End of Mostly Harmless - little confused

evil-monkey

hmmmmm...just finished the fifth book there...

I'd have to say that Mostly Harmless is probably my least favourite of the five. maybe i've missed something , but what is the very last paragraph about??

Spoiler

are the guys from Rupert somehow connected to the Vogons??

seagull

Describing it as your least favourite is incredibly generous. My verdict was that Adams and/or his publishers must have been desperate for cash, and prepared to produce any drivel. The hardness of the paper renders it unsuitable for the task appropriate to the quality of the writing.

evil-monkey

seagull wrote: »

Describing it as your least favourite is incredibly generous. My verdict was that Adams and/or his publishers must have been desperate for cash, and prepared to produce any drivel. The hardness of the paper renders it unsuitable for the task appropriate to the quality of the writing.

So you didn't like it either then??

Valmont

I didn't like it either, thought it was a real sell-out.

deadhead13

I'm in shock - didn't even know the 5th book existed.

hacx

We're gonna have a new on on our laps soon. By eoin colfer. How he's gonna explain the mess of the last book, I'll never know.

Queen-Mise

I think when you get past the third book, reason and analysis of how good or bad they are goes out the window.
Not so sure though about the editor's pushing him, weren't Dick Gentley's Holistic detective coming out at this stage - although don't quote me on my timing.


On a shameless change of topic:
My favourite bit of them all is in the Retaurant at the End of Universe and the cow comes over to the table and starts recommending parts of himself for dinner. The amount of jokes that have come from that over the years are countless.

hacx

My favourite bit is bit in Mostly Harmless about the robot who was programed to pick up herring sandwiches for eternity. Or the bit with Agrajag in the Cathedral Of HAte.

Gaspode

My favourite thing was deciding I wouldnt read it again!

trout

It really was forgettable ... thankfully.