بابت اون همه ماهی" با جلدهای قبلی داشت این بود که رومنسش به چشم می‌اومد (یعنی خیلی به چشم می‌اومد چون در حقیقت جلدهای قبلی رومنسشون در حد صفر درصد بود) و در ازاش یکمی ژانر طنز و علمی-تخیلی بودنش کمتر شده بود.
این موضوع یک نکته‌ی منفی نیست و با خوندن این جلد میتونید متوجه بشید که کاملا مقدمه‌ای برای جلد پنجم محسوب میشه. در کل جلد چهارم نسبت به جلدهای قبلی تفاوت‌های فاحشی داشت که برای من جالب بودند.
با وجود این همه تفاوتی که گفتم، اما همچنان خوش‌خوان و جذاب بود، قلم نویسنده همچنان گیرا و پر از مطالب عمیق و مفهومی بود.

و همونطور که گفتم، این جلد مقدمه‌ای برای جلد پنجمه و این ویژگی‌ای بود که جلدهای قبلی خیلی کمتر داشتند و در حد کمی میشد بگیم به هم وابسته هستند (دقت کنید منظورم به این نیست که داستان‌هایی کاملا جدا داشتند، نه، هر کدوم از جلدها در کنار اینکه یک روند پایدار داشتند و کاملا مثل یک زنجیر به هم وصل بودند اما هر کدوم عنصر مجزای مخصوص به خودشون داشتند) اما برعکس، جلد چهارم کاملا مقدمه‌ست و یکجور پیش‌گفتاری برای جلد بعدی محسوب میشه. (امیدوارم به خوبی تونسته باشم منظورمو برسونم)

در کل، این جلد روند متفاوت و جالبی داشت....
و همینطور پایان فوق‌العاده عالی، که از این نویسنده چیزی کمتر از این هم انتظار نمیرفت....
میخواستم 4 ستاره برای جلد بدم اما فقط بخاطر چهار صفحه‌ی آخ��، یک ستاره هم اضافه میکنم و نمره‌ی کامل 5 رو بهش میدم...

Benim de Hollanda'da yeme şerefine nail olduğum Magic Mushroom diye birşey var. Bu zehirli mantarlar çeşir çeşit ebatta ve şekilde satılır. Aslında gerçekten organik bir mantar olduğu için pakedinden çıkardığınız gibi katır kutur yersiniz. Ancak bu mantarların bir özelliği vardır, o da yiyene halisünasyon gördürmesidir.

Bu Magic Mushroom'u yedikten sonra anahtarını bulamayıp kendini anahtar deliğinden sokmaya , tabi giremeyince de kendini zarf gibi kapının altından geçirmeye çalışanı gördüm. Ben belki bu kadar ilginç şeyler yapmadım ama benim de payıma birkaç komik anı düştü.

Lakin bu anılar bana komik. Size anlatsam gülmezsiniz. Haklı olarak umurunuzda bile olmaz. Onlar benim anılarım, onları ben yaşadım ve bana komik. Elveda ve Bütün O Balıklar İçin Teşekkürler de sanıyorum sadece Douglas Adams'a komik. Evet kendince yazarken belki çok eğlendi ama hikaye o kadar oradan oraya gidiyor, o kadar kopuk kopuk ve alakasız ki ilgiyi toplamak Magic Mushroom yemiş bir insanla politik bir tartışmaya girmekten daha zor.

Bir mini hikayesi ve bu serinin son kitabı kaldı. Onları da okuyayım artık Douglas Adams kitabını elime aldığım zaman cız diye yanarım inşallah. "Yok abi filmini sevmemiş olabilirsin, kitapları çok daha güzel" diyen İ.C.Ü. isimli sevgili arkadaşım, sana bakıyorum.

Herkese keyifli okumalar,
(Otostopçunun Galaksi Rehberi serisi hariç)

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.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4), Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy radio series, written by Douglas Adams (with some material in the first series provided by John Lloyd).

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" written by Douglas Adams.

Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The phrase has since been adopted by some science fiction fans as a humorous way to say "goodbye" and a song of the same name was featured in the 2005 film adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و یکم ماه سپتامبر سال 2018 میلادی

عنوان: خداحافظ برای همیشه و ممنون بابت اون‌ همه ماهی جلد چهارم؛ نویسنده: داگلاس آدامز؛ مترجم: آرش سرکوهی؛ تهران نشر چشمه‏‫، 1397؛ در 203ص؛ شابک 9786220100287؛ چاپ دوم 1398؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیایی - سده 20م

در جلد چهارم از این سری: «راهنمای کهکشان برای اتواستاپ‌زن‌ها»، با عنوان: «خداحافظ برای همیشه و ممنون بابت اون همه ماهی»، «آرتور» پس از سفرهای فراوانِ زمانی و مکانی، پس از نزدیک‌شدن به درک معنای زندگی، و نقش کره زمین در آن (در جلد نخست سری: راهنمای کهکشان برای اتواستاپ‌زن‌ها)، پس از دیدار با مردی که جهان را اداره می‌کند (جلد دوم سری: رستوران آخر جهان)، پس از غذا خوردن در رستوران آخر جهان (جلد دوم سری) و پس از نجات جهان از حمله ربات‌های مرگ‌آور کریکیتی (جلد سوم سری: زندگی، جهان و همه چیز)، به کره ی زمین باز‌می‌گردد؛ به زمینی که «آرتور»، نابودی آن را به چشم خود دیده، اما زمین همچنان وجود دارد؛ «خداحافظ برای همیشه و ممنون بابت اون همه ماهی» از یکسو روایت تلاش‌های «آرتور» است، برای کنار آمدن با این پارادوکس، و یافتن توضیحی منطقی برای این تناقض، و از سوی دیگر داستان آشنا شدن «آرتور» با دختری زمینی است، که شاید بتواند «آرتور» را، در حل این معما یاری کند، و البته ماجرای ناپدیدشدن ناگهانی «دلفین‌»ها از کره ی زمین، و آخرین پیام آن‌ها برای بشریت: «خداحافظ برای همیشه و ممنون بابت اون همه ماهی!» نیز هست؛ جناب «آرش سرکوهی» در پیشگفتار این کتاب می‌نویسند «زبان آدامز در این رمان زبانی روایی و گفتاری است، که زیبایی‌های زبان ادبی را نیز حفظ کرده است؛ کوشیده‌ ام تا، علاوه بر انتقالِ طنزِ رمان، شیوه، سبک، روال و لحن و شگردهای نویسنده را نیز به فارسی منتقل کنم؛ زبان «آدامز» در این رمان، که برای خواندن از رادیو تنظیم شده است،‌ زبانی گفتاری است؛ زبان محاوره‌ ای یا شکسته فارسی معادلی است مناسب برای این زبان،. به همین دلیل تصمیم گرفتم تا در مجموعه راهنمای کهکشان��� برای اتواستاپ‌زن‌ها، هم در متن روایی و هم در گفتگوها، از زبان محاوره‌ ای بهره گیرم، و متن روایی و گفتگوها را دو با رسم‌ الخط متفاوت، متمایز کنم؛ شاید این روال یا قراری که من با خود نهاده‌ ام، به چشم برخی خوانشگران عجیب بنماید؛ اما نوشتن زبان شکسته یا محاوره‌ ای فارسی، هموازه با دشواری‌های بسیاری همراه است، از جمله به این دلیل که رسم‌ الخط، یا آیین نگارش فارسی، درباره ی شیوه نوشتن ضمیرها، و فعل‌های شکسته، قواعد پذیرفته شده‌ ای وجود ندارد؛ هدف اصلی من این بوده است که تمامی متن کتاب با رسم‌ الخطی یکسان نوشته شود.»؛ پایان نقل از مترجم

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 28/06/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Yo Fenchurch!

After so many crazy adventures through the galaxy, Arthur Dent is back on a reconstructed Earth. Life, for once, seems happily uneventful, until the arrival of a mysterious character, and the appearance of a fishbowl with a cryptic message; not to mention, the disappearance of every single dolphin in the world.

This was the second best installment in the series. I absolutely LOVED the introduction of Fenchurch. Learned to understand and care about her so much more in just one book, than with Trillian in three. Just loved her character development and her unfolding relationship with Dent. The biscuits story is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever read in my entire life, and my most precious memory of all the books in the series. Cracks me up to tears every time I read it. This was mostly a solid 3 star read, but Fenchurch and the biscuits scene deserving an extra star.

For me this is the end of the series. #5 is something I like to pretend never happened. To anyone reading this, I'm going to tell you something I wish someone had told me before going forward. STOP HERE, don't read #5, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. #4 is a nice HEA ending for the series, #5 REALLY is not. Trust me, don't do that to yourself.

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[1984] [225p] [Humor] [Recommendable] [The biscuits scene <3<3<3] [The flying scene <3]
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★★☆☆☆ 0.5. Young Zaphod Plays It Safe [1.5]
★★★★★ 1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
★★☆☆☆ 2. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe [2.5]
★★★☆☆ 3. Life, the Universe and Everything
★★★★☆ 4. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
★☆☆☆☆ 5. Mostly Harmless
★★★☆☆ 1-5. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  
★★★☆☆ 6. And Another Thing... [2.5]

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¡Hey Fenchurch!

Después de tantas alocadas aventuras a través de la galaxia, Arthur Dent está de vuelta en una Tierra reconstruida. La vida, por primera vez, parece transcurrir felizmente sin sobresaltos, hasta la llegada de una misteriosa figura, y la aparición de una pecera con un críptico mensaje; sin mencionar, la desaparición de todos y cada uno de los delfines del mundo.

Esta fue la segunda mejor entrega de la serie. Absolutamente AME la introducción de Fenchurch. Aprendí a entender y quererla mucho más en un sólo libro, que con Trillian en tres. Amé su desarrollo de personaje y cómo se desenvolvió su relación con Dent. La historia de las galletas es una de las cosas más hilarantes que leí jamás en toda mi vida, y mi más preciado recuerdo de todos los libros de la serie. Me parte de risa hasta las lágrimas cada vez que la leo. Esto fue un sólido 3 estrellas, pero Fenchurch y la escena de las galletas mereciendo una estrella extra.

Para mí este es el final de la serie. #5 es algo que me gusta imaginar que nunca sucedió. Para cualquiera leyendo esto, te voy a decir algo que desearía alguien me hubiera dicho a mí antes de seguir adelante. PARA ACA, no leas #5, es algo que vas a lamentar por el resto de tu vida. #4 es un lindo Feliz Para Siempre final para la serie, #5 REALMENTE no lo es. Confía en mí, no queres hacerte eso.

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n  NOTA PERSONALn:
[1984] [225p] [Humor] [Recomendable] [La escena de las galletas <3<3<3] [La escena del vuelo <3]
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This was delicious once again! In fact, it was so delicious that I love this book almost as much as Arthur loves Fenchurch.

Fenchurch, for those of you who don’t know, is a girl Arthur meets back on Earth (yep, he finally made his way back across time, space and parallel universes) and immediately is smitten with. She happens to be the one other human who has figured out the knack about flying. By one of those cosmic coincidences we’ve come to expect in this series, Fenchurch also happens to be the girl who figured out how the world could be made a good and happy place. In book 1, she was stopped from therefore changing the course of human history because she died during the demolition of Earth. In this mirror book, Earth is not getting demolished so nothing stands in her way - except that she's forgotten. Somehow she arrives at the conclusion that the secret to what she's forgotten is God's Final Message to His Creation, which is why she and Arthur want to go and find it.

This installment of the series is seriously rivaling the first (a feat not even volume 3 managed).
From a rain god who doesn’t know that he is a rain god and therefore is miserable because it always rains no matter where he goes, to the Californian "alchemy" of turning excess fat into gold (a serious dig at the diet industry of course) and, brilliantly, the fictionalized version of a real-life event that had happened to DNA and a packet of his biscuits, DNA was up to his usual brilliance in this book. I’m really glad I read this as the finale although, technically, this is volume 4. But trust me when I say that reading this last makes sense on several levels.

So this is a love story. It’s also the author’s farewell, not only by the dolphins, but also to a wonderful universe as well as all the quirky characters inhabiting it (yes, Ford and Marvin are in this, too, never fear). You can see it in the title, obviously. You can also see it right at the beginning as it has almost exactly the same words as book 1, thus brilliantly closing the cycle while still making it just different/unique enough.

Interestingly, while there were a few great zingers in here (for example the one about the people and their lizards), they weren’t as prominent as in the first or third book. Instead, we get this sweet story, a second chance of sorts, completing so many story arcs and making the reader feel good about it all coming to an end. Silliness abound that once again just made perfect sense, which was simultaneously surprising and felt absolutely natural/destined/obvious.

Finishing this series makes me feel utterly happy and gives me a great sense of satisfaction.

(rereading po 10 rokoch/ toho roku 42. prečítaná kniha)

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