lesserjoke 's review for:

Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams

2.0

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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 the storyline that replaces them is both threadbare and heavily reliant on parallel universes as a shorthand for character development. It's Douglas Adams, so there are definitely some funny individual passages throughout, but it just doesn't feel like the author's heart was still in it at this point.