The amazing, logic-defying, fifth novel in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. It's easy to become disheartened when your planet has been demolished for an unnecessary hyperspacial express route, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space/time, the spaceship in which you are traveling crashed in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few sandwich-making skills.
[Editor's Note: The following is a combined review with SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH.]--Cosmic ridicule abounds in these last two novels that sprang from the author's BBC Radio serial, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." The magnum opus followed hero Arthur Dent on absurdist and just plain silly adventures through time and space, beginning with the destruction of Earth. The plots of the wildly popular print, dramatic, film, comic book, and audiobook versions are hard to describe, indeed often incomprehensible, and ultimately beside the point. One listens to enjoy the inexhaustible fecundity of the author's prankish genius. Narrator Martin Freeman played the hapless, clueless Dent in the film version. A light touch of special effects and musical bridges nicely augment his spirited and suitably dotty reading. The narrative unfolds in his native London accent. The numerous characters gain humor from his chameleonic voice and ear for dialect. A tour de force for both writer and reader. Y.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
New York Times Book Review ...
"Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here's] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem."
Baltimore Sun...
"It is Mr. Adams's genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock. . . . Delightful."
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