Paperback, 210 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2009 by Pan Books.
Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams...
After a series of events which have involved Arthur Dent being alternately blown up and insulted in more bizarre regions of the Galaxy than he has ever dreamt existed, he finds himself stranded on Prehistoric Earth. Luckily, an eddy in the space-time continuum lands him, Ford Perfect and their flying sofa lands them in the middle of the grounds at Lords two days before the world is due to end.
It's just not cricket...
With previously unseen material from the Douglas Adams archives Volume Three in the Trilogy of Five --back cover
I do have a strong sense of the series starting to lose its way with this novel. It certainly has its moments, but really doesn't come close to the standard set by the first two books.
Another fun and quick read, with the reappearance of Slartybartfast we are all assured that nothing is going to make sense ever again and can proceed from there.
Incidentally, I vividly remember reading this (not for the first time) with a headache the night before I was due to go on holiday. During this reread, the phrase “The past,” they say, “is now truly
like a foreign country. They do things exactly the same there” stuck out at me especially, which seems to be a very worldly (and of course worryingly accurate) interpretation of things. I also had this sort of feeling in one of the earlier books when Adams' mentions population growth or climate change or something, the sort of issue that had not hit mainstream media during his publication of the series; the very type of occurrence to pass me by those years ago.
I'm not sure I …
Another fun and quick read, with the reappearance of Slartybartfast we are all assured that nothing is going to make sense ever again and can proceed from there.
Incidentally, I vividly remember reading this (not for the first time) with a headache the night before I was due to go on holiday. During this reread, the phrase “The past,” they say, “is now truly
like a foreign country. They do things exactly the same there” stuck out at me especially, which seems to be a very worldly (and of course worryingly accurate) interpretation of things. I also had this sort of feeling in one of the earlier books when Adams' mentions population growth or climate change or something, the sort of issue that had not hit mainstream media during his publication of the series; the very type of occurrence to pass me by those years ago.
I'm not sure I quite approve of Xafod helping save the universe, it really goes against character. Still, the "it", whatever it is that makes this a part of Hitchhikers, is certainly there.
