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Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5)
Mostly Harmless - Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5
Author: Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings.
PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780345418777
ISBN-10: 0345418778
Publication Date: 2/1/2000
Pages: 240
Rating:
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4 stars, based on 241 ratings
Publisher: Del Rey
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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reviewed Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5) on
Helpful Score: 2
Unlike the rest of Douglas Adams' great work this one is a bit of a snooze. The plot line is pretty random and everywhere and only comes together for a bit of excitement in the last 20 pages. Skip it.
daedelys avatar reviewed Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5) on + 1218 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
As much as I wanted to finish out this series, I just couldnt do it. After the first three stories, it really went downhill and I kept finding that I was having a better time daydreaming than paying attention to the story. I have too many books to read to waste my time on something, that I felt, was overly-hyped.
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reviewed Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5) on + 42 more book reviews
This book changed my life.
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As hilarious as the rest of his books.
reviewed Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5) on
A wonderful conclusion to a wonderful saga!
pibblegrl avatar reviewed Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5) on + 64 more book reviews
Loved it!
reviewed Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5) on + 3 more book reviews
Great book! Always funny.
reviewed Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5) on + 3 more book reviews
amusing, but definitely not as good as the triology.
reviewed Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5) on + 813 more book reviews
I gave this book five stars. Just kidding! Check this out! If you take Spaceballs, Monsters versus Aliens, Player Piano, and Catch 22, throw them into a blender and purée, you might just end up with this book. This wacky look at intergalactic space travel, zany situations, and preposterous characters permeates the ephemeral, volatile fabric of this convoluted, sometimes witty, often disjointed fabrication. Still its mostly harmless. Like the guy who fell asleep in class and was prodded by his neighbor with the answer to the teachers question about transendentalism; who jumped up and yelled 42; youll discover the answer to life, the universe and everything.

The improbability that someone would write this book is two to the power twenty-five thousand to one against and falling.
The improbability that someone would publish it is two to the power fifty thousand to one against and falling.
The improbability that someone would buy it is two to the power seventy-five thousand to one against and falling.
The improbability that someone would actually read it is two to the power one hundred thousand to one against and falling.
The improbability that a reviewer would place it on a must read list is two to the power of infinity minus one to one against and falling.
reviewed Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 5) on + 495 more book reviews
5th book of Hitchhikers trilogy
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Always good British humor.

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