The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.
Among Arthur’s motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and expert contributor to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed ex-president of the galaxy; Tricia McMillan, a fellow Earth refugee who’s gone native (her name is Trillian now); and Marvin, the moody android. Their destination? The ultimate hot spot for an evening of apocalyptic entertainment and fine dining, where the food speaks for itself (literally).
Will they make it? The answer: hard to say. But bear in mind that The Hitchhiker’s Guide deleted the term “Future Perfect” from its pages, since it was discovered not to be!
“What’s such fun is how amusing the galaxy looks through Adams’s sardonically silly eyes.”—Detroit Free Press
- Pages
- 205
- First published
- October 12, 1980
- Language
- English
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Finished February 14, 2015
✔ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams 5★♥ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2 (Audio read by Martin Freeman) (Library audio) (hardcover/kindle own) This book was as good as the first book in the series. The "philosophy" and stuff that the Hitchhiker's Guide Book has to say about the universe is good. I especially liked the few paragraphs about a drink - gin and tonic. "It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N-N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian "chinanto/mnigs" which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond that fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.” The story is good and now I'm even more curious as to what the "Ultimate Question" is to the "Ultimate Answer of life and everything" being 42. So I look forward to reading more. Surprises me that I'm liking this because thus is my first "space travel" books that I've read. I have the first audiobook with Stephen Fry and I really enjoyed it more than the book. It's a bummer that he only did the first book. But Martin Freeman still did a good job with the second book. And I will try the audiobook with Martin in the third book while reading along.
- Medium-paced
Started November 4, 2025 · Finished November 13, 2015
Absolutely love Douglas Adams writing style. Very amusing and a fun story.