Search - Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide, Bk 6)

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.

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 it’s “mostly harmless.” Like the guy who fell asleep in class and was prodded by his neighbor with the answer to the teacher’s question about transendentalism; who jumped up and yelled “42”; you’ll 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.”

As much as I wanted to finish out this series, I just couldn’t 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.

The fifth book in the in-aptly named Hitchhikers trilogy. Extremely funny!