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Joe the culpit lives in King City after an period living elsewhere for training. With coming back he returns to the city of his ex-girlfriend and his too little number of friends. But, he returns with a cat in a bucket. The cat is called Cat and he can do anything if he just gets his right injections. With his cat Joe can pull of jobs he couldn’t before and sure enough he runs into trouble the second he returns to King City.
Dirk Gently is a detective, but not some ordinary detective. He seeks answers in the fact that things are connected with each other in an almost unexplainable way, a metaphysical way, or as Dirk says it: in an holistic way. So try to explain how these following components fit together in one story: a missing cat, two ghosts, a dodo, an Electric Monk, a professor, an ex university student, a greedy detective, detecting and triangulating vectors of interconnectedness of all things and the saving of the human race from total extinction. It’s a tough job, even for Dirk together with his college mate Richard, but hey, somebody has to do it.
Guy Montag is a fireman; not a fireman that extinguishes fires, but one that ignites them. He lives in a time (somewhere in the future) when having books is illegal. When the people who own them are found out, the fire brigade is being called to burn down the house together with the books. Guy is happy with his job until on one call a woman refuses to leave her books and burns together with them. On that occasion Guy grabs a book with him; there must be something in books if people don’t want to leave them even when that means their death. From that moment on his entire life turns upside down and he has to make some difficult choices and decisions.
I was totally impressed by the first book The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. This second book in the series takes of where the first book leaves us. The crew was heading to the restaurant at the end of the universe, because they felt like having not eaten for decades, and that is where they will land, but…there is always a but…only after Marvin the depressed robot is left behind several times, Zaphod is taken on a ride to infinity by his great-grandfather he summoned to get some information and getting more than he has bargained for in the process.
Finally at the restaurant they meet with a cow who wants to be eaten and is making a great effort to show off his gorgeous shoulders and ribs and they meet with the end of the universe. What is left after seeing that? Well, a visit to the ruler of the universe of course, to finally get the big question to the answer 42.
Joanna, Walter and their two kids just moved to Stepford. This little town is friendly, wives are devoted to housework and their families. Nothing wrong….only, the strange thing is, it seems that the wives haven’t got time for anything else. Another strange thing is that there is only one men’s club and there is nothing for women to do. There used to be, but it is said that the women lost interest. Joanna’s suspicion that something strange is going on grows in the time she lives there and comes to a climax when her best (and only) friend Bobbie goes through “the change” too.
Just before planet Earth is being destroyed alien Ford Prefect, who has lived on earth for fifteen years as an out-of-work-actor, saves human Arthur Dent, who already is having a bad day because his house is scheduled to be demolished that morning. Reason for destruction: the planet has to give way for an intergalactic freeway. After they are picked up in lose space just before they run out of oxygen, a journey through space and time begins with help of totally different individuals (my favorite: Marvin the always depressed robot) and the hitchhiker’s guide. They are forced to work together to survive their ride through the galaxy in a spaceship that runs on improbability numbers.
