Category: Book review

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up and the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit—and immediately all hell breaks loose. Hell takes a number of there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one. 

This book is the last book in the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. And it’s the weakest book in the series. 

The humour in this book finds a new level of just not working for me, and any attempts on humour in this book I find very awkward and very boring. 

The plot in this book did had its good moments but these moments were very rare and they ended very fast. Which really annoyed me because I would have given it so much higher rating if these goods moments were longer and more frequent. 

Other than that the plot been very boring and it felt too long, because it wasn’t anything happening other than drama from the past. 

The characters were okay for the most part. But at times they make very stupid and absurd decisions which really have blown my mind.

The writing style here was bad and okay at the same time. Which is really hard to explain because there were pages which have been good but also there were pages which have been very bad.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Young Zaphod Plays it Safe is a novella by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy universe. It doesn’t appear as a standalone work, but is included with several collections. The story is a prequel to the events in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and has the young Zaphod Beeblebrox working as a salvage ship operator. He guides some bureaucrats to a crashed spaceship which may be leaking some hazardous materials. The bureaucrats are determined to “make it safe”. The comic asides in the story include some of the time travel paradoxes which are a common running theme in Adams’ SF work, and plenty of material about lobsters

This short story is a prequel to the first book in this series. Which really surprised me in a good way of course. 

The characters in this short story were okay but I didn’t care about them at all. I wish that they could have got more time in a way.

The plot in this short story was really interesting and it annoyed me that it was so short. 

I expected this short story to be bad, I don’t know why. However it have surprised me because it was good. 

This short story was interesting, entertaining and intriguing. But at the same time I felt like there was something missing in it.

The writing style here was okay. But it had the potential to be so much better which the author didn’t use.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

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.

To be fully honest this book is the weakest book in this series so far. Of course I have one book and on short story left in this series so everything can happen in that time. 

My main problem with this book is that its no longer a sci-fi book as the rest of this series but instead it turned out to be a love story book. Which really annoyed me.

The characters here, I came to hate them in this book. I also found them to be very boring and awkward at times which really pissed me off because I wanted to like them again after the previous book rather than to dislike them even more.

The writing style are worse than in the previous book. Which really made me even more bored of this book. 

In my opinion this book was very boring.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.

To be fully honest after reading this book I can honestly admit that I don’t understand the hype with this series. In my opinion it’s okay and nothing more than that. 

The plot in this book was weaker than the previous book, and somehow I found the majority of this book edging on the side with boredom. Of course it had some good moments here and there but nothing more than that. 

The writing style here were okay. I wish it could have been better because it would have made this book and the entire plot better. 

The characters here, I became bored of them pretty quickly which I don’t know why. It felt like the character development didn’t happen and that the characters were just as the same as they were in the first book. 

In a way this book felt very confusing and I found myself zoning out while reading this book and starting to think about other things than this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability – and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur’s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a long-time friend and contributor to the The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMilan, a fellow Earth refuge who’s gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, who suffers nothing and no one gladly.

I gotta say that this book so far is the best book in the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. 

Somehow this book takes the world and plot from the first book and builds onto it. Because of this we get to see more of the world in this series and we get a better plot in this book. Which I really came to like much more this book than the first book. 

The plot here was very good. Its very unique and its very interesting to read. There was something really intriguing and entertaining about this book. Which really caught my attention and kept me reading to the end.

The characters in this book gets better than they were in the first book. It might be a character development or me taking the time to actually like them. 

However this book has the same problem as the first book had. Which is that the humour was very weak and it didn’t fall in with me.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

The reason why I decided to pick up this book and start this series is because ive heard a lot of good things about this book. 

The plot was really unique and it blown my mind. Because its really good. I might not love it but I like it a lot. 

The plot in this book is very strange because it reminds me of every other sci-fi book but at the same time its different because of the way it is presented to us which really engaged me.

The characters in this book wasn’t the best. But I came to like them by the end of this book. 

This book contains some humor here and there. Some of it I came to like but the majority of it just didn’t let with me. 

The writing style here was good, at times it felt like the author knew what words to use to fully grab my attention but at other times the opposite happened. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5