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Life, the Universe and Everything
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams
"HYSTERICAL!"--The Philadelphia InquirerThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vicepresident of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end? Will it end? Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know it--and don't know it!"ADAMS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TREASURES: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading."--The Arizona Daily StarFrom the Paperback edition.
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TieDyeDude
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#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?

AmyG Definitely #1. 2mo
dabbe 1 and 2 for me. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence“ (Carl Sagan). #thecosmosdudeabides 🤩 2mo
WildAlaskaBibliophile All 3 for me! 😀 2mo
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Fortifiedbybooks
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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

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

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 📚👌🏻 11mo
Eggs Perfect 👍🏼 11mo
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GondorGirl
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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. 🥰

Chrissyreadit Happy Birthday! 14mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️ 14mo
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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!

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BC_Dittemore
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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.

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rwmg
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Mehso-so

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.

RamsFan1963 My least favorite book in the series 2y
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rwmg
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rwmg
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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

Andrew65 Love Douglas Adams. 2y
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therubberduckninja
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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.

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PageShifter
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Panpan

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

Andrew65 Doing great, this is not my favourite of the books.👏👏👏 (edited) 2y
RamsFan1963 This is my least favorite book of the series. 2y
PageShifter I am so happy to hear that @Andrew65 and @RamsFan1963! Because I was planning to re-read all five books and was so disappointed with this one 2y
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RamsFan1963
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Mehso-so

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

EadieB @Ramsfan1963 Sorry you were disappointed by this 📖 book! 3y
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vivastory
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Bistromathics is the most powerful computational force known to parascience. A major step up from the Infinite Improbability Drive, Bistromathics is a way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement through space, so it was realised that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
The first nonabsolute number is👇

vivastory the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up, or to the number of people who subsequently join them after the show/match/party/gig, or to the number of people who leave when they see who else has turned up.
The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival,
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vivastory which is now known to be one of those most bizarre of mathematical concepts...The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for. #mathematical #maycharacters @eggs @alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 3y
persephone1408 I love how hitchhikers guide is turning 42 this year... So am I 🖤 3y
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vivastory @persephone1408 I didn't even realize that. I'm 42 right now myself haha 3y
persephone1408 Yes it came out October 12 1979 3y
The_Penniless_Author @persephone1408 I turn 42 this year too! I didn't realize that about Hitchhiker's Guide. That's as good an excuse as any to reread it. 3y
Eggs Love this - perfect 👌🏼 3y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 📚🙌🏻 3y
leah152 Oh I totally forgot about the 42 thing!! I turned 42 almost a month ago too lol 😊 3y
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rabbitprincess
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I liked this more than I did as a teenager, but I still like the first book best.
#ShutdownReadathon book 21

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bhargav
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Boring one in the series!!

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Soubhiville
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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)

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freeatlast1137
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Mehso-so

Arthur and friends attempt to save the universe.

H_SQUARED I absolutely LOVED Hitchhiker‘s Guide and was excited to read his other titles, but unfortunately nothing else really held my interest. 3y
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RamsFan1963
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TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 😊 3y
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DPgirl
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I think its getting there 😁

Libby1 This is fantastic! I‘m reading this book right now. 3y
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sarahlandis
Mehso-so

bleh

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Andno.86
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TheEllieMo
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A pretty accurate description of bowling, I feel!

#Cricket #QuotsySept19 @TK-421

CarolynM Very accurate!😂 5y
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Bookwomble
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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?

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Bookwomble
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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! ☹?☹

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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.

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Brie
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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.

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Confused_child_of_the_universe
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Swe_Eva 😂 5y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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Pickpick

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.

TobeyTheScavengerMonk Dig that cover from the comic book adaptation. 5y
Lindy I don‘t remember the petunias. Definitely due for a reread. 🚀 5y
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Oh Eddy, how‘d you get there

TobeyTheScavengerMonk Just started a revisit of this on audio today! 5y
Confused_child_of_the_universe I‘m reading the whole series for the first time, but I‘m really enjoying it so far. Douglas Adams is hilarious @TobeyTheScavengerMonk 5y
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#Starting Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy 3 on audio and looking forward to the revisit.

#42 #HoopyFrood #Towel

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Corar
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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

Bookgoil Love gummies! 5y
Linsy Love that book! 5y
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MirrorMask
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Heres's a few of my upcoming #Audiobooks on #Libby

#31BookPics @howjessreads

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GidgetsTreasures75
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7-31-18: My 32nd finished book of 2018!! 👍🏼📖#️⃣3️⃣2️⃣

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GidgetsTreasures75
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7-29-18: What 5AM looks like.

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SleepyDragon
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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

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“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

rustoryhuf Don‘t panic. 6y
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TheBookgeekFrau
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This is #AllIAsk 😉

#AdelesMayMashUp Day20

TheWildCard This is one of my all-time favorite series. Towel Day is almost here! #42 6y
TheBookgeekFrau @TheWildCard Oh god, it is! I didn‘t even realize when I made the post 😁 6y
vkois88 👍👍👍 6y
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One, two, three...42?

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rhi.stone
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“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.”

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Andrew65
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Playing catch-up
#QuotsyDec17 #Flight

CarolynM I remember how much I laughed when I first read this line! Still makes me smile. 6y
Andrew65 It does make me laugh when I read it too. @CarolynM 6y
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kwmg40
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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.

CatLass007 Sounds like something I would do. 6y
kwmg40 @CatLass007 It's definitely not the first time I've bought a duplicate! 6y
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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Library catalog asking the big questions...

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

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GondorGirl
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My fiancee's birthday gift finally showed up today. It's the illustrated folio edition of LtUaE. He's a HUGE fan of The Guide and now has 3/5 of these particular volumes. They're so pretty and the covers are glittery. The illustrations are great too.

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readinginthedark
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My turn, yay!!!!

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