What a fantastic book.
This will be short because as I recently learned there are in fact five books in this series so I'll do a comprehensive review when I'm done.
For now, let me just say this series might take its place among out greats. Why?
1. It's funny. Approaching Bart funny.
2. The banter, man. It's fantastic. Very naturalistic dialogue,
2. Most importantly, it asks the most important questions in the universe without any pomp or grandeur. It is the antithesis of It was an Honor; it addresses the same themes with a much lighter approach, and portrays the universe as simultaneously very absurd and very mundane. And there are beautiful undertones of stinging social/human commentary, which continually break through the 'quirky' plot. (I will admit that some moments do verge on the sickeningly quirky, but they're counterbalanced with just as many thoughtful, introspective ones.)
Overall, the best way I can characterize it as that Douglas Adams is a more childish Kurt Vonnegut. And damn, does it work for him.
More to come soon.
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