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I just finished the last book and hated the ending. gonk

WHY DID IT HAVE TO END? AND IN SUCH A WAY? crying

I recently bought the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, and will reply once I read it...

I'm working through the Ultimate HH guide. I just started the 3rd book. I love them so far, so like the others I'll be back in about a month.

Ah, I'm on the last book now. Too bad I have practically no time to read and I breezed through the first four and all of a sudden, am taking a long to read this last book. So again, I'll get back to you.

But first!

What about you're favorite Hitchhiker's moment so far. I have way too many, but here's one...

Now bear with me, it's kind of long, but it's in Chapter 1 of Life, the Universe, and Everything, so if you haven't gotten there yet and you don't want to know, don't look. It's not really a spoiler though, but here's a warning.

*Not Quite A Spoiler*
He was returning to his cave just a little after dusk when he became aware of lights flashing eerily through the clouds. He turned and stared, with hope suddenly clambering through his heart. Rescue. Escape. The castaway's impossible dream- a ship.
And as he watched, as he stared in wonder and excitement, a long silver ship descended through the warm eventing air, quietly, without fuss, its long legs unlocking in a smooth ballet of technology.
It alighted gently on the ground, and what little hum it had generated died away, as if lulled by the evening calm.
A ramp extended itself.
Light streamed out.
A tall figure appeared silhouetted in the hatchway. It walked down the ramp and stood in front of Arthur.
"You're a jerk, Dent," it said simply.
It was alien, very alien. It had a peculiar alien tallness, a peculiar alien flattened head, peculiar slitty little alien eyes, extravagantly draped golden robes with a peculiarly alien collar design, and pale gray green alien skin that had that lustous sheen about it that most gray green races can acquire only with plenty of exercise and very expensive soap.
Arthur boggled at it.
It gazed levelly at him.
Arthur's first sensations of hope and trepidation had instantly been overwhelmed by astonishment, and all sorts of thoughts were battling for the use of his vocal cords at this moment.
"Whh...?" he said.
"Bu...hu...uh..." he added.
"Ru...ra...wah...who?" he managed finally to say and lapsed into a frantic kind of silence. He was feeling the effects of not having said anything to anybody for as long as he could remember.
The alien creature frowned briefly and consulted what appeared to be some species of clipboard that it was holding in its thin and spindly alien hand.
"Arthur Dent? it said.
Arthur nodded helplessly.
"Arthur Philip Dent?" pursued the alien in a kind of efficient yap.
"Er...er...yes...er...er," confirmed Arthur.
"You're a jerk," repeated the alien, "a complete kneebiter."

(Then later on.....)

One day he was walking through the fields humming a ravishing tune he'd heard recently when a silver spaceship descended from the sky and landed right in front of him.
A hatchway opened, a ramp extended and a tall gray green alien marched out and approached him.
"Arthur Phili..." it said, then glanced sharply at him, and down at his clipboard. It frowned. It looked up at him again.
"I've done you before, haven't I?" it said.


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I definately love Douglas Adams.

I know; rather a let-down isn't it...I kept expecting more.

I know it seemed that way, but it wasn't. It was just that you expected something far mroe...explosive? Can't think of the word. But it was like inflating a balloon really full and then suddenly just letting it go...

I just finished reading the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
So, it would help if you said whether you are referring to the first book, or the whole series.

A smilie says a thousand words.

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