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Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, #5) - Community Reviews back

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Carmilla Reads
Carmilla Reads rated it 6 years ago
This was my favourite book in the series - clever and hilarious, of course, but also fascinating on philosophical and scientific levels. Parallel universes and infinite Earths - well there were at the start of the novel anyway. One thing I did notice after five books, however, is the lack of charact...
Calyre
Calyre rated it 7 years ago
Elles recommencèrent deux fois le même cirque, jusqu'à ce que Tricia fût certaine que tout ce qui pouvait humainement être clair était aussi clair qu'il soit humainement possible de l'être.Elle commençait vraiment à être piquée. Elle avait même imaginé qu'un oiseau de Central Park l'avait scrutée av...
Autumn Lupin Books
Autumn Lupin Books rated it 8 years ago
This was far more enjoyable than the previous volume in the series. Appropriate pace, and the hopping around to different POVs wasn't nearly as confusing as it has been.
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
I’m not really sure about this book. At first I was going to suggest that it didn’t have any point but then again this is a part of the Hitchhiker’s Guide series, which basically means that the books aren’t going to have a plot, or a point. Well, I guess the lack of a plot, and a point, is a point i...
Irresponsible Reader
Irresponsible Reader rated it 8 years ago
I was dreading this one -- typically, like X-Men: The Last Stand, or The Highlander sequels, I prefer to pretend this doesn't exist. It's the only one of the series that I haven't bought my son, and I don't plan on changing that. Which doesn't mean I couldn't be won over -- after 4 or 5 tries, Dirk ...
Ana V.
Ana V. rated it 11 years ago
Am I the only one who felt the series went donwhill in funny and uphill in dry sarcasm since the second installment?
nouveau
nouveau rated it 12 years ago
the 3.93 marks this as least appreciated Hitchhiker's book, but overall, after a fairly careful re-read, I think it's fair to say the overall quality of the works isn't really changing that much from work to work, and the idea that there's a sort of meta-novel at work-- a UK novel about early parent...
BlondeBookBee
BlondeBookBee rated it 12 years ago
The last book didn't entertain me. Even though it was very different from the other books in the series, it just wasn't interesting. The characters ended up annoying me and I just wanted to get it over with.
amartianmonkey
amartianmonkey rated it 12 years ago
Mostly Humourless, i'm afraid so. The fifth part of the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy is certainly the weakest and a sad way to finish.There isn't any overriding plot till about half way through, even then it's almost inserted in just to finish the series off.With no Zaphod or Marvin (there is an andr...
Book Addict
Book Addict rated it 13 years ago
I still enjoyed this last installment of the series, but found it lacked a clear direction. I also felt the ending was a little anticlimactic? It feels a lot like this book was something of a 'tag on' to the previous four, and I think it would have been better to stop at the fourth book (which in my...
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