The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Book 2) Kindle Edition

Author Douglas Adams brings us the next adventure in his Hitchhikers Guild to the Galaxy trilogy with the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Picking up where book one left off Author Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, and Zaphod are being hunted by the Zogon who demolished Earth. He chases them until the Heart of Gold, the ship that Zaphod stole vanishes. Zaphod and Marvin the robot find themselves on the planet where the Hitchhikers Guild to the Galaxy are published and that the building that they're in is being taken from that planet to the Frogstar world B. All this thanks to Zaphod's great great Gradfather. While on the Forgstar planet Zaphod is taken to the Total Perspective Vortex where he is shown that he is the most important person in the universe. After they find Zaniwoop, Zaphod asks the Heart of Gold's computer to take to the nearest Restaurant which happens to me Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. This is a great book and it's fun rereading it and it makes me look forward to reading the next book in the trilogy, Life the Universe and Everything. I highly recommend this series to all science fiction fans.

Absolutely loved it!!!

This book should be read after the "The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", due to the fact that "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" starts where the previously mentioned book ends. That is, with the two survivors to the Earth's destruction, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, traveling along Trillian, Marvin the robot and Zaphod Beeblebrox in the "Heart of gold", a stolen Improbability Drive ship.If you read this book, you will go along with our friends in their adventures, for example when they visit Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, or when they escape certain destruction in a stuntship used by rockstars. You will also learn the real meaning of "dying for a cup of tea", and have a chance to eat meat that wants to be eaten. Of course, Marvin will continue giving you lessons in pessimism, and Zaphod will go on being "so weird that he should be in movies".I liked this book, but I didn't love it nearly as much as "The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". What is more, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" doesn't have a clear ending, and I find some fault in that. Of course, I am more than ready to read the next book in the series, but that is not the point.On the whole, I don't recommend "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" to those that haven't read "The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", due to the fact that they won't enjoy it so much. Notwithstanding that, I do recommend this book as entertaining reading material for those already addicted to Douglas Adams quirky sense of humour. It is not perfect, but it is more than good enough to enjoy :)Belen Alcat

.... With more of the same.While not so good as a stand alone (you'll be lost in time & space without the background of Book 1), this second in the umpteen-part, increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Trilogy tries even harder than the first to laser your funny bone.Seems that the thing we call (ultimately to be used-to-call) Earth is really just a mighty big supercomputer, built to work out the ultimate question to the ultimate answer, 42. Like all expensive software however, just before it actually does whatever it's supposed to do, it crashes - in this case due to the hacker Vogons and their total annihilation programme. Unlike your regular hard drive, two bits escape to byte another day, and we continue their story.In one of the many funny lines from the book, Zaphod Beeblebrox remarks, "I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis". This book is just as hip.Our heroes are aboard their Improbability Driven spaceship, when Arthur Dent happens to tie up all the computer circuits just when the Vogons are launching an attack. Zaphod decides its time to see dead people, and with a strange twist, he and miserable Marvin, the depressed computer, disappear, while Arthur takes a tea break.Zaphod materializes elsewhere and immediately starts looking for the man who rules the Universe, while Marvin continues to depress and be depressed. In my humble opinion, Marvin is the star of this book, but I digress.After having his sense of perspective sorely tested, Zaphod improbably conjures a happy reunion, although this leaves him sadly out of pocket. Deciding that they should find the nearest place to eat, their ship's computer zaps them to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.From this half-way point, the book takes off on a fresh tangent of humor, floor shows, loud rock bands, talking meat, and wicked vehicles - that is, until the universe ends.Then the humor starts all over again.A very worthy follow up to the famous first.Amanda Richards, March 7, 2005

The book had all the parts i remember from both the Tv version and the Movie version, it was a nice read, couldn't get into it that much but read it all the same.Michael.

The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy を読み終えたので、この楽しみはやめられない！と、続編を購入。期待を裏切らない面白さです。

It’s K 👌

It's the kind of funny that tickles the corners of your lips, the back of your eyes and, strangely, the inside of your right elbow.

Written by a genius, started as a radio show, then spawned a TV show, and then became the second greatest book ever written. Just buy it. Your life will be better, you'll suddenly be aware of all the jokes that have gone over your head you by all your life.