Illiterarty.com Book reviews and blogs by Bridget

If this was an egg, it would be a curate’s egg.

Here it is, Mostly Harmless, the final book in the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy trilogy... as neatly ties up a huge confusion of space-time anomalies. In the best way it could possibly be done.

The earth was indisputably demolished forever back in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, and Arthur has been a homeless wanderer ever since. Or was the whole thing just mass hallucinations caused by a dead CIA agent in the drinking water? Arthur is back, on earth, six months after it was demolished... and he has a lot of catching up to do.

The third book in the (but by no means the last!), Life, The Universe And Everything follows the adventures of Zaphod, Trillian, Arthur and Ford. Having learned how the universe is governed, the quartet now have an unexpected and even more difficult challenge... saving said universe.

Zaphod, Trillian, Ford and Arthur return to participate in some even more unlikely deep-space situations than those that occurred in the first installment of this trilogy in five parts; The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is the first book within Douglas Adam’s classic and well loved “trilogy in five parts” Hitchhiker’s compendium.