Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams Reviews

This, the final, enticing instalments of Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series stands very much apart from the earlier books. Whilst it retains Adams' sharp wit and intelligent story telling, it is lacking some of the friendly "togetherness" feel of, particularly, the first three books of the ...  Read the complete review

"Mostly Harmless," once again taking the title from a memorable concept in the first book, occurs an unspecified several years after the events of the last book and sees the "thirty-ish, tall and never quite at ease with himself" last human survivor Arthur Dent living the simple life of a sandwich maker on a planet not ...  Read the complete review

Douglas Adams' Hitch-Hiker's Guide 'trilogy' entertained and inspired me, and I was wary to read this final instalment due to reviews on the internet which suggested it was of poor quality and may hunder my enjoyment of the series. The fifth and final book chronicling the experiences of Arthur Dent and his less human comrades does ...  Read the complete review

'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 ...  Read the complete review

I read in the paper that before his untimely death Douglas Adams had been struggling for 11 years on and off to write the 6th and as it proved final book in the Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. On his PC were numerous unfinished drafts none of which he was happy with – and I believe that a version of these, still unfinished, will be ...  Read the complete review

Mostly Harmless is the fifth and final book in the "Hitchhiker" series.Although not as thin on laughs as its predecessor, "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish," this book doesn't have the nonstop hilarity that made Adams a bestselling author. My favorite gag in the book centered on the Grebulons, a group of aliens that ...  Read the complete review

This book was a real dissapointment as far as the series as a whole goes. You keep waiting for the story to get going and get itself back on track and it does not. There are the usual funny bits that help to make reading it worthwhile. But these tend to be few and far between, on the whole I would rather not have read this book. ...  Read the complete review