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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
adventurous
challenging
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book was more interesting than the fourth one, but it still wasn't nearly as good as the first three. The end was definitely a surprise though. I'm glad I finished the series but if I were ever to do a reread I would only read books one through three. Stephen Fry and Martin Freeman were great narrators though!
Arthur Dent settles in to a sedentary life on a distant planet, having lost his true love; Trisha McMillan works to scoop other networks, while her alternate reality self Trillian drops a surprise on Arthur; and Ford Prefect tries to hoodwink the new corporation that now owns the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. And then everything ends.
This fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy has none of what made Adams a great writer: witty repartee between characters, cutting insights into humanity, and strange asides that tied it all together. Dent has lost his outsider status, subbing as an Everyman trying to make sense of the universe, and he and Ford are barely in any situations together, which is when the original stories really clicked. Admittedly, the stories worked best on radio, but this is by far the least of the books.
This fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhikers Trilogy has none of what made Adams a great writer: witty repartee between characters, cutting insights into humanity, and strange asides that tied it all together. Dent has lost his outsider status, subbing as an Everyman trying to make sense of the universe, and he and Ford are barely in any situations together, which is when the original stories really clicked. Admittedly, the stories worked best on radio, but this is by far the least of the books.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I should have taken everyone's warning seriously. Spoilers ahead. This book throws another uncharacteristic thing at the characters. Arthur finds out he has a daughter called Random with Trillion thanks to a sperm bank. Reunited with Ford they have to find Random who's left for Earth. Where the book ends with Everyone experiencing the end of the Earth. Except unlike in the first book nobody tries to Hitchhike their way off earth to survive. God I need Adams to come back from the dead and explain why this 5th book even happened. I am not pleased with the cop out of well due to the way the universe works they all went with earth when it was destroyed for a hyperspace bypass.
non so se è il libro a essere un po' noioso o l'inglese di Adams a essere ostico... ma non sono ancora riuscita a finirlo
edit: probabilmente l'avevo iniziato nel momento sbagliato, dato che l'ho ripreso in mano l'altro ieri e l'ho già finito XD
L'impressione è che sia comunque al di sotto degli altri, o quanto meno sul livello di addio e grazie per il pesce
comunque, il commento potrebbe cambiare dopo una rilettura sequenziale della saga
edit: probabilmente l'avevo iniziato nel momento sbagliato, dato che l'ho ripreso in mano l'altro ieri e l'ho già finito XD
L'impressione è che sia comunque al di sotto degli altri, o quanto meno sul livello di addio e grazie per il pesce
comunque, il commento potrebbe cambiare dopo una rilettura sequenziale della saga
I am dropping this book as I have zero interest in reading it. I may come back to it in the future when I am not busy with many series as I am now, so that I can finish this book in peace.