Book #165 of 2019: Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #5) This final Hitchhiker’s book is, unfortunately, mostly toothless. It skates by on some borrowed goodwill from earlier in the series, but it also abandons numerous plots, concepts, and figures that really deserved a proper send-off of their own. And …
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Book #144 of 2019: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #4) This novel is packed with the usual dry witticisms and absurdist observations of author Douglas Adams, but it carries a very different tenor to the rest of this comic sci-fi series. The new …
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Book #113 of 2019: Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #3) Although still not as instantly iconic (or memorable) as the first novel in the Hitchhiker’s series, this next volume has plenty of clever writing and some fun absurdisms about coincidence and fate that raise it above …
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Book #92 of 2019: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #2) This sequel is less laugh-out-loud funny than the original Hitchhiker’s novel, which makes it harder to look past the looseness of the plot (or the few snobby digs at the working class). There …
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Book #73 of 2019: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #1) It’s probably been half a lifetime since I’ve last read this classic sci-fi series, and I’m delighted to find that the first book is just as fantastic as I remember. The dry British absurdities coupled …
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