The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide Five Complete Novels and One Story Epub × 815 pages

Book The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide Five Complete Novels and One Story

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide Five Complete Novels and One Story Epub × 815 pages · At last in paperback in one complete volume here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxySeconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway ArthuT the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed out imagination But a gift wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality So to speakMostly HarmlessJust when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life all hell breaks loose Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?Also includes the short story Young Zaphod Plays It Safe I was thinking about the radio version of this which I heard scraps of at odd times when from time to time it was repeated One in particular stuck in my head which was that one of the characters was stuck on a planet in habited by particularly intelligent birds who had evolved out of the human population when their economy collapsed due to an excess of shoe shops I liked this because it reminded me of Bromley which as a child to my mind had far too many shoe shops all of which it seemed I was doomed to be dragged round whenever my childish feet ever yearning for freedom threatened to escape the bounds of my current pairThe business of the planet inhabited by the intelligent birds was I'm sure recycled and tided up into Zaphod Beeblebrox's visit to the Total Perspective Vortex and that in a way is my experience of the whole series Originally there was the radio series a television series a series of books They overlapped It was anarchic It didn't make sense And it was fun Then the books left all the rest behind Things grew progressively neater orderly a plot emerged For me it became dull the jokes laboured down to the final experience in Mostly Harmless of finding all the loose ends tied up by the author only the understand that it was better from my perspective at least when they were all undone and missiles or maybe it was spaceships it certainly didn't matter eitherway could turn into a bowl of petunias and a whale that thinks oh no not again characters could escape certain death Candide style or a piece of cake could be used to show you in relation to the whole of creation As a series then I suppose I think of it as Mostly Flawed but with occasional nice moments A flood of detail and invention that washes away the story in a glorious incoming tide the author in an unfortunate and unnecessary move though repeatedly sticks his fingers in the plot holes and throws down sandbags full of story even though it is unpredictable joy of the circling poets of Arium and the exchange rates of galactic currencies that best reflect the galaxy we live in and our experience of hitchhiking through it than any kind of story