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A review by amerynth
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams
3.0
It was with some trepidation that I added Douglas Adams' "The Salmon of Doubt" to my reading list. While I enjoyed "Hitchhiker" I found most of his following works didn't really live up to the original. But the completist in me won out and I decided to read this last volume, and found that I mostly enjoyed it.
The book is a collection of odds and ends, mostly, pulled from Adams' computer after his death. It includes humorous observations, essays, speeches and several chapters from an unfinished Dirk Gently novel.
I had a good chuckle over parts of the books -- particularly when Douglas' essays were personal and I actually liked the start of the Dirk Gently novel. I found the midsection, which mainly consisted of a series of essays on technology to be super boring though. Without that part, I'd probably give this a higher rating.
The book is a collection of odds and ends, mostly, pulled from Adams' computer after his death. It includes humorous observations, essays, speeches and several chapters from an unfinished Dirk Gently novel.
I had a good chuckle over parts of the books -- particularly when Douglas' essays were personal and I actually liked the start of the Dirk Gently novel. I found the midsection, which mainly consisted of a series of essays on technology to be super boring though. Without that part, I'd probably give this a higher rating.