Mostly Harmless

By: Douglas Adams

Narrated by: Martin Freeman

Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. 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?

Don't miss the first parts of the series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

©1992 Serious Productions, Ltd (P)2006 Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—New York Times Book Review

“It is Mr. Adams’s genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock. . . . Delightful.”—Baltimore Sun

I didn’t want it to end

The story itself may actually be the best of the series.
I just hated how it all wrapped up, because I really wanted it to keep going.
But, if you’re going to end it, this is the only way to do it.
I guess the guy with the 2 heads could have had his own adventures, but if you included himself in the number of people who like him, you’d have a solid ONE, and a few dozen or so, “not actually like, not as such.”
Martin Freeman made this story come to life as he has done before. He took a really really really good story and made it fantastic to listen to with his enthusiasm and range of voice, his ability to nail an accent, (except for the redneck bartender where E. P. Was singing his own classics, he wasn’t so great, but I guess it could have been overdone for the sake of just slipping in the fact that he can also do a US southern-drawl as well and didnt feel he’d have the opportunity to show off his talent otherwise) ...I forgot the subject of this sentence. 🤔
Whatever! Martin Freemen is great.

Fantastic as always

The only problem I found was the end of the book just seemed so abrupt? Like, strange. But the story was fabulous and, as always, Martin Freeman was miraculous

Good but others are better

i liked IT and IT was worth the purchase. there is nothing more to be said

classic.

love douglas adams. i reread this series every couple of years because it reminds me not to talk the world so seriously.

Funny, Witty, Entertaining!

I loved the series! It has become a favorite of mine for sure! The humor and interesting places created in this universe with many parallels to our society. Very well made and entertaining! I have read it many times!

Required

This entire series of book should be required reading for everyone on earth. Please don’t tell me how many words I need to write for my review I’ll choose how many words my review has in it, or does not have in it without you telling me it’s enough words or not in that works is ridiculous.

An amazing end to a series

When I first read this book I didn’t really set in that this is the end to a wonderful series. It seemed that it would go on forever but this book finally brought closer to an already fantastically written series.

Tedious

By this point in the series, the author's attempts to be zany and clever are tiresome. Couldn't wait for it to be over.

Mostly wonderful.

Any additional comments?

Martin Freeman did a fantastic job narrating. Voices were varied and distinguishable, but more than that, they fit each character wonderfully. Each voice, each reading of the dialouge seemed to have been chosen with astute consideration.

Although there are some bright spots, most of this book is pretty bleak. I happen to love the addition of Random though, and the effect she has on Arthur.

I loved getting another helping of THGTTG.

love this whole series this was a great finish

love this whole series this was a great finish.totally recommend this for anyone at all.