Experience Culinary Delights at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Customer: I absolutely loved the first series and found it very hooking. But this one, well, not so much. There is definitely humour in this book, as expected. But maybe there was too much happening?

India on Nov 06, 2023

Mr. Redmond: Fun and delightful novel for the whole family.

Canada on Nov 02, 2023

Neasa O'Rourke: Ordered in evening and arrived before midday next day.

Nice edition of book.

United Kingdom on Jul 14, 2023

Andrew Herd: A genius

United Kingdom on Jul 13, 2023

Elizabeth Cox: I absolutely loved it! This is a brilliant series! I love these characters! This is a must read series! I can’t wait for the next book!

United States on Jun 24, 2023

zpm: Let the naysayers say their nays. Sure, it’s no Hitchikers, but nothing was before that book, and nothing will be again. Unless we’re all living in a loop. In that case, Hitchikers will, eventually, be Hitchikers, again, er, for the first time.

I read it to my 1- and 3-year-old a little each day or so at bedtime. Maybe I changed some words and skipped a few bits, but they could tell it was pretty silly, for a more a grown-up book than they’re used to.

Bottom line: It’s worth a read, which is a fair bit better than any of us should be saying about a lot of what’s written these days.

Including book reviews. 🙃

United States on Jun 23, 2023

Ricardo Jasso MoedanoRicardo Jasso Moedano: The very first paragraphs of this volume had me in stitches, but my tittilating state lasted only from chapters 1 to 6, and then I gasped in astonishment at how evanescent the jocularity of this book turned out. I trudged on til chapter 22, hankering for yet more batty occurrences, yet all that followed after the frogfighters bombing of the Guide tower lacked the sparkle of the beginning of the story. Or, perhaps, by now I wanted to tread along a coherent storyline, rather than just having various nonsensical contraptions described (like the glasses that went black before a sign of danger, in order to keep him who wore them from looking at anything that might scare him), as well as a series of glimpses of bizarre environments where the characters appear at, only to relate goofy anecdotes concerning alien species and their queer customs.

While I jumped off the vessel bound to clash with the sun, not caring a bit for what happened to the guys aboard (or even clear on who these were), I nevertheless enjoyed the tone of the novel, since its kind of humour is consonant with that of ALF (remember the furry bloke that crash-landed on the Tanner's house in the NBC show of the same...

United States on Jul 18, 2016

Teddy Kyle: I'm going to assume that since you're reading this review, you've already read the previous volume in the series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This book is a continuation from the first, so if you're new to the series, go back and read Hitchhiker before reading this one.

This book follows the hapless, easily bewildered Arthur Dent and his wacky companions across the galaxy as they somehow manage to get themselves into an ever-increasing amount of trouble. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, like the first book, is full of twists and surprises. Douglas Adams never misses a chance to make playful, subtle jabs at art, music, politics, culture, entertainment, and... restaurants. The book is refreshingly lighthearted, brilliantly creative, wonderfully irreverent, and above all - tons of fun. The wit in this book frequently made me grin, and even made me laugh audibly a few times.

If you enjoyed Hitchhiker, you'll love this book.

United States on Mar 28, 2016

Michaela Anderl: Dies ist eine ausdrückliche Warnung davor, dieses Buch in der Öffentlichkeit zu lesen. Durch unvorhergesehen auftretende Absurditäten kann es zu höchst unpassenden Zeiten zu Veränderungen in der Gesichtsmuskulatur kommen, angefangen von einem dämlichen Grinsen bis hin zu nicht mehr zu stoppenden Kicheranfällen. Schon die Einleitung entlockt einem den ersten Schmunzler:

"There is a theory which states that if ever
anyone discovers exactly what the Universe
is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced be something
even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states
that this has already happened."

Nun, diesen Verdacht hatten wir doch schon lange, überhaupt nachdem der letzte überlebende männliche Erdenbürger, Arthur Dent, gleich zu Beginn den Bordcomputer lahm legt, indem er ihn mit seiner Bestellung von englischem Tee restlos überfordert. Hach, diese Briten! Infolge dessen ist Zaphod Beeblebrox' Raumschiff samt Besatzung schutzlos einem Angriff der Vogonen ausgeliefert und was macht der Expräsident des Universums in so einem Fall? Logisch, er zitiert mittels Seance den Geist seines...

Germany on Jul 12, 2009

Amanda Richards: .... 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...

United States on Mar 07, 2005