Life, the Universe and Everything

by Douglas Adams

mass market paperback, 232 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2005 by Del Rey.

ISBN:: 978-0-345-39182-7
OCLC Number:: 156753992

The 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 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 vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; 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 …

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Paul reviewed Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

Review of 'Life, the Universe and Everything' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I do have a strong sense of the series starting to lose its way with this novel. It certainly has its moments, but really doesn't come close to the standard set by the first two books.

Paul reviewed Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

Review of 'Life, the Universe and Everything' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I do have a strong sense of the series starting to lose its way with this novel. It certainly has its moments, but really doesn't come close to the standard set by the first two books.

M@ reviewed Life, the universe, and everything by Douglas Adams

Review of 'Life, the universe, and everything' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

There are four quotes in this book that makes it one of my absolute favorites.

Arthur could almost imagine Paul McCartney sitting with his feet up by the fire one evening, humming it to Linda and wondering what to buy with the proceeds, and thinking, probably, Essex.

It came lilting back to them through the soft night air, and was a sweet romantic ballad that would have netted McCartney Kent and Sussex and enabled him to put in a fair offer for Hampshire

The middle eight bridge, which would have had McCartney firmly consolidated in Winchester and gazing intently over the Test Valley to the rich pickings of the New Forest beyond, had some curious lyrics.

Her laughter seemed to discharge something in the atmosphere. From somewhere at the back of the crowd a single voice started to sing a tune that would …

There are four quotes in this book that makes it one of my absolute favorites.

Arthur could almost imagine Paul McCartney sitting with his feet up by the fire one evening, humming it to Linda and wondering what to buy with the proceeds, and thinking, probably, Essex.

It came lilting back to them through the soft night air, and was a sweet romantic ballad that would have netted McCartney Kent and Sussex and enabled him to put in a fair offer for Hampshire

The middle eight bridge, which would have had McCartney firmly consolidated in Winchester and gazing intently over the Test Valley to the rich pickings of the New Forest beyond, had some curious lyrics.

Her laughter seemed to discharge something in the atmosphere. From somewhere at the back of the crowd a single voice started to sing a tune that would have enabled Paul McCartney, had he written it, to buy the world.

I read those four sentences and I get the entire musical history of an entire alien world. I may even have a faint pianissimo glimmer of what those songs sound like. And it used just two adjectives to describe the music. There are poets who have spent their entire careers chasing that kind of artistic achievement, the economy of language conveying a universe of feeling.