I haven't read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in almost 20 years and yet I still think of it as one of the best science fiction series I've ever read. ♥️
@Jacel That's okay, it's not for everyone. The books are and were quirky, and the first was definitely better than the following two.
I just thoroughly enjoyed the world as presented, and the style of humor in writing. :3
@Jacel ...there was a 4 and 5 to the HGTTG?! o.=.o
@Jacel ..............I don't know how I never knew those books existed. Wow. o.=.o;
My memories of the first three are so fond that I might not read those two, given that review. >..>
@Jacel @mawr I think a lot of that is attributable to DA writing them basically under duress, especially Mostly Harmless. he was extremely frustrated at the lack of response to his other fiction projects, and the various multimedia/game things he was trying to do, and HHGTTG was pretty much a proven cash cow. he deliberately ended MH in a "fuck it I AM DONE WITH THIS UNIVERSE IT IS DONE NO MORE" kind of way.
@Jacel @mawr and for ghu's sake don't bother with "And Another Thing," which was written by someone else as an homage to DA using some of the notes from "The Salmon of Doubt," but manages to be *amazingly* tedious to read. like, there's funny parts, but most of it is "somebody obviously trying much too hard to write like Douglas Adams and failing."