Volume Four in the Trilogy of Five Hitchhiker -- Bk. 4
Tapa blanda, 187 páginas
Idioma English
Publicado el 13 de Diciembre de 2016 por Pan Books.
There is a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It's not an easy thing to do and Arthur Dent thinks he's the only human who's been able to master this nifty little trick - until he meets Fenchurch, the girl of his dreams. Fenchruch knows how the world could be made a good and happy place. Unfortunately she's forgotten. Convinced that the secret lies within God's Final Message to His Creation, they go in search of it. And, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it.
I have read this book as a teenager in a village and now re-reading it while knowing London better and have lived by Islington, makes me feel like I understand the ironic part of the narrative better. It's the wholesomely romantic part that reads like fiction.
I did feel, with Life, the Universe and Everything, that the series was starting to lose it's way somewhat. With this book, though, Adams gets solidly back on track.
It's very different to what has gone before, and this is very much to the book's advantage. Arthur is more of a character this time around and there's visible plot.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is still very much a Hitchhiker's book, but it also demonstrates the value in a series taking the occasional left turn.
