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A review by coysests
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
1.0
Trilogy in five parts should've stayed a trilogy.
I don't even know anymore. With the atrocity that was So Long I didn't expect much from the last installment but I still expected Douglas Adams. The tone in this book is so inconsistent, actually everything is inconsistent. I laughed once in this. What were three marvelously funny and smart books became a stupid tasteless romance with So long which didn't even include Zaphod and killed off Marvin and now it's this mess of a book that I can't even choose a genre for. The spontaneous story line about Trillian and Arthur having a kid and the seriousness of her not having a home contrasted with the, now plain and stupid, humor of Ford and his kneebiterish behavior plus the fact that Arthur's past love doesn't appear is just a trainwreck.
The death of Marvin and the disappearance of Zaphod are the symbolic death of this series because without them it stops being a story about places it starts being a story about Arthur, Ford and Trillian whose characters have degraded over the series to become unpleasant in every aspect. Adams really must've had a bad year when he was writing this.
I don't even know anymore. With the atrocity that was So Long I didn't expect much from the last installment but I still expected Douglas Adams. The tone in this book is so inconsistent, actually everything is inconsistent. I laughed once in this. What were three marvelously funny and smart books became a stupid tasteless romance with So long which didn't even include Zaphod and killed off Marvin and now it's this mess of a book that I can't even choose a genre for. The spontaneous story line about Trillian and Arthur having a kid and the seriousness of her not having a home contrasted with the, now plain and stupid, humor of Ford and his kneebiterish behavior plus the fact that Arthur's past love doesn't appear is just a trainwreck.
The death of Marvin and the disappearance of Zaphod are the symbolic death of this series because without them it stops being a story about places it starts being a story about Arthur, Ford and Trillian whose characters have degraded over the series to become unpleasant in every aspect. Adams really must've had a bad year when he was writing this.