2011 Reading #94: Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
91. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.
92. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams.
93. Vögelein by Jane Irwin and Jeff Berndt.
94. Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams. I was warned that I might find this depressing; apparently Adams himself considered it a fairly bleak book. I have to say, though, that despite all the book's maundering about the pointless meandering of the character's lives, there was something sort of giddy and gleeful about the whole thing; Arthur's complete loss of patience with Ford Prefect and his shenanigans, the weird probability-split Trillians and their twinned career despair, Arthur's completely unexpected daughter Random and her incurable disaffection. Perhaps I'm just in a mood, but on the whole I found the book weirdly satisfying, and--while not without its flaws--meatier than the rest of the series in many ways. Shame about Fenchurch, though.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
91. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf.
92. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams.
93. Vögelein by Jane Irwin and Jeff Berndt.
94. Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams. I was warned that I might find this depressing; apparently Adams himself considered it a fairly bleak book. I have to say, though, that despite all the book's maundering about the pointless meandering of the character's lives, there was something sort of giddy and gleeful about the whole thing; Arthur's complete loss of patience with Ford Prefect and his shenanigans, the weird probability-split Trillians and their twinned career despair, Arthur's completely unexpected daughter Random and her incurable disaffection. Perhaps I'm just in a mood, but on the whole I found the book weirdly satisfying, and--while not without its flaws--meatier than the rest of the series in many ways. Shame about Fenchurch, though.