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BOOK REVIEW #1

Star rating: ☆☆ / ☆☆☆☆☆

SYPNOSIS

Life, the Universe and Everything begins right after the events of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

End of the universe. After 4 years of being stranded on prehistoric Earth, Arthur Dent is met by his old friend Ford Prefect, who drags him into a space-time eddy, represented by an anachronistic chesterfield sofa. The two end up at Lord's Cricket Ground two days before the Earth's destruction by the Vogons. Shortly after they arrive, a squad of robots land in a spaceship in the middle of the field and attack the assembled crowd, stealing The Ashes before departing. Another spaceship, the Starship Bistromath, arrives, with Slartibartfast at the helm, who discovers he is too late and requests Arthur and Ford's help.

REVIEW

I’ll start this review off by saying: It took me ages to complete this book. 21 days. I would read a small amount, and then not pick up the book for days. I ended up rushing myself to get through it in the end since I borrowed it from the library.

Compared to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which was good) and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (which was okay), this was just confusing. It felt like such a mix of different ideas that I couldn’t get my head around it. The first 100 pages I was heavily confused, and the next 100 pages I understood partially, but I just wasn’t that interested. At the end of the book, I still had barely any idea what Krikkit even was; all I can recall is that it was a planet that wanted to destroy the universe. Like a lot of other people, this is the book where I start to lose interest. (literally, i was like “huh??? huh??? what the hell is going on, the fuck???” i looked so stupid reading this HELP)

As this is my first review on Tumblr, you may not know my opinions on the other two books, so that’s what I’ll mention. The first book was amazing. The Hitchhikers’ series are books of comedy, and that’s certainly what the book achieves. The book is wacky, it’s fun, it’s entertaining, and you can still understand what’s happening despite all the wackiness. It’s great.

As for the second book, I don’t really remember much. I did laugh at some scenes, but overall it was meh.

So, you may notice that the more I read these books, the worse I say about them. The third book just wasn’t good, I’m sorry.

Because of this, I’m worried about the rest of the series. I heard that the last two books aren’t the same regarding quality. Each time I continue this series, the lower the star review gets (THGtoG being 4 stars, TRatEotU at 3). I’m not sure if the last two books will be the same quality as LtUaE, worse, or better. And I’m not even sure if I want to find out now. My interest for this series has unfortunately depleted.

(though i will always appreciate the mice for making the earth for us, look at them go!!)

(because of this book series i will always answer “42” sometimes to the most random questions.)

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