Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide Series #5) [NOOK Book]

Good!

This book is an awesome climax to the series. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves science fiction or comedy. Douglass Adams should know how much I love this book.

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Mostly Harmless 5

Final book and concluding the Hitchhiker's series from across the galaxy.

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hopefully Adams has a day job

The main characters of the story Mostly Harmless are Tricia McMillian, Author Dent, and Ford Prefect. They are all over the universe at the beginning of the book. Tricia is in New York trying to get a job as an anchorperson in the major U.S. broadcasting company. She doesn¿t get the job and goes back to London and her anchor job there. She gets abducted by aliens and taken to the tenth planet in our solar system Rupert. They took her there so she can set up a map of the solar system so they can check their horoscopes. Ford Prefect works for a company called The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. He goes to the building to talk to his boss and finds out that the Guide has been bought out by a company called Infinidim. They almost fire him, but he knocks his boss out and goes down to the main computer and gives himself a lot of money in his expense account. He gets attacked and jumps out the window. He falls and then grabs on to the robot he has with him and goes into the thirteenth floor. He finds an orb thing that is the new guide and ships it to himself, but where Author is. Author has traveled from planet to planet searching for one that is remotely close to Earth, because the Earth was blown up. He finally ended up on a Planet close to Earth and decided to stay there. He becomes a sandwich maker and then Trillian his ex-wife comes and tells him he has a daughter named Random who is very moody. She gets very angry with her mom because she thought her mom was just dropping out in the middle of nowhere to let her die. Author gets the packed from Ford but doesn¿t want to open it but Random does. Author leaves the package out in the open to show that he trusts her and she takes it to the forest to open it. Author chases after her but can¿t keep up. She finds a cave and opens it. The black orb comes out of the box and changes into a bird. The bird says it can take her anywhere anytime she wants. She says she wants to go to Earth and then Ford comes down in a space ship and she attacks him and takes the ship. Author comes to the cave and finds Ford and they head to Earth. When they get there all of the characters come together and the planet gets blown up. This book was an okay book. It was interesting how the characters finely come together at the end and get blown up but that was the only interesting thing about it. The rest of the book really sucked because they spread out what was happening to the characters.

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Love it

This is my favorite in the hitchiker series.

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Great Book!

Love it

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Why must it end!!!

Awesome, but then it just end?

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The Last In The Series, Boo Hoo

The book ¿Mostly Harmless¿ by Douglas Adams is the last book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. This book sums up all of ¿the crew¿s¿ experiences together and finally gives it an ending that I would say suits the book. It all starts out when Trillian gets lost in a time warp and Arthur Dent crashes his ship on a Bob fearing planet. Yes I know it sounds strange that a whole planet fears Bob¿s but that¿s just the humor in the book. The whole book makes as much sense as that first part that I told you about so its not even worth it trying to make sense of everything. Believe me, I¿ve tried this and after using up a whole summer on it I gave up. This overall is a very funny and interesting book and really gets you thinking about the world around you.

The best of the bunch

I think Mostly Harmless is the best book in the Hitchhiker's series (except maybe the first). Of course it is hilarious, like all the others, but this book is a little deeper and a little darker. It conveys raw emotion and philosophical ideas, more so than the previous books, yet still maintains the same zaniness we love. Random is one of my favorite characters in the series. There is a new robot character in this book that is hilarious - he is the antithesis of Marvin (he is chronically happy rather than depressed - hilarious). I thought the ending was fitting. It does leave you with unanswered questions, but isn't that what it's all about?

Sad End to the best series ever.

A timeless clasic finnaly ends here. At first I thought this was the best in the Hitchhikers Guide, but once I got to the last 3 chapters I realized that there was to much of a story to finish in 3 chapters! Once I finished the book I fealt like Marvin 'Very deppressed'. I was very dissaponted in this book, but all but the end were good and had lots of funny moments such as, A Credit Card bill, Ford's opinion of Geese and Arthur meeting his kid.

NO NO NO NO NO

This book is a definite YES. It IS AS GOOD as the rest of the series. Leaving off on SOATFATF would be BAD. Adams is not disappointed or bored. NO to negative reviews.

I'm Like Arthur

In this case, I'm like Arthur. This, the fifth -- and, in my opinion, darkest -- book of the Hitchhiker's 'trilogy', is one of the most confusing books I've ever read. However, it is also very good and is true to Adams' form. But, like Arthur, I never quite figured out what was going on. Random ticked me off, and the fact that Zaphod failed to appear except in Tricia's memories of him was kind of disappointing. Overall, though, this book was quite good, and I would read it again and again...but maybe not in that order...

We are Mostly Harmless

If you read the series out of order, the first part doesn't make much sense, but who cares. I think that this exceptional piece of work is the hardest to understand and leaves much unanswered. I think that we should start a massive campaign for another book.

Mostly Harmless...to the end.

Well I just finished this book and must say that, though I caught myself laughing aloud many times (thanks to Adams satiristic writing abilities), this book had only two things going for it...1)the closure that we avid Hitchhikers fans wanted and b) Adams satiristic writting abilities. This book is reminisent of the first books in its hummor but gets a liittle bogged down in the storyline, aside from that there is a totaly new way to look - oh just read the book for all I bloody well care, and decide for yourself!

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