Thanks for all the Fish (H2G2 DARE Review part 4)

         Hello again, my fellow readers, and welcome back to the only blog that is constantly being held at window-point by an angry superintendent. I am your host, Aaron Hilomen, and today at the Reader in Yellow, we've got some bittersweet news. This is the final part of the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4-part DARE review series! While this means we must bid farewell to this wonderful novel, it also means that we will return next week with a new novel on the horizon. Now, without further ado, let us begin the EVALUATION.

You are a fool if you believe I will heed this advice.

         As we've surely went over before (If you think we haven't, read the previous articles, ya moron) H2G2 is a Sci-Fi novel about well, Life, the Universe, and just about Everything. In all seriousness (or just as much as we can spare at the moment) Douglas Adams wrote the novel with the intent of making people laugh. Be it at the sheer improbability of the plotline, the relatability of the characters, or just silly minor details, H2G2 was intended to be a comedy through and through. And that, I believe, it achieves just perfectly. There are a few moments where the novel shows its age, however, but as a satire of other Sci-Fi of its time, most of this can be ignored as just some cool retro stuff.

        The main flaws of the novel, in my opinion, come from the prose. Sometimes there are moments where things could clearly be shown and not told, but aren't, usually for the sake of a joke. Sometimes, this works well, other times, like when the novel tries taking itself seriously, it does not. Alongside this, there are times where it tries to be silly due to its randomness and simply leaves the reader confused. Fortunately, these moments are few and far-in-between, however the ones that stuck out the most in my opinion were the scene with the Space Tea Dispenser thing (I've re-read that paragraphe multiple times and still can't wrap my head around it) and the point in the novel when the character Zaphod reveals that he cut out part of his own brain. However, for the latter, this is very much in character, and can thus still be laughed at. Aside from these flaws, you could consider this novel one of the greatest yet written.

I can never truly understand SPACE TEA.

        In summary, despite its flaws, Douglas Adams's novel "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" may well be the galaxy's finest (So long as you don't read the sequels. Those were meh, in my book). Now, it is time to bid farewell to the novel, and hope that the next one I choose will gain the approval of Superintendent Chris D. Funk so that I may keep my kneecaps for another month.