Last month I read Douglas Adams’s entire Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, in the tome-like form of The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The first book, the original Hitchhiker’s Guide, was very good – not as amazingly hilarious as it had been worked up to be, but good nonetheless. The second book, Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Galaxy?), is good too, but the series sort of goes downhill from there. The final book is particularly disappointing, with Douglas Adams’ galaxy falling apart into some sort of nonsensical mix-up of time and space and an extremelly unsatisfying conclusion for the main characters.