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Book Reviews of Life, the Universe, and Everything

Life, the Universe, and Everything
Life the Universe and Everything
Author: Douglas Adams
ISBN-13: 9781574534832
ISBN-10: 1574534831
Publication Date: 12/10/2001
Edition: Unabridged
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Publisher: Audio Literature
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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7 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

reviewed Life, the Universe, and Everything on + 8 more book reviews
Wonderful, great series. Can't wait to see the movie but I' sure it won't be as good as the book.
jeffp avatar reviewed Life, the Universe, and Everything on + 201 more book reviews
Another classic by Douglas Adams. Excellent!
reviewed Life, the Universe, and Everything on + 48 more book reviews
Hilarious!
pibblegrl avatar reviewed Life, the Universe, and Everything on + 64 more book reviews
Loved it!
reviewed Life, the Universe, and Everything 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 Life, the Universe, and Everything on + 4 more book reviews
This series is PHENOMENAL! Not for light readers, it's one that pays off in the end. Douglas Adams weaves a story like NONE I've ever read. He can start a thread in a story, and catch it back up to tie it up neatly four books later, and have used every word until that point to help tie it up which creating new threads in those same words that he'll tie up in other books the same neat and mind blowing way.

It's funny, explaining the book is a lot like reading it... nonsense that makes sense.
amjones1 avatar reviewed Life, the Universe, and Everything on + 79 more book reviews
The third book in the in-aptly named Hitchhikers trilogy, which contains at least five books. Very funny parody of science fiction, can easily be enjoyed by non-science fiction readers as well.