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Mostly Harmless
 
Mostly Harmless
Author: Douglas Adams

Book Information
Publisher: Harmony
Book Type: Hardcover
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ISBN-13: 9780517577400 - ISBN-10: 0517577402
Publication Date: 10/13/1992
Pages: 277


Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Audio CD (Unabridged)

Book Description:
It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space-time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit and, immediately, all hell breaks loose. Hell takes a number of forms: there is the usual Ford Prefect form of hell, fresh hell in the form of an all-new version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which behaves in an altogether more mysterious, sinister and airborn manner, and a totally unexpected hell that arrives in the form of a teenage girl who utterly startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn't even know he had one. Much as Arthur would love to stay in his rural sandwich-making idyll, he is forced to set off on his travels once again, this time on the back of a mysterious Perfectly Normal Beast. Can he save the Earth from total destruction throughout all dimensional probabilities? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save the Grebulons from completely myopic junked-up idiocy? Can he save his daughter Random from herself? Of course not. He never even works out what is going on, exactly. Will you? Mostly Harmless: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Five: The book that gives a whole new meaning to the word trilogy.

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Top Member Book Reviews

Betsey N. wrote on 5/19/2009...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

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.


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Dana (daedelys) wrote on 8/31/2009...


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.

Anne J. (amjones1) wrote on 12/28/2006...


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

Stephen P. (thelad48) wrote on 8/23/2006...


5th book of Hitchhikers trilogy

Suzan C. (DuoHearts) wrote on 12/2/2005...


Always good British humor.


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