Hardcover, 250 pages
English language
Published June 10, 1981 by Harmony Books.
ust when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore, Douglas Adams presents The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The Time: Infinity The Place: The Universe The Survivors: Arthur Dent (Earthling) - a mild-mannered, out-to-lunch space traveler, searching the cosmos for a decent cup of tea. Ford Prefect (alien) - unflappable researcher for the most successful and useful book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Trillian (earthling) - sexy space cadet who gave Arthur the cold shoulder at a cocktail party; she is now the girl friend of Zaphod Beeblebrox (alien) - two headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe.
This fantastic foursome encounters paranoid androids, existential elevators, improbability drives, and kill-o-zap blasters on an interstellar romp that takes them from a thirty megaton rock concert on Kakrafoon to Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the Universe, where the main dish of the day …
ust when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore, Douglas Adams presents The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The Time: Infinity The Place: The Universe The Survivors: Arthur Dent (Earthling) - a mild-mannered, out-to-lunch space traveler, searching the cosmos for a decent cup of tea. Ford Prefect (alien) - unflappable researcher for the most successful and useful book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Trillian (earthling) - sexy space cadet who gave Arthur the cold shoulder at a cocktail party; she is now the girl friend of Zaphod Beeblebrox (alien) - two headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe.
This fantastic foursome encounters paranoid androids, existential elevators, improbability drives, and kill-o-zap blasters on an interstellar romp that takes them from a thirty megaton rock concert on Kakrafoon to Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the Universe, where the main dish of the day introduces itself and the floor show is doomsday.
How will it all end? Will they discover the origin of the bathtub? Will they find the significance of gin and tonic? Will they find out the question to the answer 42? For the answers to theses and other cosmic questions, climb aboard and Douglas Adams's zany spaceship and get ready to blast off. Take an improbable ride; your table is ready at The Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
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Si vous avez un priori ou faites un rejet de l’humour anglais, passez votre chemin. Fan de l’absurde ou des Monty Python, ce livre est définitivement pour vous. Situations rocambolesques, surréalistes, personnages improbables, univers encore moins possibles, histoire à peine présente, l’ensemble se lit le sourire aux lèvres d’un bout à l’autre, avec quelques soubresauts de rires francs et sonores. Je viens de terminer la lecture mais je serais difficilement capable de raconter l’histoire, loufoque et délirante. Pas transcendant, mais un bon moment de rigolade.
