Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book 5) by Douglas Adams (MOBI)

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Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIt’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose.Hell takes a number of forms: there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one. Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist. . . . He is anything but harmless.”—The Washington Post Book World

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⭐Mostly Harmless is a brilliant addition to the Hitchhiker’s series (before that Eoin Colfer guy completely f’ed it up). It starts with Arthur Dent losing Fenchurch and then finding out that he has a teenage daughter Random Frequent Flyer Dent.The best section of the book is the criticism on astrology. The Grebulons from planet Rupert have lost their minds and become obsessed with astrology. Trillian almost loses her mind dealing with these idiots.I like how Arthur is finally given dimension in having to care for a daughter he’s never met. This is something that hasn’t been seen in the trilogy until this book. I also enjoyed Freeman’s voice of the delivery man who fights the Boghog. Classic British acting.The only criticism I have is the section where Arthur becomes a sandwich maker. The jokes were flat and the scene dragged on for almost 2 hours. It was the equivalent of the raffle ticket scene in the fourth book. Also, I never did like the whole arc with Aggrajag. It was never funny to begin with, so there was no reason to end the book on an Aggrajag joke.This book might not have been the author’s best literature, but it was a fine continuation of the saga.

⭐My least favorite in the series but still worth reading. Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, Trillian and Marvin are some of my favorite characters ever and their adventures are nothing short of extraordinary! I’m sad I’ve finished the series but have enjoyed every minute.

⭐Mostly Harmless is the final book in Adams’ HHGTGseries, unless you count Eoin Colfer’s enjoyable “AndAnother Thing” and it is just as funny as the rest.It is also a bit longer so it fulfills thatstereotype of making the last book in a series thelongest. But that is irrelevant to the story which isamazing…and confusing as hell. But hilarious…andheadache inducing at times. My feelings to this bookare a bit mixed. On one hand, I loved it and laughedalong with it, but on the other it just seemed alittle too ridiculous. Maybe the series was gettingold for me or just the random plot twists and tares.I think that I am being a little hard on it becauseit is the final book and the ending, which is aboutas abrupt and unsatisfying as falling off a cliffinto a pool full of starved sharks, disappointed me.It did not feel like it should have ended that wayand it seemed as though Adams rushed it. “I lovedeadlines. I love the wooshing noise they make whenthey go by.” Adams said this and I get the feelingthat he had missed several of these deadlines beforefinally slapping an ending on the book and handing itin. Great book and brilliant as ever but not themajor finale that some fans might be expecting.

⭐I read The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the first book in the series, with great interest and joy. The Restaurant at the End of The Universe was very enjoyable too, but less so than the fist book. I didn’t like Life, The Universe and Everything that much, and I had completely lost interest by So Long.With Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams returns to his much loved Hitchhikers style of writing.One could say that the story comes full circle, because the series which starts with the Earth being blown to bits, ends with the earth being blow to bits, again.Arthur is finally relieved of his burden, and we feel happy for him. Although not all the Hitchhikers characters we love are not in this story, as was the case with So Long, but I could not not like this story. I did miss Marvin, though.

⭐I always find Adams to be extremely witty and entertaining. Some books are better than others but I love so many of the little one liners and truths he adds in. Especially loved the part about the king.

⭐Production was very good ,story was almost depressing.

⭐—spoiler alert—Although the ending was not what Douglas really wanted to have, in overall, the story winds up to a conclusive solution.—spoiler ended—I loved this trilogy (!) and I have to admit that I decided to read them after hearing a lot of praise about the movie. Even though I had seen it almost a decade ago it did not impressed me a lot. But the book is different. I could not stop reading the books. The humour in it exceeds the movie about 67x fold. This trilogy is a must read for everybody.

⭐After five books and lots of laughs the series finally ends. One of the few book series I’ve read where the ending just seems to…fit. Not a whole lot of laughs like the others but I suppose this book was more about the story and finally finishing things off.

⭐Before reading Mostly Harmless, the fifth, and last, book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy”, I looked at some reviews written by other readers. Many of them were negative. Douglas Adams was depressed when he wrote it. The ending was terrible. And so on.Personally, I thought this was a great book. In saying that I refer you to the following paragraph from Mostly Harmless:“We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.”We see the truth of this statement every day on the review pages of Amazon and Goodreads. People seem to look out on the same universe. However, there’s a clue to the reality of multiple dimensions in the fact that good books in one universe are bad in another. Mostly Harmless takes – for me at least – a thrilling trip through alternative universes.Mostly Harmless begins and ends with the story of some interstellar explorers called the Grebulons. A meteorite damages their ship, resulting in the loss of all stored memories. The crew know they set out to monitor something, but have no idea what. By chance, they end up on a planet in the outer reaches of Earth’s solar system monitoring the only material they can find to monitor – TV shows beaming out from Earth. Cagney and Lacey and M*A*S*H seem to be particular favourites. The Grebulons’ situation contrasts with that of the Vogons who hove into view as the book comes to its conclusion. The Vogons know exactly what their purpose in life is. If you compare the clear, small-minded and unpleasant purpose of the Vogons, with the benign TV watching aimlessness of memory-deprived Grebulons, things look different vis-a-vis the aimless TV viewing. The best lack all conviction; the worst are full of passionate intensity, as Yeats would have said. It’s like there’s an alternative universe where casual TV watching is a deeply meaningful activity, as is reading books that some people think are not very good.I send this message from my universe to yours – Mostly Harmless is a great book.

⭐I read the five books back to back and in my opinion Mostly Harmless is by far the least enjoyable of the series. The book feels very different from the others, almost as if someone else wrote it. It’s a fractionally longer book but has significantly fewer chapters. It’s slower, less interesting, and has far less ‘crazy’ stuff happening. Looking at the timeline, the first 4 books were released in a 5 year period whilst this one had an 8 year wait and you wonder how much of an impact that had on the writing. The last quarter of the book does pick up and feels much more in keeping with the other books, it’s just a shame the majority is so laboured. What I would say is that the bit with the king is well executed and whilst not up there with the biscuit eating scene in one of the previous books it is quite satisfying.

⭐I was very surprised at this book. The fourth book in this series was such a disappointment that I was not holding out much hope for this one. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the renewed level of cleverness that Douglas Adams was able to weave into the plot. It wraps up the series pretty nicely as the characters come full circle. There are recognisable characters and creatures from earlier in the series and I feel like this book was a decent note to end the series on. That being said, it is in no way as good as the first two or three and I would only recommend that you read this if you have read the travesty that is the fourth book and want to renew your faith in the series.

⭐I’ve been a fan of Douglas Adams for over 25 years after discovering the origional trilogy whilst holidaying in Bulgaria….hand towel included.I have read all the books time and time again and still love them so I thought I would give the audio books ago. Martin Freeman is great even if he does seem to spend the first couple of CD’s warming up to the role of storey teller. I have them all downloaded to my PC, phone and ipod so when ever a boring 5 minutes or couple of hours present themselves I can plug in and smile may through a couple of chapters or more.Buy all of them and enjoy them again and again even if its just so you can sit there in silence grinning like a loon on the rush hour train to work, making everybody else slightly nervous around you as no one knows how to deal with someone smiling on a train that time of the morning. Who knows you may end up with a couple of seats to yourself!!!!!!!! 🙂

⭐It’s a small, and for some, petty Grievance but I has expecting a 42nd anniversary addition, as advertised, however I get this instead. This means my matching collection is now ruined and I don’t think my OCD will cope

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