Douglas Adams's trilogy of five books really stands out to me its satire and unconventional plot sequence to confuse readers. Although he uses this unique style of writing mainly for effects, it got me thinking about what he really implies. Adams throws many subtle clues that may or may not foreshadow future ideas and events and I feel that it boils down to in life, being attentive to minor or unobvious detailed can greatly help you visualized the bigger picture. The lesson.
Although this book in my opinion wasn't as good as the first few, Adams, still teaches us an important lesson in discovering what clues in life really imply.

Not my favorite of the series. This one drags along at slow pace and doesn't really go anywhere. There are points in this where it seems like Adams is trying to stretch the page total with gimmicks, like "a writer should never..." and then he proceeds to do that tedious thing as an example, which doesn't add to the humor or plot. I think I preferred how the old tv series handled the dolphin storyline better than how it's portrayed here. However, it's not a terrible book by a long shot, as Adams still entertains despite these quibbles.

I really enjoyed this book, much like the rest of the books in the series. Its just a continuation of all the wackiness in the rest of the books. It made me laugh so much, I had a hard time keeping a straight face while reading this.

CAWPILE RATINGS:
Characters 7
Atmosphere 8
Writing 9
Plot 9
Intrigue 8
Logic 7
Enjoyment 8

نسبت به بقیه جلدها خیلی برای من سقوط داشت، یعنی آنچنان علمی‌تخیلی جذابی نبود، طنز و کمدی داستان هم به نظرم توی جلد چهارم خوب نیست، میزان رفرنس‌ها هم کم شده، انگار داگلاس آدامز خسته شده، دیگه میخواد تموم کنه، ببینم جلد پنجم چطوری تموم میشه، جلد ششم هم که دیگه خود داگلاس آدامز فرصت نکرده بنویسه که من اونم قطعاً نمی‌خونم.

Bu kitaba pek çok kişi 5 yıldız vermiş. Neden verdiklerini inanın çok merak ediyorum.

Bir hikaye ancak bu kadar iyi başlayıp tepetaklak olabilirdi.

kesinlikle yazmış olmak için yazılmış bir kitap. İncelemelerime bakarsanız otostopçu serisine başladığımda nasıl hayranlık duyduğumu ve giderek nasıl hayal kırıklığına uğradığımı görebilirsiniz.



Her şeyin havada kaldığı, ana hikayemizde hiçbir ilerleme kaydetmeyen, önemli ve eğlenceli iki karaktere( marvin,zaphod) neredeyse hiç yer vermeyen, tuhaf bir aşk hikayesine girmiş bunu da damdan düşer gibi yaparak beni şoka sokmuş tuhaf bir metinle karşı karşıya kaldım. Douglas Adams'ın kaleminden çıkmışa neredeyse benzemiyor diyebilirim. Adeta bir "Fan Fiction" okudum.

Dünya'nın akıbetiyle ilgili bir gizem yaratılmış, ama sonuçlandırılmamış yine. Seriyle ilgili tüm ümidim son kitaba kaldı. Orada güzel toparlarsa hiç olmazsa iyi hatırlayacağım. Yok olmazsa okuduğum en overrated seri olarak tarihe geçecektir.

Dili ve esprileri yine fena değil. Artık esprilerinden gına gelmiş olsa da halen en iyi şey yazarın üslubu olabilir.

Bunun dışında bazı hoşuma giden göndermeler de oldu. Bu yüzden çok çok acımasız davranmadan 3 yıldızla uğurluyorum bu kitabı.

More craziness and whacky fun & humour. I enjoyed this as much as the previous three.
I'm getting quite sad at the thought this journey will soon be over.

There's no point to reading this book lol maybe that's what makes it funny.

This has got to be my least fav in the series, it doesn't have as much sly silly humor as the first ones had. Nearer to the end it gets funnier though I found myself chuckling.

There's a new character which makes things a bit more interesting. But the book is so jumpy, the parts I most enjoyed was when it wasn't jumping around frantically and just settled down for a second.

