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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams Book Review

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Review Summaries
"More zany adventures with a wonderful cast of characters: Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin the manically depressed robot, and more. With the stolen ship 'The Heart of Gold' the team seeks out 'the man that rules the universe' and the question that matches the answer to the meaning of the life, the universe and everything - which is 42 by the way."
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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Plotlets: - dimension travel - exploring a wondrous planet or phenomena - generally friendly contact with alien(s) - colonizing/homesteading another planet - preventing an ecological disaster
Parody Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - long-lived adults
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some

Setting
Spaceship setting: - alien spaceship - really, really giant spaceship/station
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only) - a moderate amount of scientific explanation
Sex in book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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