false 8698 50 The fourth book in [book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] "trilogy". Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on. . . . God only knows what it all means. And fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it's light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new? 3078120 book 1984 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide, #4) total:12889|5:4137|4:4872|3:3181|2:625|1:72| 12889 51045 15338 238 2 3 false true Wed Aug 20 21:03:30 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 21:04:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue May 20 13:59:33 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 15:10:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 06:16:17 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 05:59:17 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jul 15 21:17:30 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 21:26:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 03 22:34:36 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 22:35:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 11:07:38 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 11:11:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 17:00:47 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 17:02:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 06:34:48 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 06:40:35 -0800 2009
I liked the narration and imgagination of Douglas Adams. But what I first thought was a comparison to Vonnegut soon became a ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 28 11:27:59 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 11:27:59 -0700 2009
Even before I was shown the meaning of life in a dream at 17, I knew this to be true. And yet, I have always felt a need to search for the truth, that nebulous, ill-treated creature. Adams has always felt, to me, to be a common...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 20:51:23 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 05:18:57 -0700 2009 …And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what it was that had been going...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Sat Dec 27 12:55:18 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 12:56:37 -0800 2008 the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series are terrific. I discovered them in my early teen years, just about when I started to question what life was all about. These books don't have any answers they just make fun of the questions. They were really the right books at th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Tue Sep 16 21:14:24 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 04 10:11:47 -0800 2008 Seven or eight-ish times
I'm a decided fan of Adams' Hitchhiker *cough* trilogy *end cough*, mostly for his wry asides and absurdist view of humanity. He is genuinely hilarious.

That being said, his first three books felt to me something like a series...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Wed Apr 16 01:56:22 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 02:09:55 -0700 2008
So, back in 1985 when Douglas Adams wrote another entry in the canon I was unfeasibly excited...

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"What it was like was this:

It was inside out.

Actually inside out, to the extent that they had to park on the carpet.

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My view may be clouded because of th...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Mar 20 09:34:36 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 09:34:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=8698