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Pages read: 0-214Douglas Adams, the author of this book and a book I have blogged about before (the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) has an interesting and unique way of writing this book. His humorous and sarcastic tones really make this book fun to read. Science fiction is a very hard genre to write a book in, and sci-fi books that are too verbose or have unnecessary words with very little humour in them can make readers feel bored. I guess I never feel bored reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe because Douglas Adams injects the right amount of humour and surrealism into a book filled with hard to understand futuristic contraptions and societies.
Another thing unique to the author's writing style is he portrays his characters. He has characters that are both believable and unbelievable and writes about them from his point of view. For instance, a very arrogant and self-confident character Zaphod Beeblebrox will be written about with the author's opinion on him. Like when Zaphod claims he is too important to be killed, Douglas Adams will add his opinion on the statement, like "...said Zaphod like the diva he is". I think that adds something to his writing. His interjections help me understand the characters and their emotions throughout the story. As this story has a very complex storyline, it helps a lot to have the characters, who are going through difficult situations, explained and analysed.
Finally, the author of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe does a very nice job of taking concepts from the story and breaking them down. Which not all sci-fi books do, making them hard to understand and read. When Douglas Adams introduces a new and confusing element to the story, like how to correctly define things that might happen/will happen/have happened/are happening all at the same time. I really like how he explained this, but incorporated it into a part of the story, so it wasn't an author's note, but it just went along with the flow of the story. When I first picked up this book, I was expecting it to be very confusing because the back mentioned some topics that I was not familiar with. But I am very happy to have picked up this book and to be reading it.
NIce blog. I find it so much easier to read a funny book. Thanks for the recommendation.
ReplyDeleteWhat made you pick this book up and start reading it? By already reading the title I knew it was going to be sci-fi. Usually, the humor that I read in books don't make me laugh, maybe a slight smile, but not really all that laughable. I'd like to see if this book would actually make me laugh a little. Did this book make you chuckle at some point?
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great book. Douglas Adams sounds like a good author. I can also agree with you how many science fiction books can get pretty boring. When authors add humor to a book, it keeps be reading and I won't be bored. Does Douglas Adams only write science fiction?
ReplyDeleteIt sounds great that you also expressed your feelings about the author not just the book. You did a great job in describing the characters and your opinion on why the author makes his characters like this. I liked how you expressed your true feelings instead of just lying about your opinion of the book.- Thanks for the Recommendation
ReplyDeleteThis book seems really interesting! Sci-fi books aren't really the types of books I read but when you said the author injects humour into it, it got my attention. I love books that contain humour in them so I hope I can read this book!
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ReplyDeleteWhat were some of the topics that you were not familiar with and how have you fared with it?
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