And Another Thing...

De: Eoin Colfer

Narrado por: Simon Jones

The journey of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy continues through time and space in this installment from the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series.

Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released, and colorfully insulted more than is strictly necessary. And of course, Arthur Dent has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

Arthur has finally made it home to Earth, but that does not mean he has escaped his fate. Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa have evaporated rapidly, along with all the world's oceans. For no sooner has he touched down on the planet Earth than he finds out that it is about to be blown up ... again.

And Another Thing ... is the rather unexpected, but very welcome, sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. It features a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese.

Meh..

The book has its ups and downs, I like Thor, the cows, and Beeblebrox.... But overall this book was a letdown. I felt like the author wanted to see how far he could possibly stretch the improbability theorem.

Douglas Adams had the skill of making you believe things which this author could not replicate.

Skip this book.

Same spirit as the guide.

great story in the same eccentric style as the original. Glad to see all the important characters were there.

Loved this final installment

It was a wonderful addition to the series. I enjoyed having this one last adventure with the characters.

Amazing

It is a bit different from the main 5-book "trilogy" indeed but it doesn't mean that it is bad. It actually means quite opposite in this case. I loved first two books and enjoyed the other three. For my personal taste this is the best one of all six books. Maybe falling a little bit short behind the very first one because that was the one that actually gave birth to this Incredible universe and characters in the first place.

Overall I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed any of other five books in this series. I am positive that you will love this one as well!

I Guess...

the book has a few laughs
it has some wit
it pales compared to Adams.

the pace is disjointed. the segues are perpetual and unending and pointless (and often not in keeping with the universe Adams created). the related jokes and words are monotonous. zark and frood are every other words. never mind all the other phrases.

and why is Zaphod the protagonist and not Arthur?
and the female characters are completely changed from Adams. they used to be strong. here, they are wilting (literally fainting) and moody.

this doesn't enrich the story, and the tidiness of the ending isn't very Adams like.

the performance was pretty good, though frequently the characterizations are confusing and I swear Ford's dialect changes by the end.

my life wasn't changed for having read it. nor will yours.