The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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Average rating3.6
If you love DA it will fill you with such sadness that he died way too early. If you know him peripherally then give this collection a miss. Three stars are the average between the five I would give with my heart and brain, and the one for the very uneven collection of material.
An excellent overview of what made Douglas Adams such a unique observer of life. I'd go as far to say, if you have never read anything else written by him, this would be a great place to start.
This book is a combination collection of essays/speeches, short stories, and the last incomplete novel of Douglas Adams. Reading it made me sad all over again that the world lost such a brilliant mind so suddenly and tragically. In this collection, you can feel his passionate love for the environment and technology and his hopes for their coexistence. You also get a healthy smattering of what might have been in had he lived to follow through on some of his ideas. I've put off reading this book for a while because I knew it would make me sad, but I'm glad to have read it.
