le book review number fifty~ mostly harmless

title: mostly harmless
author: douglas adams
series: hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (#5/5)
personal star rating: 4.98/5 stars


from the back cover:
"The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very little of this is, however, at all comprehensible to anyone below the level of advanced god and, since it is now well established that all known gods came into existence a good three-millionths of a second after the Universe began rather than, as they usually claimed, the previous week, they already have a great deal of explaining to do as it is, and are therefore not available for comment at this time . . ."


first sentence:
"The history of the Galaxy has got a little muddled, for a number of reasons: partly because those who are trying to keep track of it have got a little muddled, but also because some very muddling things have been happening anyway."

review:
this book overall was probably my favourite. i liked it a whole lot. everything tied together and everything ended in a way that was unexpected but in a way that it also couldn't have ended any other way. i found it to be easier to follow along and to see how everything tied together.

le book review number fourty-nine~ so long and thanks for all the fish

title: so long, and thanks for all the fish
author: douglas adams
series/standalone: the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #4/5
personal star rating: 4/5 stars

from the back cover:
"From the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy:
"and then, one Thursday, nearly 2,000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own somewhere in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no-one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace by-pass, and so the idea was lost forever. This is not her story..."
But So Long and Thanks for all the Fish is.
At least partly...
Arthur Dent finds her in the last place in the universe he would expect to find anything but which 3,976,000,000 people will find oddly familiar.


first sentence:
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."


review:
I really liked reading this book. It was different from the other three earlier books and seemed to be easier to follow. I found it to be entertaining and enjoyable. I like this series. There's not much to say about it, just that it was good. I'm a bit indifferent about this series. It's good but I don't know how I'm feeling.

le book review number fourty-eight~ life, the universe, and everything

title: life, the universe and everything
author: douglas adams
series/standalone: series - the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy book #3
personal star rating: 4/5 stars

from the back cover:
The Answer is Forty-two... so what was the Question?
Since the improbable became a way of life for Arthur Dent, he's not surprised to find himself stranded on prehistoric Earth in a miserable cave. But when he hitches a ride out of the past and finds himself back where he started, he begins to wonder whether his life is ever going to make sense.


As the fate of the entire universe rests in his hands, Arthur is about to discover a secret about life, the universe and everything - it's really staggeringly, stupidly unfair.


The third book in Douglas Adams's legendary Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy plays fast and loose with facts, face and physics and is, like the universe itself, infinitely funny.

Note: I liked this cover better than the cover from the book I read.

first sentence:
"The regular early morning yell if horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and suddenly remembering where he was."

review:
I'd like to say I enjoyed this book immensely. However, I did not. Maybe it's because I've had so much to study that I haven't had the time to enjoy these books and thoroughly enjoy them, it's more "I have to finish this before the end of the school year or I'll have to wait until September." But they are really good books, I can't figure out why I'm not enjoying them as much as I want to. Maybe my expectations were too high. Anyway, these are good books. Read them.

le book review number fourty-five~ the restaurant at the end of the universe

title: the restaurant at the end of the universe
author: douglas adams
series: the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (book #2)
pages: 200 pages
personal star rating: 3/5 stars

from the back of the book:
"When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains - 'Where shall we have dinner?' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.

first line:
"The story so far:
 In the beginning the Universe was created."

review:
I found I like specific parts of the book but overall, it just wasn't as good as it seemed. I thought I really really liked this series but I'm not so sure now. I think the series is well written but at times it gets boring with the way it's described. But at the same time, the way it is written is so captivating of the events, it's just the events aren't as interesting as I would have hoped. I love the writing style, and I love the way the author describes everything but the actual events lead up to a disappointing point. I don't know if I was just expecting something more, something else entirely, or I just wasn't expecting anything but I don't know what to make of this book. I found it to be less memorable than I anticipated. I honestly think it deserves the 3 stars for writing with a clear voice, intriguing ideas and having great characters but the two star loss is from the actual events - they just didn't impact me overall.

le book review number thirty-eight~ the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

title: the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
book in series: 1/5
author: douglas adams
pages: 180 (in the edition that i borrowed from the library)
personal star rating: 4.99/5 stars

so close to five stars. why does it lose .01 of a star? it didn't exceed expectation. It lived up to it, but there was just a little bit of room that i could see a little more of something.

from the back cover:
On Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very strange and startling place.

first sentence:
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

I liked reading it. I liked reading it a lot. You could even say I loved reading it. But there was something about it that seems i never completely got involved with it. I was not absorbed so much in the story and plot that it seemed that i just missed something. The writing style is remarkable and i fully intend on reading the rest of the series and quite possibly reading this book again. I like the idea of this story and the portrayal was very unique and amazing.

My favourite part was Marvin. His pessimism and depressive personality have a dry humour undertone. There is a lot of comic relief that is welcome and he's just perfect.

Overall, this was a really, really good book.