Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide, #3)
by:
Douglas Adams (author)
"HYSTERICAL!"--The Philadelphia InquirerThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total...
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"HYSTERICAL!"--The Philadelphia InquirerThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don't know it!"ADAMS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TREASURES: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading."--The Arizona Daily Star
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345391827 (0345391829)
ASIN: 345391829
Publish date: November 1st 1995
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Series: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -5 (#3)
I visited Douglas Adams' grave at Highgate and partook in the tradition of leaving a pen. I'm not sure why that's done by so many. Were Adams' pens always running out of ink? I would have left a towel, but I didn't have one with me. Call me an idiot (I've been called worse) but until recently I d...
Pendant ce temps, sur la Terre, la pluie s'était mise à tomber à seaux et Arthur Dent, assis au fond de sa grotte, passait l'une des soirées les plus pourries de toute son existence, à ressasser tout ce qu'il aurait pu répondre à l'étranger, tout en écrasant les mouches qui passaient également une s...
I like that Arthur starts doing things and not reacting to things in this, and I like that Trillian gets fed up and goes and does what she wants and is generally the smartest person in the book, but plotwise this seemed to be the least thought out so far, with them just pinging around time and space...
I'm just gonna put quotes here that I liked."I beg your minuscule pardon?""It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
I didn't enjoy this as much as the previous books. I found it very choppy and all over the place. Multiple times I was confused as to where the hell I was or what the hell was going on... which might be because I was listening to this in traffic and did get a bit distracted every now and then... bu...