This book review was written by Eugene Kernes
“He lay still and quiet. He absorbed the enveloping darkness, slowly
relaxed his limbs from end to end, eased and regulated his breathing, gradually
cleared his mind of all thought, closed his eyes, and was completely incapable
of getting to sleep.” – Douglas Adams, Chapter 7, Page 505
“He hadn’t realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a
voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had
never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said
something it had never said to him before, which was “yes”” – Douglas Adams,
Chapter 18, Page 541
“”Yes but, Arthur, that’s ridiculous. People think that if you just say ‘hallucinations’ it explains anything you want it to explain and eventually whatever it is you can’t understand will just go away. It’s just a word, it doesn’t explain anything. It doesn’t explain why the dolphins disappeared.”” – Douglas Adams, Chapter 20, Page 554
Is This An Overview?
After hitchhiking across the galaxy, Arthur is no longer
culturally shocked to what the universe thinks.
Arthur is completely bewildered by the fact that the Earth exists, therefore
Arthur does not panic. Apparently, there
was a global hallucination of large yellow spaceships. There appears to be only one other person,
Fenchurch, who knows that the Earth has been destroyed, but those ideas make Fenchurch
seem mentally unfit. As Arthur can
validate the ideas, Arthur falls in love, only to lose Fenchurch’s phone number.
While Arthur is not being puzzled by the existence of the
Earth, Ford has been waiting for the next edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To
The Galaxy to update and remove years of Ford’s work on the Earth entry due to
the nonexistence of the planet. Ford is
surprised by the update, as rather than removing the two words about the Earth,
find that the entry has expanded. As
Ford is hitchhiking across the galaxy to inform Arthur that Earth exists,
Arthur and Fenchurch seek to find what happened to the missing dolphins. Apparently, the dolphins knew something about
Earth.
Caveats?
This book follows mostly Arthur’s adventures on Earth.
