The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a craving for tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability—and desperately in search of a place to eat.
Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex- president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who's gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android who suffers nothing and no one very gladly. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food (literally) speaks for itself.
Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that the Hitchhiker's Guide deleted the term "Future Perfect" from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!
--back cover
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6 primary books10 released booksThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 9-book series with 6 primary works first released in 30 with contributions by Douglas Adams, Jem Roberts, and 3 others.
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If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with a breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
I think in the past, I've enjoyed The Restaurant at the End of the Universe more than this time, but I'm not sure why. Which is not to say that I didn't have a blast, I just usually have more fun. From the intricate – and death-defying – difficulty of making a good cup of tea; to the extreme lengths some people will go to for a dining experience; to perspective that a little cake can give; to considering what color a wheel should be or whether fire should be nasally-inserted – this book covers all the bases. While still episodic in nature, it seems less so than its predecessor – and far less so than its successor. It's a stronger novel, not quite as funny, but still better than most “funny” or “light” SF than you'll find.
[Gargravarr] had rather liked Zaphod Beeblebrox in a strange sort of way. He was clearly a man of many qualities, even if they were mostly bad ones.
“Poor Arthur, you're not really cut out for this life are you?” [Trillian asked]
“You call this life?”
It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N-N-T'Nix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian “chinanto/mnigs” which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan “tzjin-anthony-ks” which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Another absurdly amazing book from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. The concept of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe absolutely blew me away. So imaginative. And somehow everything makes sense, in a crazy way.
Whatever interesting and funny the first book had, this one haven't at all. The focus of the book is on Beeblebrox, and although I liked him as one of the characters in the first book, making him the main character didn't allured me.
Performed by Martin Freeman. Would have preferred Stephen Fry.
