I have so many questions and I’m ok with that. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I have others in the series, but the jokes landed and pages kept turning. This one also needed more of Marvin. Much much more.

n  Comical and back on track to amusing.n

I liked it. It made up for book 3 in the series for which I wasn't too fond. For those making their way through the series, I almost want to recommend skipping book 3 and going straight to 4. I don't think you will miss much. And I don't think it's absolutely necessary to have read 3 to comprehend 4. The old quirky humor was back and the weirdness was gone. The old quirky humor was back and the weirdness was lessened. Excuse me. *Clears throat* The consistently quirky humor was ever present and so was the weirdness but it applied to the storyline so it was much more tolerable and we actually welcomed it. Hello weirdness without you we'd not believe we were reading a Douglas Adams book. (If you follow the series the previous pun made absolute sense.) Some of our favorite crazy characters were there and of course they had their towels.
Don't panic and keep reading.

Back to 3 stars in the best way. And I will keep reading.

PS: Since I did see the movie. Although it varies very much from the books, those actors at whom I visualize as the characters as I read. It helps. Just thought you should know that. Your welcome. Carry on.

جلد چهارم مجموعه‌ی «راهنمای کهکشان برای اتواستاپ‌زن‌ها» خیلی متفاوت و بامزه‌تر از جلدهای قبلی‌ست. [نتیجه‌ای که هربار بعد از خوندن جلد جدید به‌ش می‌رسم.]

حالا به هرحال؛ ناگهان آرتور متوجه می‌شه که زمین سرجاشه و تکون نخورده. با این تفاوت که دیگه هیچ دلفینی توی کره‌ی زمین وجود نداره.
حالا باید متوجه بشیم که دقیقاً چه اتفاقی افتاده و موضوع چیه و این که آیا این زمین همون زمین‌ئه؟
برای فهمیدن این که «ماجرا چیه؟» آرتور و فورد و دوست جدیدش اتواستاپ می‌زنن به جایی که آخرین پیام خالق برای مخلوقاتش اون جاست و .. همه‌چیز حل می‌شه.


~ بابت مزاحمت‌های ایجادشده پوزش می‌طلبیم.

هشتگ: آغاز فصل تازه‌ای از فشارهای ایمیلی برای انتشار جلد آخر.

Okay, I just really didn't care for this book, for starters it is set almost exclusively on Earth, which shouldn't be possible and is never really explained, although I am pretty sure I get it. Arthur is really the only character from the series here, Ford plays a small part throughout, but way too small. Zaphod and Trillian are not here at all, and even Marvin only makes a small cameo at the end.

It is a sci-fi book, but man is it boring. It is a romance between Arthur and a woman named Fenchurch. The writing is still the same humorous Adams writing and that is what drove me on, and the only thing that is keeping me in the series at this point, but many I wanted to quit this book.

At this point in the series proceed with caution.

From the Forward:
"Douglas Adams was tall. He was brilliant: I’ve met a handful of geniuses, and I’d count him as one of them. He was a frustrated performer, a remarkable explainer and communicator, an enthusiast. He was an astonishing comic writer: he could craft sentences that changed the way a reader viewed the world, and sum up complex and difficult issues in aptly chosen metaphors. He combined the trappings of science fiction with profound social commentary and a healthy sense of humour to create fresh worlds. He loved computers and was an astonishingly fine public speaker. He was a bestselling author. He was a competent guitarist, a world traveller, an environmentalist, a man who held remarkably wonderful parties, a gourmand. What he was not, and this may seem somewhat odd, especially when you consider how many of them he wrote and sold, and how famously well he wrote them, was a novelist. And this, I suspect unarguably, is the oddest of his novels." - Neil Gaiman

چقد ترجمه ی این یکی خوب بود D:
بی سانسور و روون تر بود :)

+ازاخرم نفهمیدیم ماجرای دلفینا چی شد

This was one of my least favorite books in the series but still moderately entertaining, like a drunk who rambles but is periodically hilarious. It's like one of those road trip indie films with no plot but lots of jokes and introspection. Or an adventure has concluded, everyone goes home, but the story just doesn't know when to quit. I feel like I as the reader sit around a lot waiting for something to happen while Adams drags this out with his often long-winded-and-rambling-for-comedic-effect-and-also-hard-to-follow sentences.

So Arthur Dent is back on Earth, Ford Prefect is in a spaceship just hanging out, and then Fenchurch is this weird sexy girl that's weird and sexy. Arthur goes to the pub, cafeteria, is perpetually awkward. Etc., etc. I am only really interested near the end to find out more about the Dolphins and God's Final Message. And just when you think the adventure is over, because it really was but Adams tugged them back into space, there's a whole nother book. I mean, I'll totally read it. I'm just not expecting it to have the magic of the earlier books.

Hm... How to review this one?

Was it funny? Yes.
Was it witty? Yes.
Did I laugh out loud? Sadly... No. My lips twitched in amusement more than once, but no, I did not laugh. And I laugh very easily. I think my sadness lies in the fact that the original gang weren't together enough for me. The humour lies in how they interact with each other and I found that lacking here. I just miss the craziness of space, is all.

Less frentic, easier to digest, more thoughtful than the previous installment, with a cute, quirky romance, and much less galaxy hopping. The humor is more subtle, the jokes have breathing room. A welcome change of pace.

Read/listend to for the umteenth time.

Masterful.

I thought I'd already written about this. Mysterious.

So there are three of us in my apartment in St John's Wood ages ago. We'd been out with a woman drinking until not so much the early hours of the morning as the late. Now it was about 4pm. We were all still in bed, with not the least ambition of getting up when the doorbell rings. It's the woman from last night. I have no idea what on earth has possessed her to do this, but she's hunted us down and has brought fish. Raw fish to be cooked. Quite one of the worst timed gifts I've ever received.

I spoke down the intercom at her. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.

What can I say? A very handy book indeed.

خیلی با نمک بود ولی جلد قبلیاش بیشتر هیجان زدم میکردن
امتیازم ۳.۵