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Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams

Readers of books one and two of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series know the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.  What they don’t know, is the question.

Well, you won’t get it here.

You will however, face a war-faring race of Krikkitmen and learn to fly.

They book starts off on Prehistoric Earth, a few years after the second book ended.  Arthur and Ford have parted ways, but lo and behold, here is Ford again, recounting how he went mad in Africa, thought he was a lemon, found a lake that thought it was a gin & tonic and jumped in and out of it, and became responsible for the giraffe’s long neck.   

BUT!  Here he is back in what will eventually be England, searching for Arthur because they are getting the Hell off of Prehistoric Earth.  Yay!

And their ticket?  A velvet paisley-covered Chesterfield sofa.

And where will it take them?

“The middle of the pitch at Lord’s Cricket Ground, St. John’s Wood, London, toward the end of the last Test Match of the Australian series in the year 198-, with England needing only twenty-eight runs to win.”

This whole build up to landing in the middle of the Cricket Ground, has been Ford trying to explain to Arthur the eddies in the space-time continuum.  Of course, Arthur doesn’t get this.

But I don’t get cricket.  So suddenly I’m Arthur, who has just decided to go mad and live with it.  Which he finds to work for him.  Since there are cricket jokes throughout the whole book, I just go with it, too, and it does, indeed, work out well.

As in, hilarious.

And we have only just finished chapter two.

 
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If you like this book/author, you might like:

Lamb by Christopher Moore
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Slaughterhouse-Five  by Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Good Fairies of New York  by Martin Millar
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams  by Nick Webb
Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Neil Gaiman

Other works by Douglas Adams:

(my reviews are in blue)

The Increasingly Inaccurately Named Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy 
     The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
     The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
     So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
     Mostly Harmless

The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

With John Lloyd:

The Meaning of Liff
The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren’t Any Words for Yet–But There Ought to Be

With Mark Carwardine:

Last Chance to See