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Hoopy froods who along with the regular cast of Ford, Arthur, Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin the paranoid android; and the inventiveness of the word processor of Douglas Adams Life, make reading Life, the Universe and Everything a very pleasurable experience
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...word processor of Douglas Adams Life, make reading Life, the Universe and Everything a very pleasurable experience
This is the 3rd (but not final) book in the Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, but don’t worry you don’t have to have read the preceding books to make sense of this one, just remember it’s not meant to make sense.
The story starts with Ford and Arthur stranded in Earth’s ... ...Sofa and reappear at Lords cricket ground just as England retain the Ashes (Cricket lovers will obviously notice at this point that this is a work of fiction). After the excitement of time travel, and an English win at cricket the crowd at MCC are further treated by the appearance of a spaceship from which deadly robots appear, killing and maiming all and sundry with cricket bats, before stealing the ashes and disappearing as suddenly as they appeared. more
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Hoopy froods who along with the regular cast of Ford, Arthur, Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin the paranoid android; and the inventiveness of the word processor of Douglas Adams Life, make reading Life, the Universe and Everything a very pleasurable experience
This is the 3rd (but not final) book in the Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, but don’t worry you don’t have to have read the preceding books to make sense of this one, just remember it’s not meant to make sense.
The story starts with Ford and Arthur stranded in Earth’s pre-history, however they jump on a passing time travelling Chesterton Sofa and reappear at Lords cricket ground just as England retain the Ashes (Cricket lovers will obviously notice at this point that this is a work of fiction). After the excitement of time travel, and an English win at cricket the crowd at MCC are further treated by the appearance of a spaceship from which deadly robots appear, killing and maiming all and sundry with cricket bats, before stealing the ashes and disappearing as suddenly as they appeared.
But what’s really odd is that Ford and Arthur spot Slartibartfast (who designed the fiddly bits around Norway), jump into to his space travelling Italian bistro and give chase. Slartibartfast explains that the Robots are from the lost planet of Krikkit, whose peace loving inhabitants thought they were alone in the universe until a spaceship crashed on their planet. Suddenly roused they decided they had to wipe out all other forms of life and swiftly invented space travel, built a star fleet and proceeded to fulfil their aims. However the rest of the galaxy eventually won the war and locked them on their own planet with a wicket as a key.
The wicket consisted of the steel pillar of strength, the Perspex pillar of science, the wooden pillar of spirituality, the golden bail of prosperity and the silver bail of peace, with the ashes actually being the wooden stump. After the robots steal the silver bail from a party, which our friends are at, they release the planet Krikkit and ……… well you’ll have to read the book.
What I like about this book, and Adam’s writing in general, is the ability to blend the mundane with the ludicrous to produce something new and funny such as the problems of splitting the restaurant bill which generates a whole new branch of physics in the future enabling. Or alternatively he just jumps off the deep end with a ludicrous idea that somehow seems just right, such as the Someone Else’s Problem field which translates as if you paint a mountain pink and erect the field no-one will want to see the mountain so they won’t be able to.
Sometimes it feels as if the plot is only secondary to the various set piece scenes from which Adams can spin of at a complete tangent bringing in ideas of inspired lunacy which can not fail to make the reader chuckle, but overall both this book and the rest of the series stand up to repeated reading letting you spot something new and hilarious every time.
This is a review and a sorry to everyone who reads my reviews regulary, for the past month or so I have just hadn't been inspired by anything what so ever. On the plane to Malta I started to read 'Life, The Universe and everything' after 3 days of not so intense reading I finished the book and I laughed constantly all the way through. The book itself is the third out of a serise of five, 'The Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy' is the first out of ... ...would also like to say that I am not going to write about the end because that would spoil the whole book for everyone who read this review (so 5 people then)
Arthur Dent-The only human remaining thanks to a fleet of ships that are build a hyper terminal, Arthur got of earth with his friend Ford Prefect. He is the main character but also my least fave, he is a little more than slow but this sometimes turns out to be amusing in places, he hasn't ...
The_Mufftery2k 09.08.2001
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Advantages: Very funny Disadvantages: Not very convincing
"Life, the Universe and Everything" is the third book in Adams' five-part "trilogy" and is somewhat different in style to the preceeding two. Whereas previously Adams had given the impression that he was making the books up as he went along, "Life, the Universe and Everything" is an attempt to structure a book around a coherent plot (which, almost incredibly, was the plot to a Doctor Who film that never got made).
Adams himself has pointed out the ...
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Advantages: Very Funny Disadvantages: Weakest of the series
This is the third book in the Hitch-Hikers guide to the galaxy series. This is the first of the books not to be based mainly on the previous radio shows and you can tell. Not that this is a bad thing I just mean that it reads more like a novel and less like a series of connected events. It still retains the same format, our heroes drift from one place to another mainly in search of a good party while a series of bizare events distract them. While ...
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Life, the Universe and Everything
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Douglas Adams
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In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair. This is the audio edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". 'By turns authoritative as the narrator, bemused as Arthur Dent, deadpan as Ford Prefect and manic as Zaphod Beeblebrox.' - "The Times". See all Product Description
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