- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; First Edition edition (23 Nov 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330284983
- ISBN-13: 978-0330284981
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,563,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The looniest of the lot."
--Time
"A MADCAP ADVENTURE . . . ADAMS'S WRITING TEETERS ON THE FRINGE OF INSPIRED LUNACY."
--United Press International
"The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible."
--The Boston Globe
--Time
"A MADCAP ADVENTURE . . . ADAMS'S WRITING TEETERS ON THE FRINGE OF INSPIRED LUNACY."
--United Press International
"The most ridiculously exaggerated situation comedy known to created beings . . . Adams is irresistible."
--The Boston Globe
"From the Paperback edition." --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Four
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved this book for it's basic simplicity, yet unfathambly complex story. It made a change to the usual space trips of the previouse three books, and i think if it had continued along the same track it could easily have become dull. It wasn't so fast moving but the humour was superb and it still leaves you something to think about to lifes complexities. I just loved Gods final words - a great way to end it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The charge levelled at this book that it is unlike the rest of the Hitch Hikers books is true. It isn't like them much at all. What it retains are the best features; Douglas Adams's fantastically complex yet simple (yes I know it's a complete contradiction) writing and the strong characters that have been built up from Earth's armageddon. His style of embellishment makes you want to read great passages of the book again, partly because you didn't quite understand it the first time you read it, partly because the ideas contained within the writing are thoroughly mind-mangling when first read and deceptively simple when you figure out what the hell is going on, but mostly because the actual language he uses flows around your head like the psychedelic blobs in a lava lamp as they are being poured down a transparent plughole. It (the fourth book in the series) is wonderfully strange, admirably barmy, and surprisingly innovative for sci-fi in bringing in one or two romantic scenes that make you wish you were in them and not next to a sick bucket. This is one of the only books I have read that has made my face try to express confusion, surprise, wonder, and laugh out loud all at the same time. Anyone who complains that it is not exactly the same as "the good old days" of Hitch Hikers has no imagination or soul.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I liked this book, as the comedy was good(like in the other books in the 'trilogy'). However, I felt a bit disorientated. The style is quite different from the previous books. It is altogether more serious, dealing with love, which, when involved with Arthur Dent, is slightly unsettling(especially the scene with the flying; you'll now what I mean when you read it. Suffice to say that it seems a little out of character for bland, unexciting Mr Dent). I would have been more happy if it had continued with Arthur, Ford, Trillian, Zaphod and Marvin all travelling across the Universe in the Heart of Gold. It would have been like Star Trek, only funnier.
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A kind of flat love story.
So, I don't like this one. For me, Hitchhikers charm lies in the fact that it's just some guy randomly stumbling through the galaxy gaping at things. This book isn't like that. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Emma Thompson
Hitch Hikers Guide, book 4
My husband lost this book and so I looked on Amazon and found it easily, the condition is excellent and as he had all the others he only needed to replace this one, 'So Long and... Read more
Published 6 months ago by SueMcDoo
One Star is one too many!
Very, very poor service and unable to fulfil a simple request or help me return the incorrect product that was mis-advertised and mis-sold. Read more
Published 9 months ago by A. J. Cumbo
another brilliant book
This book was slightly different from the first three books, set on earth mostly instead of space. This changes the pace of the series and gives us an insight into arthur dents... Read more
Published 10 months ago by C. L. Fraser
brilliant
the best book in the whole of the pan galactic universe, it's the funniest thing I've ever read about dolphins, mmegaaaaaaaaaa
Published 12 months ago by n
Underrated fourth book of the trilogy.
Space, romance and comedy.
Untouchable, no matter how many try to create something similar.
Untouchable, no matter how many try to create something similar.
Published 20 months ago by D. Browne
A whole new meaning to the word 'trilogy'
Maybe not my favourite of the series but great all the same. Same humour and randomness expected from Douglas Adams, just seemed not quite right with no Trillian and Zaphoid. Read more
Published on 26 Dec 2009 by Tasha
So Long, and Tanks for All the Fish
I have read all Douglas Adams's books and every one has provided endless laughter... and astonishing imagination. One of the best authors EVER!
Published on 18 Dec 2009 by S B DEMPSTER
Arthur Dent has a day off
I'm actually a bit at a loss as to what I think about this one... and indeed what it was meant to be about. The fourth entry in the series is like nothing that has gone before. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2009 by J. R. Johnson-Rollings
brilliant
I must have read a few thousand non-fiction books so far. There is no question that 'so long and thanks for all the fish' is the best. Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2009 by Brian Newham
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