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[khaosworks]

Part of the reason why I never bothered to read Mostly Harmless (the last book in the increasingly inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy) was because someone had told me that it ended on a downer. Never one for caring about spoilers, I flipped through the book, and sure enough the ending was somewhat... less than satisfying. Well, for me, anyway.

So it was with great trepidation that I listened to the Quintessential and final phase of the radio series, getting up to the last fit and gearing for the downer...

And bless 'em, they gave me a happy ending(s). I like happy endings. Does anyone know if this was the ending Adams intended but never got to do?

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[haloumi.livejournal.com]

No idea, I'm afraid, but I did find 'Mostly Harmless' to be a fairly unsatisfying book.

In fact, while I own all the others and both Dirk Gentlys, I do not own a copy of 'Mostly Harmless'.

Have you read 'The Salmon of Doubt'? It's a strange pastiche but the parts of the book that they include do make me wonder what the final book would have been like.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard any of the new ones...

The impression I got, from the book and various things I picked up at the time, was that this was DNA's "I do not want to write another Hitch-hiker book EVER" book. He was tired of it, he was bored with it, by all accounts he hated the actual writing process anyway, and he was hoping to hack off the fans enough that they would let him do something else.

I hated it. As far as I am concerned, the series ends with "So Long.."