Reading this collection makes me feel like I know Adams better than I ever did before, and he was certainly a gem of a man. Throughout reading this book, I also felt like this was a last swansong to Adams, trying to bring Adams to his readers like never before, and filled with writing by other authors on Adams, and on his influence (Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins, the latter writing an especially beautiful lament after Adams' death in 2001, near the end of the book).

I liked the first two thirds of the book much better than the last third, the unfinished Dirk Gently/Hitchhiker's/not sure what novel that Adams was going to redo anyway. Having not yet read any Dirk Gently, it confused me, and of course the lack of resolution to such a mind-bending plot was frustrating as well. But still, this book is a must for any Adams fan looking to "complete the collection", as they say -- sadly, knowing that no new stories will come out of that great mind again.