The title of book I'm about to read in this trilogy of five, is Life, The Universe, and Everything. Its is the sequel to The Resturant at the End of the Universe, Which is the sequel to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Both of those books were very good! The second book however is one of those tv episodes in a series that is quite boring, until the last few minutes where it REALLY advances the plot. The first book was incredible for one of many reasons, and a few not so much... I'll give you the bad stuff first. YOU WILL be confused in the first chapter AND YOU WILL go back and read it after you finish it. It makes almost zero sense until you read the second and third chapter where it puts everything into perspective. The book can also be dull at times, but not for very long.
Some of the reasons why it was amazing is it put the Earth into a bigger sequence of events. A previous machine had determined that the answer to the universe and everything is 42. That machine constructed a new machine to find the QUESTION. That machine was named earth. Earth is sadly blown up minutes before it would have had the answer.
Hopefully the next book will continue the relationship between these two machines and the question. They did say the answer to the life, the universe, and everything is 42. This book title is that question so I'm hoping that the author will continue this story.
I love this series, though I am on "So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish". Enjoy the rest of the book!
ReplyDeleteI think that this sounds like a great book. I was left confused as to how the machine found the answer without knowing the question. Perhaps you could explain this in a later post. Either way it sounds like a great book. (Watch your grammar!)
ReplyDeleteI have one question. Why hasn't anyone told me about this book before? It sound really interesting. I may need to give it a try.
ReplyDeleteThis series seems like it will be enjoyable to read- I might read the first book in the series after finishing my current book. I like how you described that you have to read on to understand what happened in the first chapter. Maybe the author hid some information about the plot in the beginning but it will only become clear after getting to the end of the book. I have one question though- how did the machine find the answer to the question before it determined what the question was?
ReplyDeleteSorry if this got posted multiple times... blogger was erasing the text box when I clicked publish.
The book sounds kind of interesting, but I am probably NEVER going to read another book about pure science, because I read Double Helix, and the book was terrible, I prefer fantasy, mythology fiction, or Dystopian books
ReplyDeleteLike the way you added voice and how you went about writing your post. Very interesting. Also makes me curious about reading this book because I don't read those kind of books very much. Good job!
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