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reviewed The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #0.5 - 5)

Douglas Adams: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide (Hardcover, 2005, Gramercy Books)

This is the collection of all five of the books in Douglas Adams' famous galaxy …

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These books are not plot driven, and this is intentional. But for me is hard not to consider this as a negative.

First book and second book don't suffer from this problem, characters are strong, there is an overarching thread of inquiry about what is going on in the universe, all very enjoyable to follow.

Book three was ok.

The fourth books stands on its own. The story finally got closer to one character, and is mostly linear, yet an unsatisfactory explanation is given for the lack of continuance from the previous book's events.
The main plot is not at all original, yet it's still worth reading because Adam's wrote it. However there are original bits here and there in the classic style of Douglas Adams. I loved that the author addressed the the reader directly. Probably my favourite book of the collection. It was very interesting reading the foreward …