why?? why??? WHY???? (Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams)

Member Name: isobel_j

Product:	Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
Date:	02/08/02 (76 review reads)
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Advantages: funny, wraps up some loose ends

Disadvantages: an anti-climax

'The Hitch Hiker's Guide' - amazing.
'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' - excellent.
'Life, the Universe and Everything' - incredible.
'So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish' - superb.
'Mostly Harmless' - well, that about sums it up. Harmless. All of a sudden it doesn't matter that I've run out of synonyms of 'good.'

Don't get me wrong, it was amusing - in fact, it's probably the funniest yet - but somehow it just didn't live up to expectations. The volume seems to spend the whole of its duration building up to an amazing climax...then just stops. I tried, I really did, but I just couldn't stave off the disappointment that crept in as i closed it. Arthur Dent just didn't have the same realism or credibility, and the fact that there's a lot less of Marvin doesn't help. This was a funny, well-written novel but when one has spent the whole of a book thinking 'how are they going to get out of this one?' and then they don't, there's got to be a sense of anti-climax somewhere. Even if it is in some parallel universe.

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