Review of 'So long, and thanks for all the fish' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I read this book almost entirely while sick & feverish, passing in and out of sleep, so that probably colors the experience in some way.
This was very short and I was almost inclined not to read it because this year is about big books, baby! But I was choosing between this and something that looked depressing and introspective that I just wasn't in the mood for.
It's the fourth of the Hitchhiker's books, a series I do enjoy. This book has several components: Earth is back, Arthur is interested in a woman named Fenchurch, Ford is doing whatever he's doing, there's a guy who gets rained on all the time, and there's a man who knows about the dolphins.
I particularly enjoyed the idea of the truck driver who is continuously rained on and imagining Wonko the Sane's house.
It's a relatively simple cute romace with some strange existential …
I read this book almost entirely while sick & feverish, passing in and out of sleep, so that probably colors the experience in some way.
This was very short and I was almost inclined not to read it because this year is about big books, baby! But I was choosing between this and something that looked depressing and introspective that I just wasn't in the mood for.
It's the fourth of the Hitchhiker's books, a series I do enjoy. This book has several components: Earth is back, Arthur is interested in a woman named Fenchurch, Ford is doing whatever he's doing, there's a guy who gets rained on all the time, and there's a man who knows about the dolphins.
I particularly enjoyed the idea of the truck driver who is continuously rained on and imagining Wonko the Sane's house.
It's a relatively simple cute romace with some strange existential musings mixed in.
Because I was having a lot of fever dreams, I was experiencing the feeling of when you wake up and realize that the dream world was wrong and the feeling of getting reacquainted with the real world. (For example, I had a dream that I was dealing with the grief of my brother dying, but he has not died.) The characters in this book are having some feelings of dissonance because they remember that the Earth was destoryed, but they are also currently living on it. For that reason, it was a bit of an immersive experience reading this book at this time.
