So Long and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams

For those of you who have never read 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series', here is a brief character summary for the following review - Arthur Dent - Last male Human Being and hero of the Hitchhiker books. Tricia McMillan - Last female Human Being and only rational, intelligent person on the ship. Nicknamed Trillian. Ford Prefect - Arthur's best friend (who turns out to be an alien very early on in the first book) and field researcher for the guide. Zaphod Beeblebrox - Ex-President of the Galaxy with massive ego. And two heads and three arms. And, as it is only really necessary to know a little bit about the first book to ...  Read the complete review

A very different, but interesting direction for what was originally the final volume in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" of four books, So Long and Thanks For All the Fish does not deal so much with adventure, life-threatening situations and hilariously inventive alien species so much as a return home for the series' protagonist, Arthur Dent; the last-but-one human before the confusing events herein, and romance. Firstly, an apology for writing three reviews in one day, but I wanted to get this sorted while the ending was still clear in my head! Secondly, I would wholeheartedly reccomend that anyone interested in this series of ...  Read the complete review

Well this is the 4th book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, so it’s a bit of an oddity already, What’s even odder is that Hitchhikers is primarily known as a lunatic spin on sci-fi conventions and yet this is more of a romantic novel. No come back, it may be romance but the mind that thought up the fact that the Earth is a giant computer run by mice trying to find the question of life the universe and everything to which the answer is 42 isn’t going to write a conventional Barbara Cartland bodice ripper. The book starts with our hero Arthur Dent being deposited back on Earth after years travelling the vast reaches ...  Read the complete review

This is a confused end to the Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy trilogy (ignore the fact that this is the fourth book!). Plus there is the fifth book in the trilogy that was written much later. Adams story line on this series has always been a bit confused and winding and fans of this style will not be dissapointed at all. Everything seems to tie togethor okay in this book and it does seem to be a better ending to this series than the next book. There are some great bits in this book, Arthur and Fenchurch for one, it is almost hard to believe that this is the same guy who was lying in the mud under a bulldozer only a couple of years ago. More ...  Read the complete review

The title is the last message the dolphins [the second most intelligent species on Earth after the Mice] sent to the humans before Earth was destroyed. Arthur Dent returns, not just to the series but also to a small blue-green planmet somewhere in the western arm of the milky way. Because of the mice, you see. If you haven't read the first 3 books in the series this won't make much sense, so there's no point in buying the book. Ford Prefect has a small part in the story, and the only scene which is really funny. Marvin appears just long enough to be written out, but Zaphod and Trillian are nowhere to be seen. This pretty much sums the ...  Read the complete review