So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
by Douglas Adams
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Author: Douglas AdamsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-26
ISBN: 0345479963
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Del Rey
Book Reviews of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Book Review: An interesting book that does not disappoint.
Summary: 5 Stars
So Long and Thanks for All The fish is an interesting book. by writing about the universe, Douglas Adams gives himself plenty of room to make up anything to put in the story because the characters do not need to abide by any laws of nature, physics, or any other hindering rules that prevent the entertaining, but slightly confusing, plot twists that give him his unique stye of writing. Like the other books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, the plot follows Arthur Dent on his adventures through the universe. Adams introduces some new characters, and retains some old ones. Adams' sense of humor carries on into this book..
In So Long and Thanks for All the Fish the story starts out with the protagonist, Arthur Dent, being back on Earth. Arthur is very confused because he had spent the last eight years of his life believing that the Earth was destroyed, but he is perfectly fine with thinking that those horrible years were just a bad dream. For the first time in a long time, Arthur is happy. He is on his home planet and has a girlfriend, Fenchurch. But then his life takes a sharp turn for disappointment when one of his old companions, Ford Prefect, arrives with a giant robot on a large, silver spaceship. Fenchurch, Ford, and Arthur set out to find God's Final Message of Explanation with an emotionally depressed robot named Marvin.
Douglas Adams expresses the theme that you cannot know everything about something. Whenever one of his characters thinks that they understand something they get completely and utterly proved wrong. It shows that becoming to cocky can be a bad idea. In the book, Arthur Dent doesn't even try to understand what goes on around him for fear of being wrong.
The most likely audience that would enjoy this book would be adults, but I would recommend it to anybody with a sense of humor. The plot takes a different track than Adams' other books. Some parts of the book were quite confusing, but still the story remains clear and easy to follow. Overall, this book shows good writing and humor, and an interesting plot. I give it 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Summary of So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth?s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker?s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.God only knows what it all means. Fortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. But since it?s light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded by souvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a ride to the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. But what else is new?
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