Product Description

Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams…

If you’ve done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe?

Which is exactly what the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There’s just the small matter of escaping the Vogons, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and teaching a space ship how to make a proper cup of tea.

And did anyone actually make a reservation?

Volume Two in the Trilogy of Five

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15352 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 9999 pages

About the Author

Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptation, comic book and bath towel.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's book was published 30 years ago on 12 October 1979 and its phenomenal success sent the book straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List. In 1984 Douglas Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. His series has sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia and was also a best seller in German, Swedish and many other languages.

Douglas lived with his wife and daughter in California, where he died suddenly in 2001.

Customer Reviews

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
I have read all Douglas Adams's books and every one has provided endless laughter... and astonishing imagination. One of the best authors EVER!

Great stuff!
At 24 years old I have very recently stumbled across the Hitchikers series, and boy, what a find it really was! This, being the second in the series, for me, is better than the first (although, without the first, this one will make no sense to you at all!).

I don't want to go on about the plot of the book, you can find that out for yourself, but I think that is is suffice to say that Douglas Adams' mind must have been a very interesting place! Quite where he got some of his ideas, I will never be able to understand, but they are amazingly good fun and a delight to read.

Be prepared to have some of those 'laugh out loud' moments, causing those around you to look at you like some kind of looney. If you enjoyed the first book, then get this one, I can assure you the same sort of enjoyment from this one. If you haven't read the first one, READ IT, and then read this.

Onto book three...

Not your average meal out
I can now confirm that whatever version of The Hitchhiker's Guide that appears in my head it's not the books. I think I've deluded myself that after a 16 plus years gap that I'd actually read them rather than had a mangled version of half listened too radio plays and TV series with a little new film mixed in. So after getting over that I found The Restaurant at the End of the Universe quite familiar but also very refreshing.

Beyond the two key moments of the book, one that involves the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, there is a weaving of something bigger that involves Zaphod and his brains, which might hopefully explains why he stole the spaceship Heart of Gold in the first place.

As I'm book two and still on familiar territory I'm getting the feeling that for Adams plot wasn't the important factor, as you could boil it down those two main set pieces, but more the language and the playing with humanity and our view of ourselves.

The humour and there are lot of funny moments at times comes from how stupid we are. We being everyone in galaxy it seems. Though saying that we're not important and you realise that when you read The Guide's entry on The Universe - some information to help you live in it. Boiling down to it's vast so vast in fact that anything in it so small that it's not worth mentioning. So nothing anyone does is very important.

But what they do is fascinating especially the way that Adams writes it. Not only has he given us a great cast in Arthur, Trillian, Ford, Zaphod and Marvin he's placed them in some in some bizarre and mind altering situations and seeing how they cope. And Arthur's request for a cup of Tea at the beginning is so not the answer to anything.