I love Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy, every version of it that I have experienced—I have
unfortunately never heard the radio shows.
While I love these stories, I was extremely hesitant to read this
continuation to the trilogy. Could it
really be Hitchhiker’s without Douglas Adams’ craziness? Well, after finally getting over my prejudice
I can say that part six of three is fun but that something just didn’t feel
right to me.
Picking up where Mostly
Harmless left off, Earth is about to be obliterated, again, when Arthur,
Trillain, Ford, and Random are put into a virtual reality to live out their
life before they die. The hitchhiker’s
guide to the galaxy mark 2 that brought them to Earth was able to do this for
over a hundred virtual years before having to shut down, it’s energy
sapped. After they get back to reality,
Zaphod improbably comes in the nick of time, with his heads now separated. This makes him simultaneously smarter and
dumber, making escape unlikely. Despite Zaphod’s
ineptness, Bowerick Wowbagger, the immortal on a mission to insult everyone in
the universe, rescues all of them.
After leaving Earth, the group is given almost no time to
breathe before they are off on another adventure, this time in a dark matter
space ship that formally belonged to Thor.
Their mission now is to save the last colony of Earthlings from
annihilation by the Vogons and along the way they meet gods, fall in love,
hate, despair, whatever, with themselves and others.
So if you got through that muddled explanation without
crossing your eyes, you’re doing well and might enjoy this book. Colfer definitely brings a nice level of
zaniness to the table and stays true to the characters. While reading it I laughed out loud several
times, but it still didn’t seem weird enough.
Maybe I’m just being picky. I
would recommend this to anyone that enjoys the original series; it has the
right spirit. When I am done with my
giant ‘to read’ pile I will reread HG2G to see if I’m just imagining how crazy
it was.
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