Perhaps some time last year or maybe even the year before I started reading through the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (in five parts). The first book is pretty good, and parts of the second one are ok. But ultimately it's a bit of a mess of a series. It's very disjointed after the characters go their separate ways. Some of them you never find out what happens to. Poor Marvin lives for millions of years until he's killed off. Book four tells the story of the girl who realised the meaning of life, the universe and everything at the beginning of the first book, only you barely get any story at all. She has an affair with Arthur and forgets to hit the ground when falling. And after the fourth book you never hear about her again. It's all over the place in both time and space, with no explanation of how things came to be that way. At the very end I basically felt exactly the same as the alien - welp, and put on a little light music.
I mean I really like Douglas Adams quirky writing style, but his story telling could have done with a bit of polishing.
I did snapshot a couple of funnies though. This was a rant by Agrajag, a being that kept being reincarnated to be killed over and over again, either directly or indirectly by Arthur. One time he was reincarnated as a bowl of petunias ;)
And I know they had floppy disks back in 1984, but he was *totally* predicting usb memory sticks ;)
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