Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

Title: Life, the Universe and Everything

Author: Douglas Adams

Series: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #3

Genre: Science Fiction

Summary:  Arthur, Zaphod, Tirllian and Marvin have just seen a car so black that their eyes can’t even make out the shape of it. They decide to take it for a ride, and that’s where their problems start. In this book there is a spaceship with the worst people from a certain planet, a red chesterfield style sofa, prehistoric earth and Lords Cricket Ground.

What’s Good About It: The randomness of it. It’s so bonkers, it’s great!

What Wasn’t So Good: Nothing, it’s amazing!

Rating: *****

Further Reading Suggestions

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide #2) by Douglas Adams

Review by Zachary Salmon, 8BW

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams

Title: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Author: Douglas Adams

Series: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #2

Genre: Science Fiction

Summary: What is the answer to life, the universe and everything? That is the queation that has plagued the minds of the greatest philosophers in the galaxy until they finally decided that enough was enough and they needed the answer now. So they decided to build a super computer that was more powerful than any other in existence, but there was a flaw in the great plan; the answer was meaningless. They needed to find out what the question was. So the Earth was created.

What’s Good About It: The craziness of it and the intricity of the plot. Along with the new characters which had a lot of depth to them and the storyline.

What Wasn’t So Good: Some bits in it are hard to keep track of but apart from that it was great.

Rating: ****

Further Reading Suggestions

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish by Douglas Adams

Review by Zachary Salmon, 8BW