Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams

Advantages: Great book
Disadvantages: Isn't any

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Some fascinating facts and insights into a great man
Disadvantages: Irritatingly subjective, not shockingly well-designed

...overview of his work. It's written by Neil Gaiman (although later editions have been revised by another writer), who is probably still best known for the apparently seminal Sandman graphic novels, as well as his Terry Pratchett collaboration Good Omens. The fact that Gaiman, a massively respected writer in his own right, agreed to do the book is a measure of the importance of Douglas Adams to Literature, the Universe and Everything. The book moves roughly chronologically through Adams's life and career, from his childhood as a Doctor Who fan, an adolescence tempered by dreams of rock stardom and beyond. The story doesn't stop with the ridiculous sums of money generated by the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy phenomenon, and chapters are also devoted to the man's later passion for conservation of endangered species and for the development... Read review

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Advantages: funny story, very well written
Disadvantages: no disadvantages

...known love of reading; the universe is present in each one, it appears as frequently as you would wish for. I have also noted in the chief of Trampers books of the galaxy; that it is here in the RATEOTU, we learn about the Ravenous Bugblatter animal from Traal, all of the poetry writing Vogon Poesies, the transportor drink called the Gargle Bläser, and of course the other Leckerbissen idea is the one of being attractive, and living life in the galaxy as you were born to do. The universe is very brilliantly manufactured by Douglas Adams. He even gives you the crucial answer to the reader : the question of the life, universe and everything. The book is a book of all these sides of science, fun and imangination. It is like a massive Tandis that comes with a series of 5 that taking them apart from each other is not so important as they are... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant read, extremely funny, just buy it OK?
Disadvantages: None!

...Douglas Adams’ ‘Hitch-hiker’s Guide’-trilogy consists of The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, The Universe and Everything, Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless. These five books together lend a whole new meaning to the word ‘trilogy’. The first book starts off with the Earth being destroyed by Vogon warships to make way for a new hyper-space bypass. Shortly before the destruction the main protagonist, Arthur Dent, is whisked off into space by another important character, Ford Prefect, who is in possession of that wonder of wonders: The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Universe, which, when activated, displays the message: ‘Don’t Panic’. Through the first three volumes Arthur Dent is exposed to the perversities of a largely inexplicable universe. He meets, among others... Read review

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