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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

(Gollancz)

By Douglas Adams

(260)

| Hardcover | 9780575074866

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Book Description

When all the questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains: Where shall we have dinner? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the obvious answer, as it provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once, there is no morning afteContinue

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Better structured, wittier and funnier than the first! And some really hilarious theories! Great Terry Jones' foreword, too!

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maCmq said on Jun 19, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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Very funny, especially the foreword by Terry Jones!

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cristina said on Apr 26, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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Six rows of nine is 42...I am frankly, fucking flabbergasted!!

It made me feel like if I were "starving to the bone".

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Turpentine said on Aug 19, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Not as good as the first one, but very entertaining and well written nonetheless.

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Mic Tonutti said on Apr 4, 2012 | Add your feedback

Not that good

(I have just revisited this through the decent audiobook version read by Martin Freeman. I wish Stephen Fry had done it instead.)
While a good author, Douglas Adams seems to have been dead set on ruining every single joke from the original story, once again by reorganizing the whole thing so that t ... (continue)

(I have just revisited this through the decent audiobook version read by Martin Freeman. I wish Stephen Fry had done it instead.)
While a good author, Douglas Adams seems to have been dead set on ruining every single joke from the original story, once again by reorganizing the whole thing so that the jokes are explained before they have been presented.
The entire story is, again, completely reorganized, seemingly at random. Perhaps there is some reason behind this, to distinguish it from the original story or to prepare for some future events, or some other reason which I can't figure out.
In fact, this book and the preceding one (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), together cover the same overall set of events as the two seasons of the original radio series, only in a different order.
In this book, he also manages to include original dialogue from the radio series (upon entering Milliways, if you want to verify) in a way that makes it utterly incomprehensible within the context of the book, having already changed the events preceding this dialogue into something completely different than it was in the original radio series.
There are fewer irrelevant tangents in this book than in the preceding one, which is nice.
Nevertheless, once again if you haven't listened to the radio series and aren't planning to, this is a perfectly good, kind of vaguely comedic, sci-fi adventure that is certainly worth reading, at least once. If you are familiar with the original, don't bother with this.

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Hans said on Jul 18, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback