Douglas Adams: Mostly Harmless

Pan Macmillan

Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams...

Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up.

Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter.

There's nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away, Arthur goes after her, determined to save her from the horrors of the universe.

After all – he's encountered most of them before...

Volume five in the trilogy of five.

Sci-fi, fantasy Novel

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All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it`s pretty damn complicated in the first place.

Philosophy

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof [is] to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Chapter 12, Page 135

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Education

Protect me from knowing what I don`t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don`t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

Page 111

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

Chapter 12

Funny

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Chapter 1