Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams
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Mostly Harmless

Author: Douglas Adams

Narrator: Martin Freeman

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/03/2006

Synopsis

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes 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’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one.

Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter, Random, from herself? Of course not. He never works out exactly what is going on. Will you?

About The Author

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and educated at Cambridge. He was the author of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, including The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless. His other works include Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul; The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd); and Last Chance to See (with Mark Carwardine). His last book was the bestselling collection The Salmon of Doubt, published posthumously in May 2002.Martin Freeman is an English actor. He is known for his roles as John in Love Actually, BBC's Golden Globe–winning comedy The Office, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He also garnered acclaim for his performance in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of The Hobbit.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf

The original trilogy would definitively have been enough Arthur Dents´ journey forcefully continues, including making fun of topics like Astrology It´s funny the first time but has no potential for more and deeper gags, because ridiculing it is so widespread. New management That´s a better one, espe......more

Goodreads review by Henry

The Milky Way Galaxy is in a state of confusion the dozen Universes, ( you didn't know there are more than one?) have collided into each other. Nothing is as it was, no wonder historians quit, what's the point, everything keeps on changing since history is so fluid. Tricia McMillan (Trillian , in an......more

Goodreads review by Jon

Mostly Harmless was, for many people, a disappointing end to a fantastic series. Adams admitted that he was having a "bad year" when he wrote this book, and it shows: the usual humor and manic pacing are largely gone, replaced by long tracts about actual theoretical science (as opposed to the lunati......more

Goodreads review by Nina (ninjasbooks)

It’s been a while since I read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy so it was nice to read about the universe where everything can and does happen. Had some laughs here, and that’s always appreciated!......more

Quotes

“Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.”—New York Times Book Review


“It is Mr. Adams’s genius to hurl readers into a plot that seems to go everywhere and nowhere, then suddenly drop the pieces into place, click, click, click, like tumblers in a lock. . . . Delightful.”—Baltimore Sun

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