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Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

11 reviews

st1la's review against another edition

2.75

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

A disappointing ending of the serie, the characters seem to even forget what happened in the previous books...
I'm really sad that Douglas Adams didn't get to write another book to put a better ending to this story like he wanted to do.

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Thank God I've finished this series, I don’t know why I am carrying on with this series, my hope was this book would make sense and have an actual ending. I’m still so confused, I don’t get it. It ended on a cliffhanger, and I’m lost.

This book is about Arthur Dent, and he hadn’t had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. After years of galactic wanderings, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There’s nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away, Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all, he’s encountered most of them before.

As mentioned in my previous reviews, I was so confused for the majority of this book. There was a lot of space stuff and there wasn’t a distinct storyline, it was just all over the place. If you ask me tomorrow what this book was, I couldn’t tell you. I generally don’t know what I've just read. The introduction of new characters including Arthur’s daughter in the last book just wasn’t needed. It felt like a children’s book where I didn’t get the joke. I still don’t get the joke. I missed the British humour and would just like that back. I still don’t know if Earth survived or if Arthur survived.

I understood Arthur wanted to find his home and would have loved that to have been the main storyline. Now, I am a girlie who loves multiple POV, but the random switches of characters confused. I would have loved for it to have been from Arthur POV only. If it was only based on Arthur finding out about his daughter and getting to know his daughter, that would have been great, but I just felt like this book was all over the place.

This was a disappointing series, and I should really learn to stop reading a series when I don’t enjoy the first book.

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ky_q_xoxo's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This one took a turn. 😂

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maddie_can_read's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Still love the writing style and all the twists and turns,

but don't love the ending. Where's Zaphod!

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Our characters are unfortunately back to suffering for most of the book

and ultimately all die.

I read that Adams was planning on writing a sixth hitchhiker book

agreeing with readers that mostly harmless was "a very bleak book"

but he died before he was able to in 2001.

I'm going to check out "And another thing" by Eoin Colfer who was given permission by Adam's Widow to write a concluding book for the series.

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arlettep's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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nerdkitten's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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orchidlilly's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Woohoo, Multiverses! Very exciting and possibly the most plot heavy of the series, this one goes at breakneck speed. I do miss seeing Zaphod, who hasn't made any significant appearance since the third book. The ending is final, and really very apt.

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mikki_9's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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augustar14's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

And so ends the original series by Douglas Adams. Can't say I don't wish there was more. No one blends absurdity into a rather understandable and even sometimes trackable series and Universe like he did. Once again, things don't go according to plan, for Arthur Dent or Ford Prefect. At first that doesn't look to be so great, then things begin looking up, but new management at The Guide and a new version of said Guide mean there's much concern to be had about the future, again. Ford is going to need another drink. And Arthur will need another drink to deal with Ford and his drink. Probably a pan galactic gargle blaster or a bottle of that old janx spirit.

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wormgirl's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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