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I think this one was my favorite of the first three. The idea of time travel always gets me.

This might be where I bail. I just don‘t really care about Arthur Dent or any of his friends, regardless of what planet they are on.

A comfort re-read (or re-listen) for me. Appropriate for cricket season!
I do just love this series, I love the humour and the twists. It‘s so creative and never fails to make me happy.

#TLT @dabbe

1. Space, the universe, etc.

2. The ability to completely dismiss evidence in favor of blind faith, greed, or selfishness

3. Animal intelligence

What are you curious about, @kwmg40 @wildalaskabibliophile @coffeenbooks?

After thinking we had a gas leak only to find out it's probably a dead animal in our crawl space, I need something fun to distract me from all of the reality this Monday has caused. #SciFiSummer

It may be time to reread some Douglas Adams #TemptingTitles #WithLife @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I just want to take a minute to say thank you for all the birthday wishes! It's been lovely to get so many #LitsyLove cards and messages from online friends.

And 42 is a spectacularly bookish age to turn. 🥰

I‘m a bit surprised by all the lukewarm reviews about Life, the Universe, and Everything. I think it‘s just as good as the first two. In fact, I may even like it more than The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

The plot is more convoluted than the first two, but plot has never been the main focus of The Hitchhikers Guide. It‘s zany, hilarious, philosophical, and just plain fun.

Martin Freeman narrates the Audible version and does great!

My last few audiobooks have been… weightier. Figured I‘d go with something light this time.

I‘ve noticed people saying this is the worst out of the bunch. Of course, a subpar Hitchhiker‘s Guide book is still better than a lot of stuff out there. 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, I listened to the first two on Audible… I guess it‘s been a couple year now, and naturally have read all the books in a past life.

I always look forward to the wisdom of Douglas Adams.

Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are enlisted by Slartibartfast to find a way to foil the plans of the Elders of Krikit to destroy the rest of the universe.

Some amusing parts, some such as the piling up of weird names get repetitive and tedious after a while, and pull it down to a so-so.

#sunshinewellness #mycover

I will read the two Douglas Adams books today but I haven't decided what order to read the other two in yet.

#WeekendReading
@Andrew65

While this may not be the strongest of the “trilogy,” it contains some of my favourite, utterly absurd moments. The plot is a little weaker than in previous books, but I still love it.

I can't say if this was really succesful re-read but well. This had some fun moments.

Characters were great again and overall this had some hilarious moments! I still dislike the writing style, it makes me to really struggle and it takes away my pleasure for reading. I love the humor though. Plot was again weak, maybe weaker than the first two installments'.

Book 4 during #novelnovember

Sadly, I can't say I cared much for this one. After the wacky tone set in the first two books, this one plods along at an excruciatingly slow pace, jumbled with lots of pointless set pieces that don't advance the plot. It felt like Adams was aiming for a more mainstream sf adventure, with the humor almost drained away. 3 🛸🛸🛸
3rd book finished for #SuperSeptember readathon @Andrew65 @EadieB

I liked this more than I did as a teenager, but I still like the first book best.
#ShutdownReadathon book 21

Boring one in the series!!

My local Litsy club, #LitsyATXReadersSociety, reads to a different theme each month. For February our theme is “A Book Whose Universe You‘d Like To Live In.”

What bookish universes are your favorite AND why?

(Tagged this book because the Hitchhiker universe is fun and silly)

Arthur and friends attempt to save the universe.

📖 Tagged plus So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish.
📖 No gifts bought or received last week.
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

@audraelizabeth @Buechersuechtling @ReadingIsMyHobby @Onceuponatime @TheBookDream @Daisey @Bookishlie @Sharpeipup @Cuilin @ReadingFeedsTheSoul @Lucy_Anywhere @Onepageatatime88

I think its getting there 😁

bleh

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A pretty accurate description of bowling, I feel!

#Cricket #QuotsySept19 @TK-421

Although I had a rocky relationship with the first third of this third book in a five book trilogy, the second and third thirds were smoother and less jarring. I still could have done without "bistromathics", but felt Arthur was well-handled, and his character somewhat developed beyond "clueless tea-deficient ape descendant". Trillian was underused, but less so than in the previous books. All in all, I didn't stray too far from interested: 4?

Faith and perseverance rewarded - after about 60 pages of feeling "meh", the story starts to coalesce into some sort of oxymoronic vague-coherence and I'm engaged in the following 40 pages. Half way through, so let's hope Adams stays on track for the remainder! ☹?☹

I read the trilogy back in the '80s, off the back of the radio and TV shows. Rereading them now, I'm reliving how much I loved Hitchhiker and Restaurant, and how LtUaE felt like shtick. Much of the joy of reading Adams is his subversion of the reader's expectation for how a sentence should end, based on how it started. Having got used to that again, I'm feeling a bit meh about this. I'll keep going, though, Adams deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Arthur Dent and his companions try to avoid total annihilation once again after the inhabitants on planet Krikkit decide to blow up the universe! Some funny bits in this third volume of Hitchhiker‘s.

#mistake #quotsyapr19 @TK-421

In this 3rd Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, Trillian saves all of existence. Granted, she's not in it very much. The vast majority of this one is Arthur, Ford, and Slartibartfast hilariously failing to save existence over and over again.

Also an Italian bistro/starship! Arthur learns to fly! And an ill-fated bowl of petunias makes a surprising reappearance!

A blast to revisit! Martin Freeman does a fantastic job narrating on audio.

Oh Eddy, how‘d you get there

#Starting Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy 3 on audio and looking forward to the revisit.

#42 #HoopyFrood #Towel

Max is listening to Life, the Universe and Everything while snacking on gummy worms and red Gatorade (hence the red mustache) for the #readathon. He wanted me to post this picture for the “A Book and a Snack” mini-challenge. #RATbooksnack #deweysreadathon

Heres's a few of my upcoming #Audiobooks on #Libby

#31BookPics @howjessreads

7-31-18: My 32nd finished book of 2018!! 👍🏼📖#️⃣3️⃣2️⃣

7-29-18: What 5AM looks like.

1. Hitchhiker's
2. MASH
3. Nope
4. Breakfast for dinner
5. Definitely, especially science and science fiction. He texted me a few days ago to ask if he had loaned me his Complete Sagan. He was reorganizing his bookcase and couldn't find it. I don't have it, so I'll find out when I call Sunday if he ever found it.
@jesshowbooks #friyayintro

“I wasn‘t talking about my #towel…We‘ve established that it isn‘t mine. It‘s just that the bag into which I was putting the towel which is not mine is also not mine, though it is extraordinarily similar. Now personally I think that is extremely odd, especially as the bag was one I made myself on prehistoric Earth. These are also not my stones…I was making a collection of interesting stones and these are clearly very dull ones.” #QuotsyMay18

This is #AllIAsk 😉

#AdelesMayMashUp Day20

One, two, three...42?

“Arthur shook his his head and sat down. He looked up. “I thought you must be dead...” he said simply. “So did I for a while,” said Ford, “and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.”

#quotsydec17 @TK-421 #flight

Playing catch-up
#QuotsyDec17 #Flight

In the home stretch of Dewey's #readathon now. Despite having two copies of this book (how did that happen?), I am listening to a library e-audiobook, with Martin Freeman narrating.

Library catalog asking the big questions...

Continuing to avoid interaction by plugging my headphones into my phone while I do laundry...it works for short spurts of time. 😆🙈 #LitsyPartyOfOne