I commented in a review of another book from the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series what a remarkable talent Douglas Adams had for successfully writing funny books. Comedy is very hard in written form, I argued, because timing is essential to delivering a joke, and you don’t know what speed the reader will approach your words in book form, or even if they will stop right in the middle of your punch line and pick it up again later, completely missing the set up. Most attempts at fictional “humor” are, therefore, miserable failures.

This time around I paid some attention to the techniques Adams used to overcome this, and I did figure out a couple of them. One is exemplified in the following famous sentence (not actually from this book):

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

No matter what speed you read that sentence, the moment of surprise when you get to “bricks don’t” produces a reaction, even if at first it might be confusion or annoyance rather than levity, and then inevitably you re-read the sentence and “get” the joke. It may not be a laugh-out-loud moment, especially out of context as it is, but in the midst of dozens of similar sentences, sooner or later you start to smile and chuckle a bit. Adams’ use of dependent clauses also requires frequent brief moments of checking in to make certain that you’re keeping up, and causes you to spot little jokes in unexpected places, no matter your approach to reading. He has a light touch that rarely results in over-complicated sentences that require a lot of work to decode, but there is just enough puzzling as you go along to keep you off-balance, and to ensure moments of joy when you get to the “easter eggs” strewn along the path.

Anyway, humor is never funny when over-analyzed, so I won’t go further down that track. Besides, I should try to talk about this book, specifically.

I think I read this within a year or two of its original publication, but at least a few years after completing the original trilogy and seeing the television serial, possibly even hearing some or all of the BBC radio serial that preceded everything. Like many fans, I wasn’t really in a position to appreciate “new” hitchhiker’s material, especially if it tried out new directions, as this book does. I only came back to it now, in e-book format, because I didn’t have any fluffy D&D novels on my phone at the moment, and because a writer I respect posited iconoclastically that this might actually be the best of the series. I’m glad I did, though I don’t think I quite agree.

This book does seem to have been a deliberate effort by Adams to get out of the “rut” of writing more of the same every time he approached HHG. He puts Arthur Dent back on Earth, in the present day, and even has him fall in love. Surprisingly, said love affair isn’t just an opportunity to make Arthur the butt of more jokes, but turns out to be a largely positive, even at times ecstatic, experience. I suspect that his enthusiasm for un-funny love was part of what disappointed me, and other fans, at the time. He does set up an amusing mystery about where this “Earth” came from when we all know it was destroyed, why his girlfriend floats about an inch off the ground, and what the final message is from God to His creation. And he brings Arthur back together at the end with Ford Prefect and eventually Marvin the Paranoid Android, although this really is Arthur’s book.

Honestly, for people who don’t know HHG, or who know it a little and don’t care for it, this might be a better starting point than the traditional “first book.” For people who go around saying “42” all the time, it’s probably still a disappointment. For those who read it years ago and are coming back to it, like me, it contains enough surprises to make you smile.

Meh. Didn't like this one as much as the others, not sure why. It was similar to the rest, but just didn't grab me at any point. The only part I really liked was the inside out house, that made me giggle, and it was neat, but it was too short of a part and that was really all that interested me.

This is the book that had a cover that stuck out in my mind just as much as the first book in the series did. This is also the book that began the downward spiral into lower star ratings. Even though I didn’t love it as much as I did the first three, (wait for it) I did love it more than my grandparents love canned cream corn (I am not sorry at all).

n  Arthur falls in love.n

Honestly, this one felt out of place. I didn’t want it or ask for it, and I sure as hell didn’t expect a mushy love story to fall into my lap when it did. The story that took place around it wasn’t bad but this dip into cootie pool was more than enough to contaminate it.

Three stars to a book that made me think about romance mixed with canned cream corn and man that is so freaking gross.

Audiobook. Useful for insomnia.

Funny but a little too lacklustre at times for my taste.